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Golden Rd

Millinocket, ME 04462

The weather for Tuesday is sunny and the temperature will reach 32 degrees. It should be a great day for painting. please bring winter gear and possibly snowshoes because of the snow being deeper in Northern Maine than in the Bangor region. You are also encouraged to bring a lunch or snacks to eat on location. You can get snacks at Abol Store and there is a bathroom available there as well.

After we finish painting at Abol Bridge, we will be going to The River Driver's restaurant at Twin Pines Cabins overlooking Millinocket Lake and Katahdin.  We hope all that can will join us for a day of fun, artistic support and good fellowship! There will be a little hiking involved including about a mile long trail to get to the views.

Also as a reminder for next Saturday March 22nd, the Plein Air Connection artists will be traveling to drop paintings off at the 24th Maine Juried Art Show in Waterville, Maine. The drop off site is the Waterville Public Library on 77 Elm Street between 9:30 am and 11 am. The registration fee deadline was back in February on the 21st was $30.00. Now it is $50.00 at the door on March 22nd. They are also doing express Check-In for those who have pre-registeredwhich I strongly suggest you do so that you will not have to wait long in line with your paintings.  Here is a letter from their office manager June L’Heureux:

Dear Artist,

Thank you for your recent registration to the Maine Open Juried Art Show. I would like to encourage, and offer you the opportunity for express check-in on the morning of the show. If you would like to take advantage of expedited registration, and avoid waiting in lines, simply click on the attached form, fill it in and submit OR please fill in the information  requested below. On the morning of registration, proceed to Express Check-In.  Your labels will be cut, preprinted and ready to be adhered to your artwork, front and back, and your receipt will be preprinted.
If you have any questions or experience any difficulty, please do not hesitate to call me at 680-2055.  I am in the office from 8am-2pm, M-F.

Name of Artist:
 
Title of Painting 1:
Media Painting 1:
Price Painting 1- or if not for sale just insert NFS:
Category of Painting 1 (oil, or acrylic, or watercolor, or pastel or other media):
Year created (2012 or 2013 or 2014):
 
Title of Painting 2:
Media Painting 2:
Price Painting 2- or if not for sale just insert NFS:
Category of Painting 2 (oil, or acrylic, or watercolor, or pastel or other media):
Year created (2012 or 2013 or 2014):
 
Thanks again,
Best,
June


June L’Heureux, Office Manager
Waterville Main Street
44 Main Street, Suite 202
Waterville, ME  04901
Phone: (207) 680-2055
Fax: (207) 680-2056
www.watervillemainstreet.org
[email protected]
Upcoming Events:  www.watervillemainstreet.org/events.php



After we drop off paintings for the day to be juried, we will be meeting at the information desk at the Colby College Art Museum. We will have our book discussion and learn to communicate and make connections with the new Peter and Paula Lunder Collection. We hope to meet up with our friends from the southern part of the state and meet between 10 to 10:30 am at Colby College information desk in the museum. We will have our connect book discussion in one of the campus classrooms there on the campus as we did last year. We hope to discuss "Letter of Criticism" on page 180 to "Letter of Criticism" on page 200 of "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri and then go over to the museum for a visit. Then we will go over to the Campus Dining Services together for lunch which boasts an expansive choice of food service options to meet many diverse dietary choices.

After enjoying lunch together, we will go back to the Waterville Public Library to see if our paintings have been accepted into the show. This will be a full day of fun and enrichment that will motivate us for months to come. We hope we can meet up with many of you then.

Have an incredibly inspiring week filled with every good and perfect gift,

Michael E. Vermette
Coordiator of the Plein Air Connection