Sidewalk Art, Music, and Oysters Make a Grand Season Finale
WISCASSET, MAINE – True to the spirit of the 2021 Wiscasset Art Walk season, the final event on Thursday, September 30, 5-8pm, features community art-making, working artists, music, and picnics to go.
The evening’s sidewalk activities aim to activate inner artists, stimulate taste buds, and enhance community connections. Two hands-on community art projects invite visitors to jump right in. Artist Celia Ludwig provides the guidance, brushes, and paint for the summer-long community murals-making which visitors have used to document their summer sojourns with hand-painted lobsters, boats, seagulls, and other iconic seacoast images. Continuing with the coastal theme, Jan Whitfield’s collected oyster shells become the canvas for making decoupage treasures. She demonstrates how to use simple papers to make elegantly decorated shells – with an added edge of ‘gold leaf.’ Also on the sidewalk, and under a tent, multi-media artist Susy Perrine constructs a garden structure from twigs throughout the evening.
Complementing the creative sidewalk activities, musicians Rick Turcotte and Chris Lannon (half of Married with Chitlins), play blues and country tunes for everyone’s delight. Nearby, Wiscasset’s new oysteria, Brother Shucker, sets up on the sidewalk to shuck for visitors. Sarah’s Café and Treats offer picnics-to-go for hungry WAW strollers. The prix fixe picnics should be ordered in advance by calling or visiting the restaurant’s web site with pick-up during the evening. Bistro tables and chairs, set up on Middle St., are for the convenience and comfort of visitors. Village lobster shacks, Red’s Eats and Sprague’s, are open through the evening.
Wiscasset Village sidewalks are also the venue for local vendors: the Garden Club of Wiscasset’s freshly picked bouquets and Cottage Lavender’s fragrant wreaths and sachets. In addition, visiting artists and displays from local community groups, whose missions enhance the community, deepen the local experience for visitors.
Moving indoors, the art galleries along Main St. are outstanding and accomplished musicians accompany the viewing. Whether browsing or buying, the Village collection of unique shops never disappoints; shop owners are on hand to help. New in 2021, the IndustrialME shack on the Creamery Pier offers unusual hand-crafted home goods.
While there’s a full and fun evening to be enjoyed during the last WAW of 2021 on the last day of September, concern about increasing COVID incidence means the Village is following CDC recommendations: visitors are advised to wear face coverings in indoor settings, and most Village shops are requiring masks, sanitizing, and distancing.
