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Special Garden Story Time

Seeds

June 7th, 2023 1:00PM

Help Plant Mr. Mcgregor's Garden.

The Modern Pop Art Experience and Collage Workshop With Michael Albert

August 15th, 2024

3:00PM-5:00PM

Perfect for kids 5 and up! Please collect cereal boxes, other cardboard packages( crackers, soda, etc.) and cardboard backings or corrugated boxes cut into 8x10 size pieces for the base. Visit http://www.michaelalbert.com to see Michael Albert's work.

 

The “Modern Pop Art Experience” includes an artist appearance, artist talk and presentation. This also includes a HANDS-ON COLLAGE WORKSHOP where participants get to create their own collages using the same materials Mr. Albert uses to create works of art. The 2-hour program finishes with a free poster give away and signing.
Perfect for kids 5 and up!
Mr. Albert was born and raised on Long Island in New York and currently lives and works in White Plains, New York. Albert is the author of an artist autobiography titled “An Artist’s America”(Henry Holt, 2008) and is nationally known for making collage artworks from cereal boxes and other printed cardboard consumer brand packages.
For more information about Michael Albert and his art check out his website www.Michaelalbert.com
He can be reached for comment by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
 

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June at the Library 2026

 

Michael E. Vermette Art Show

Micheal Vermette

Our Featured Maine Artist in The Akeley Gallery

March 1, 2023-April 30, 2023

 

Bruce Coffin Book Discussion

 

Bruce Coffin MYS

 April 11, 2023

At 6:00pm

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Libarary

We are thrilled to welcome Maine author Bruce Robert Coffin back to Presque Isle for a book signing, visit, and discussion! If you remember his last visit, Bruce is a retired police detective sergeant and bestselling author of the Detective Byron Mysteries and is as engaging in person as his characters are in his best-selling novels. Books are available for purchase at the event. If you love law and order, skilled writing, and police procedure, you won't want to miss this. Bruce has incredible stories of his time as a police detective and his transition to a popular crime writer. For more information about Bruce, please see his website: http://www.brucerobertcoffin.com/ 

 

Special Louise Penny Book Discussion

 

A World Of Curiosities

Join the library at the Giffiths House for a special celebration of Louise Penny's Latest Book"A World of Curiosities" We will be hosting an afternoon of book talk, activities, food, and other fun at 228 State Street.

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Hanukkah Bear Storytime

 

Hanukkah Bear

December 21, 2022

At 3:00 pm

Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library

Maine Author and Aviator Mary Build

Mary Build

Griffith House

228 State Street Presque Isle

January 6, 2023

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Questions Call

The Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library @ 207-764-2571

Coffee Gets Cold Quick

Coffee Gets Cold Quick

 

November 18, 2022

From 6 pm To 7:30 pm

At 228 State Street Presque Isle

Photography Of China
 
 
 
Join us at the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library for the opening of Lewis Sandler’s China Photo Exhibit. This exhibit features photos of a mixture of modern and traditional China, taken during the artist’s many decades living and working in the country. This reception will run 4PM – 6PM on Friday, November 4th as a part of the First Friday Art Walk. Light refreshments will be served.
 
From the artist’s bio: “Lewis Sandler BS, JD from Massachusetts now lives in Presque Isle in his beautifully quiet, semi-secluded log cabin, and spends his free time taking and creating photographs of interesting subjects. After nearly 30 years living and working in Beijing at a prestigious science and technology university as an undergraduate and PhD instructor (English literature, Creative Writing, Beyond Science, legal English, Debate, and Photography Design), he returned home to USA in late 2019 with thousands of photos of Beijing and other places of interest around China and Asia.”

This exhibition will be available for viewing through December 30th, 2022. 

 

Photography Of China
 
 
 
Join us at the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library for the opening of Lewis Sandler’s China Photo Exhibit. This exhibit features photos of a mixture of modern and traditional China, taken during the artist’s many decades living and working in the country. This reception will run 4PM – 6PM on Friday, November 4th as a part of the First Friday Art Walk. Light refreshments will be served.
 
From the artist’s bio: “Lewis Sandler BS, JD from Massachusetts now lives in Presque Isle in his beautifully quiet, semi-secluded log cabin, and spends his free time taking and creating photographs of interesting subjects. After nearly 30 years living and working in Beijing at a prestigious science and technology university as an undergraduate and PhD instructor (English literature, Creative Writing, Beyond Science, legal English, Debate, and Photography Design), he returned home to USA in late 2019 with thousands of photos of Beijing and other places of interest around China and Asia.”

This exhibition will be available for viewing through December 30th, 2022. 

 

A Soldier's Heart

By

Ray Gauvin

A Soldiers Heart

Book Signing

October 21, 2022

At 6:00 pm

In the Akeley Gallery

 

  1. Old Places, New Paintings By William Lloyd Duncan.
  2. Test Aug. 23
  3. Authors Of Maine With Claire Ackroyd and Laurie Apgar Chandler
  4. Clifton Boudman
  5. Coming Soon
  6. Children's Chess Club
  7. Imaging By Filomena Irving
  8. Apples and Stories
  9. Knitting Club
  10. Chess Club
  11. Hope And Justice Project Annual Walk
  12. Peter Rabbit Garden Party
  13. Kids and Crafts!
  14. Story Walk
  15. Toddler Storytime
Jaina Mexican Figurines

Jaina Mexican Figurines

Featured at the 2nd Street Gallery

Hand Carved African Masks

Hand Carved African Masks

Clifton Boudman's Collection of Hand Carved Wood Tribal Ancestor Masks from Accura Ghana

UMPI Art Alumni Show Series IV

UMPI Art Alumni Show Series IV

"Series IV" May 2026