Lee Krasner’s “Untitled,” alternative study for mural studioA, WNYC (1941).

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Ogunquit museum shows Krasner’s work

Krasner’s serious engagement with abstraction began in 1937 when she enrolled in New York’s Hofmann School of the Fine Arts. From the late 1930s until her marriage to painter Jackson Pollock in 1945, she developed an artistic vocabulary that would be sustained throughout her career. SEE MORE
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Historic buildings live on

Not long ago—well, I guess that just because I remember it doesn't mean it wasn't long ago—Vinalhaven’s downtown was an architectural wonderland, lorded over by three Second Empire Victorian structures, each three stories, and a fourth building, marginally more magnificent, but lacking the Victorian’s mansard. This fourth edifice was the… SEE MORE
Christa Thorpe

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Christa Thorpe brings global perspective to Bremen

To connect with others is a deeply human experience, and Christa Thorpe has been fostering those connections her whole life through roles as teacher, community development coordinator at Island Institute, school committee member, and chairwoman of a town broadband committee. SEE MORE

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‘Unbridged’ Island Reader published

For almost 20 years, The Island Reader has featured the work of residents living on Maine’s unbridged islands. Each edition, published annually by Maine Seacoast Mission, contains a range of stories, prose, art, and photographs from a wide variety of island residents and is also edited by islanders. The recently… SEE MORE
Honorees, from left: Beth Ahearn, Carol Wishcamper, and Rena Newell hold baskets woven by Richard Silliboy, vice chief of the Mi’kmaq Nation during Nihkaniyane on July 11. PHOTO: EMMA DAVIS/MAINE MORNING STAR

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Tribal advocates honored at Abbe Museum

By EMMA DAVIS/MAINE MORNING STAR MaineMorningStar.com The Wabanaki Nations embody what Carol Wishcamper characterized as patient persistence. Wishcamper, a founding supporter of the Wabanaki Alliance, was one of three people honored July 11 at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor at Nihkaniyane, the second year that members of the alliance… SEE MORE