40 E Main Street | P.O. Box 498
Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
Lectures, Workshops, Events
For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or [email protected].
Saturday, May 7, 9 am to 3 pm, Penobscot Marine Museum, 5 Church St.
Meet and work alongside the PMM staff in behind-the-scenes activities to get the museum ready to open! Help us dust the boats, wash the windows, rake the lawn, and more. A delicious breakfast and lunch are provided. All are welcome.
The holiday season will be celebrated with Victorian Christmas at Penobscot Marine Museum this year on Friday, December 4th and Saturday, December 5th. The ship captain’s house will be open to the public with each room decorated for a Victorian Christmas by community groups and businesses, including the Congregational Church Women’s Fellowship Group, Searsport Historical Society, Searsport Beautification Committee, Blue Jacket Shipcrafters, Bangor Savings Bank and Searsport Antique Mall. There will be refreshments, music performed by boatbuilder Ralph Stanley and his fiddle group, and volunteers from Searsport’s Carver Library will be reading from 19th Christmas favorites.
In memory of Penobscot Marine Museum’s beloved Board Member Dr. Mike Stein, and to celebrate his love of the water and boating, Jerri Finch has donated her beautiful painting West Fork to raise funds in his memory. The painting is oil on board, 9 1/2″ x 14 1/2″, and has a lovely wooden frame. Purchase your raffle tickets or make a donation in Mike’s memory online here.
Draw, color, paint and more! Using historic photographs from the Penobscot Marine Museum collection, create your own work of art. Let your imagination and historical images run wild together. Supplies provided.
Artist: M.J. Bronstein, known for her unique painted images and her work with the photographic negative, is author of Photoplay and is an educator at Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
Cost: $5, Free for members. For all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Create an extraordinary work of art by transforming your black and white photographs using the historic technique of hand-painting. This intensive workshop explores traditional and contemporary methods for hand-painting. Photographs with be provided by the museum or bring your own B&W images, painting materials will be provided.
Artist: Liv Kristin Robinson is a Belfast area fine art photographer, her images are digitally created from start to finish as dye-infused metal prints.
Take beautiful photographs with cameras you've made from boxes off the kitchen shelf. It's pure magic! The beautiful, soft-focus images will amaze you. A pinhole camera is a camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box where a piece of film or photographic paper is wedged or taped into the other end.
Photographer: Anne-Claude Cotty is an artist and teacher living in Stonington, and is a past education coordinator of the Maine Crafts Association and executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.
Create an extraordinary work of art by transforming your black and white photographs using the historic technique of hand-painting. This intensive workshop explores traditional methods for applying pigments to black & white images. Suitable photos will be provided by the museum or bring your own black & white, matte surfaced, images. Painting materials will be provided.
Artist: Trained as an artist and art historian in New York City, Liv Kristin Robinson is a Belfast area fine-art photographer who is well known for her hand-painted images and has shown widely. Her originals are to be found in several private and public collections including The New York Public Library, The Portland Museum of Art, Colby College and the Farnsworth Museum of Art.
Come have your tintype portrait taken, or learn how a tintype is made. Tintypes are a type of photograph, popular in the 1860’s and 1870’s, taken on a piece of metal. Portraits will be made on a first come first served basis or you may reserve a time for your portrait by calling the museum at 207-548-0334 or 207-548-2529.
Artist: AgNO3 Lab is a mobile lab specializing in formal tintype portraits and event tintype photo-booth installations.
Take beautiful photographs with cameras you've made from boxes off the kitchen shelf. It's pure magic! The beautiful, soft-focus images will amaze you. A pinhole camera is a camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box where a piece of film or photographic paper is wedged or taped into the other end.
Photographer: Anne-Claude Cotty is an artist and teacher living in Stonington, and is a past education coordinator of the Maine Crafts Association and executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.
Have you ever wondered if it is possible to build a boat in four hours? On Saturday, June 6th, 10:00 am at Penobscot Marine Museum, boat builder Tom Russell will demonstrate how to build a 12-foot Passy Skiff in just four hours. This demonstration is part of the National Boatbuilding Challenge, a contest that will be held as part of the 6th Annual Belfast Harbor Fest on August 15th at Steamboat Landing. During Belfast Harbor Fest, eight to ten teams of two people each will compete to build a 12-foot rowboat in under four hours, put it in the water and successfully row it on the Passagassawaukeag. To form your own team, or for more information go to www.belfastharborfest.com or call 207‐338‐0244.
