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Aug 27

CORRECTION: Open Mic Night is this Thursday, Aug. ***29*** at 6pm.

Come join us for the last Open Mic Night at Hewnoaks this summer (after this, this event will return to the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library for the rest of the year).

Sign up for a five minute performance slot or just come to listen. Read a poem or a story of yours or recite one you love. Sing a song, tell a joke or an anecdote. The floors is yours. Five minutes. All yours.

Co-sponsored by the Chartlotte Hobbs Memorial Library.

Jul 29

Here's our fabulous lineup for Wild Light 2024! 🌟

📅 Saturday, August 10
⏰ 3-7PM
📍 Hewnoaks, 68 Hewnoaks Rd. Lovell, ME 04051

Join us for an afternoon of al fresco sensory delights! Enjoy music by @beatboxpoet (Hewnoaks '24) and @asha_tamirisa (Hewnoaks '22), and dance by @littlehousedance (Hewnoaks '23).

Our pop-up exhibition, curated by @lightsoutgallery, features incredible flat and sculptural art by:

Cushman Amesbury
@mayatihtiyasart (Hewnoaks '23)
Jon Caterina (Hewnoaks '22)
@louisa_s_donelson
@annikaearley (Hewnoaks '18)
@elanaadler (Hewnoaks '24)
Joe Ferigno
@shainagates (Hewnoaks '23)
@theaj.hart
@ashleypage.studio (Hewnoaks '21)
@jay___stern (Hewnoaks '24)

We look forward to seeing you at our historic lakeside campus for an unforgettable frolic! 🌲🎨✨

#WildLight2024
#Hewnoaks
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#ArtistResidency
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#MaineEvents
#PopUpExhibition
#LiveMusic
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#CreativeMaine

Jul 26

🌟 Wild Light Arts Festival & Lawn Party — Saturday, August 10, 3-7 PM 🌟
📍 Hewnoaks Artist Residency, 68 Hewnoaks Rd, Lovell, ME

In just two weeks, join us for the fourth annual Wild Light, co-presented by @hewnoaks, @greaterlovelllandtrust, and @lightsoutgallery.

This year’s curation explores the uncanny, sometimes unsettling, but always awe-inspiring power of nature. Artists in our rural residency program, far from city lights and traffic, often remark on the mystical frequencies that rise up when the white noise fades. This show brings that experience to life.

Enjoy a pop-up exhibition featuring work by Maine’s most compelling contemporary artists, an exciting dance performance set to sound art, live music, and community vibes.

Refreshments will be served, along with food by @doghausbites. Bring blankets and camp chairs! Admission is free – but please leave pets at home.

#WildLightFestival #ArtInNature #Hewnoaks #GreaterLovellLandTrust #LightsOutGallery #MaineArtists #NatureInspires

Jul 18

✨ Hewnoaks + Indigo Arts Alliance kick off our 3rd season in partnership!⁠ ⁠ Generously funded by the Haney-Leighton Fund, this residency program is offered exclusively to Indigo Arts Alliance artists-in-residence alumni.⁠ ⁠ Big congratulations to Indigo's 2022 Alumni AiR, Arisa White. During her time at Hewnoaks, Arisa plans to work on revising the libretto for Post Pardon: The Opera, an opera⁠ in development with jazz composer Jessica Jones, premiering in June 2025⁠ at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Waterville,⁠ Maine. The libretto draws on African-diasporic spirituality and folklore to tell the story of Willow, a queer activist confronted with the ghost of her⁠ estranged mother who committed murder-suicide. Rooted in a Black⁠ feminist perspective and set within a supernatural world, Post Pardon:⁠ Opera grapples with how we carry, spiritually and psychically, the suffering⁠ a previous generation could not resolve. It’s a lyrical transgenerational⁠ apology that brings healing attention to our most harrowing social,⁠ ecological, and personal wounds. It is an honor and a privilege to host Arisa and help past Indigo AiRs' careers flourish after their time at Indigo by providing them with new opportunities.⁠ ⁠ #Hewnoaks #IndigoArtsAlliance #ArisaWhite #AiRAlum #ArtistResidency

Jul 16

🎨 Exciting Job Opportunity at Hewnoaks! 🎨

Join our team as the 2024-2025 Summer Residency Co-Manager and help shape the future of our vibrant artist residency program.

📍 Location: Onsite in Lovell, Maine (housing provided)
📅 Duration: Sept. 1 – Oct. 2, 2024, and May 1 – Oct. 1, 2025

We’re looking for someone passionate about the arts and community to manage our summer program, welcome and support artists, and create a nurturing environment.

✨ What You'll Do:

-Plan and host weekly social events
-Manage check-ins/check-outs and orient new artists
-Assist in organizing community engagement events

This role offers a unique blend of creative involvement and operational management, all set against the stunning backdrop of Kezar Lake. Private living space and studio access included!

Ready for this exciting challenge? Apply now or share with someone who might be a great fit!

🔗 Read the full Job Description and find the link to Apply at hewnoaks.org/employment

#JobOpportunity #ArtsCommunity #ArtistResidency #JoinOurTeam #Hewnoaks #CreativeJobs

Jun 25

Pull up a chair and share: it's time for the first open mic of the season at Hewnoaks.

Got a story in progress you'd like to road test? A song you'd like to serenade us with? A comedy bit you'd like to try out? The floor is yours for five minutes. Make 'em count.

Held in partnership with @chmlibrary, our open mic nights are indeed open to the public! Come one and all.

Jun 21

What a joy to hear @lewisgrobinson and @meghan_gilliss riff on craft and read newly minted work (!) at Hewnoaks last night. There was electricity in the air - and not just in the form of the monstrous thunderstorm that shook the heavens minutes before the reading. Thanks to all who braved the heat to join us, and, above all, to Meghan and Lewis for gracing us with their presence and prose. 📖🌩️🔥✨🙏

#hewnoaks #mainewriters #lungfish #officerfriendly #waterdogs #literaryfiction

Jun 20

A few snaps from Hewnoaks' first residency group of 2024. We are sad to say goodbye to this wonderful, immensely talented cohort.

Photo 1: @bhesselb.art
Photo 2: cyanotype workshop taught by @bri_n for @greaterlovelllandtrust. Pic by @pamela_moulton
Photo 3: residents from left to right @citrus.history, @stephenbenenson, @a.leezimerle , Claire Blanchette (dinner guest), and @bhesselb.art enjoying a sumptuous spread at potluck dinner night.
Photo 4: cabin sharing night.
Photo 5: cyanotype workshop.
Photo 6-7: cabin sharing night.

Just another week in our little patch of (overheated) paradise!

#hewnoaks #maineartist #artistresidency

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