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PHOTO: A work by Don Best, one of last year’s Clothesline Project artists. (WFLT photo)
NORWAY — Western Foothills Land Trust’s second iteration of the Clothesline Project, a series of temporary outdoor art exhibitions created by four local artists, will be held in July through September, with an opening June 25.
The art will be hung at Shepard’s Farm Preserve, 121 Crockett Ridge Road, which is part the 272-acre conservation area that wraps around Witt Swamp.
The title, Clothesline Project, pays homage to the history of the Penley Clothespin Co., formerly of West Paris. Through the project, the land trust hopes to reinforce the community’s memory of a once huge local industry (wooden clothespins) that will reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has inspired connection to natural landscape and art in everyday life.
In 2018 WFLT built a half-mile universally accessible trail at Shepard’s Farm, through donation funding, which provides a wander through a former agricultural landscape and provides access to six Bernard Langlais sculptures. Eventually the trust would like to add to the permanent outdoor collection at the preserve. The Clothesline Project, more temporary in scale, will provide an introduction to new artists, new materials and new concepts of visual art at the preserve.
The project is being administered by Diana Arcadiponem of The Folk Arts Studio, at Fiber&Vine.
Exhibitions from four artists will be installed outdoors from July through September.
A preview opening will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 25.
Dates for the four artists’ exhibitions are Mary Delano, July 16-26; Nikki Millonzi, Aug. 6-16; Virginia Valdes, Aug. 20-30; Kimberly Hamlin, Sept. 10-20.
