• Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00
  • Small-group Puffin Tour

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Join noted ornithologist, field biologist and trip leader Seth Benz on this private small-group tour to Petit Manan Island aboard the 40-foot Tricia Clark out of Steuben, Maine; watch for Atlantic puffins, terns, razorbills, eagles, eiders, black guillemots and more with expert insights from Seth. The smaller boat size provides a more intimate experience than...

    $100.00 – $125.00
  • Pattern-making for Carving with Josh Brewer

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Join Maine master carver Joshua Brewer at the Wendell Gilley Museum for this one-day class to learn the art of making a precise pattern for any bird you would like to carve. Carvers use patterns to guide their knife-cuts when carving birds from wood. While there are many books of patterns available, this class allows...

    $69.00 – $74.00
  • Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00
  • Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00
  • People-Nature-Art with sculptor and photographer Alex Turanski

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Alex Turanski began balancing stones (never in the national park!) in 2018 as a therapeutic practice. It was a way to exercise pure, raw focus and to dissolve his distractions. “The act of balance fully engages me in the raw present-moment,” he says. “In a way, I feel that I become as present and still...

    Free
  • Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00
  • “A Line Is…” with award-winning children’s illustrator and author Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning children’s author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand leads this special presentation, “A Line Is…” at the Gilley. This is an exciting journey through the evolution of illustration in Hillenbrand's favorite books. This is part the occasional series Reading with Wings that is part of a collaboration with our friends at the Southwest Harbor Public Library....

    Free
  • Author Talk with Children’s Author/Illustrator Will Hillenbrand

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Award-winning author and illustrator Will Hillenbrand will shares insights and inspiration from his decades of creating stories for children in this special presentation that is a joint program with the Southwest Harbor Public Library as part of the occasional series Reading with Wings. Copies of his new book Light as a Feather: Fifteen Phenomenal North...

    Free
  • Small-group Puffin Tour

    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    Join noted ornithologist, field biologist and trip leader Seth Benz on this private small-group tour to Petit Manan Island aboard the 40-foot Tricia Clark out of Steuben, Maine; watch for Atlantic puffins, terns, razorbills, eagles, eiders, black guillemots and more with expert insights from Seth. The smaller boat size provides a more intimate experience than...

    $100.00 – $125.00
  • Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00
  • Woodburning Workshop

    Woodburning Workshop
    Wendell Gilley Museum 4 Herrick Road, Southwest Harbor, ME, United States

    In this beginner-friendly two-hour class, you’ll learn the basic techniques of decorative woodburning and will create an image of a feather to take home. Using a pen-like burning tool, you'll start by practicing mark-making techniques to explore options and possibilities with the wood burner. Then you will create an image of a feather by copying...

    $30.00 – $37.00