Acadia: Nature as Teacher

Huge thanks to pianist Dana Polojarvi for his artfully beautiful musical addition to the artists opening on Sunday, August 14th. It was the topping on the cake!

Writer’s Reading

Sunday, August 21st

A very well attended beautiful and powerful reading in circle by Tom Moore, Beatrix Gates, Emily Peake (read by Daksha Baumann) and Robert Shetterly.

Daksha Baumann and Tom Moore

Discussions after the reading.

And the artists and guests arrive….

A Feast for the Eyes and Tummy!

A HUGE Thank you to Diana Coit for coordinating all the food and drink and to all the incredible volunteers who contributed these succulent delights and astoundingly gorgeous flowers.

Artists Opening

Sunday, August 14th

Let the gala begin!!

Beatrix Gates

I decided to go to Acadia once a week in May and June to let it happen on the way to some poems. I wanted to go once hiking was possible and before my usual teaching commitment in the Goddard MFA out west in early July. I chose to go to a few places I knew, and some I had never been to before. I kept the run regular, shared or solo, and took pictures to fix the days in my body.

I didn’t know then that I would need to write the piece, “For Orlando: Make Beautiful in Maine,” or that when I went hiking with a Maine childhood friend in the murderous week of Orlando, it would be the one day I could breathe fully and walk with all pores open, both to the numbness of sorrow and the relief of breath.

BG from Acadia, Flying Mountain, 7/16

Valley Cove on Somes Sound below Flying Mountain, 7/16

BG from Acadia, east side of Eliot Mountain, 5/11

from Acadia, west side of Eliot Mountain, 5/11

BG from Acadia, Hadlock Pond trails, 6/14/16, week of murders in Orlando

Upper Hadlock Pond

crossing

Lower Hadlock Pond:

BG from Acadia, Azalea Garden, 5/11

from Acadia, Thuya Garden 5/11

from Acadia, Asticou Terrace, 5/11

from Acadia, Northeast Harbor between Thuya Garden and Asticou Terrace, 5/11

BG from Acadia, Homans Trail, 5/4/16

descent, Homans Trail, 5/11

The Sanctuary Walls have come alive with the final touches!

Abstract landscape PAINTING: BEC POOLE, Portrait of Terry Tempest Williams: Rob Shetterly… Ms. Williams will read with the other writers the following Sunday, Aug. 21 at 2:00.

Susan Barrett Merrill

Galen Davis

Rebecca Raye, Sherry Streeter

Zuzonna Huot, Galen Davis, Elena Kubler, Alida Bauman, Patricia Wheeler

Zuzonna Huot, silverpoint assemblage

Patricia Wheeler, ACADIA Dance

Rebecca Raye

adding finishing touches to the exhibit for Sunday opening.

…and more…

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The time has come…..

Daksha Bauman, Gail Page and Galen Davis preparing the Gallery Within for the ACADIA: Nature as Teacher Exhibition opening on Sunday, August 14, 2:00 to 5:00

Bea Gates with her poetry and rough drafts. Bea is one of the writers who will read on Sunday, Aug. 21 at 2:00

Rebecca Raye with one of her creatures for the show

Bea and Rebecca

Zuzonna Huot getting ready to hang the work.

Galen Davis holds her painting during the beginning of the installation

BIG THANKS go to Galen and Zuzonna for the fabulous work they have done organizing the show, writing press, installing etc. etc. it is an endless job! They have been stellar!

and then there’s Daksha. She has been working on her Cobble it Together walkway at the entrance to the Sanctuary. we shall all have the gift of this beauty each time we enter. She is so multi-talented and has given freely of her time to keep the place running smoothly and to make it more beautiful. many thanks to her daughters who have assisting in creating this unique path.