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(c) 2026 Cushing Historical Society
Cushing Historical Society Presents

Welcome to Arts In The Barn
A venue for Artists, Musicians, Theatre and Community Events
17 Hathorne Point Road, Cushing ME 04563

Yoga Wednesday Mornings! Every Wednesday for the summer!
Willa will have two classes every Wednesday morning, one from 7am to 8am for those who need to get to places early, and the other at 9:15 to 10:30am for those who are ready for a more gentle approach to the day. Willa is a master yoga teacher who has made her practice adapt to whatever your body type: any age, any injury or not, and does it with a sense of humor and great skill. Come join us for yoga Wednesdays, and the cost is a sliding scale from $10- $20, whatever you can contribute.
Please Contact: cushingaitb@gmail.com or go to willaworks.com.
Summertime
A Community show, June 25th to 28th, 2026
Opening Celebration: Friday, June 26th, 5-7pm, refreshments served. Show Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10- 4pm.
A community show to start the season, all about Summertime and all the things we look forward to in the warm season. Over 30 artists and artisans will show their photographs, paintings, sculpture and other crafts.
Meet the artists and buy directly from them! For a prospectus, please Contact: cushingaitb@gmail.com .


Kids’ Theater Camp with Lois Pernice, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9am-12pm, July 7th to 16th, 2026
Lois Pernice has directed many successful plays and she will be sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with us this summer by running a kids’ theater camp! For more information, please contact: Lois at: loispernice@gmail.com
Threshold – July 9th to 12th
Cheryl McAlister, Painter
Opening Celebration, Friday, July 10th, 5-7pm, refreshments served. Show Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10- 4pm.
Cheryl is a painter working in acrylics and chalk pastel to investigate compositional structure and dramatic contrast in the landscapes of coastal Maine. Rather than depicting scenes directly, she uses familiar subjects — fallen timber, ice and water, winter light through bare trees — as foundations for formal inquiry, asking whether powerful geometric structure and a connection to the observed world can coexist. Her paintings hover deliberately between abstraction and representation, inviting the viewer to look rather than simply recognize.
Cheryl received her BFA from RISD, her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and for over twenty years, she taught painting and drawing at private art schools and served as Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA. For more information, please contact cushingaitb@gmail.com

“Threshold”, Cheryl McAlister

Peonies, Pines, Plovers & Panoramas – July 16th to 19th
Mary Ellen Manock, Christine “Tee” Neville, Lynn Neville and Anne Goodale, painters.
Opening celebration: Friday, July 17th, 5-7pm, refreshments served. Show Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10- 4pm.
Mary Ellen Manock is a watercolorist , ukulele player and all round talented artist. She welcomes her friends in this group show, including the incredibly talented sisters, Christine “Tee” Neville & Lynn Neville, and Anne Goodale. Many paintings in this show will be botanicals, but there are other topics that will be explored.
Pictured here is Mary Ellen Manock’s “Lupins”, Watercolor
Maine Wildlife
A Community Show, July 23rd to 26th , 2026
Opening celebration: Friday, July 24th, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
“Wildlife” can have many meanings, and whatever it means to these Maine artists will be on display this weekend! All fine art media, paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints and so on, will be shown as they appear in nature or in their imagination. For a prospectus, contact: cushingaitb@gmail.com . Pictured here is Molly Mugler, “Mallards in Flight”, Watercolor


Summertime Blues – August 6th to 9th
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
Ann O’Hara, Heather Spencer, Mary Beth Morrison, Janalee Welch, Peggy Fitzgerald and Carolyn Gabbe, painters, August 7th through 9th, 2026.
Summertime is for blue skies and water, blue shadows and Blues music! These six artists use a variety of paint mediums to create the feeling of summer and all that summertime entails. They come with a vast amount of skill and abilities along with many styles that will entertain and enthrall. Ann O’Hara will give a demonstration of painting techniques, stay tuned for exact timing and topic.
Pictured here is Ann O’Hara’s “Summer Blues”, pastel.
Maine Coast in Oils and Sculpture – Aug 13th to 16th
Opening Celebration, Friday, August 14th, 5-7, refreshments served.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
Mark Christopher, a wildlife and wetland biologist who focuses exclusively on animals and natural scenery. He has been a world class wildfowl carver and will exhibit his sculpture and paintings in this show; Bruce Bickford, a painter of landscape oils, will also be showing latest work of Maine landscapes and coastal wildlife. John Sawyer brings his bold colors with his impressionistic oils. This will be an extraordinary show!
Pictured here is Mark Christopher’s “Dunlin and Macaw – basswood & mixed media”


Seth Alymer, Paintings – Aug 20th -23rd
Opening celebration, Friday August 21st, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
Seth Aylmer is an oil painter of whimsical and brillant colored canvases, often representing his feelings of parenthood, life on or near the water, and life in general. He is the father of two young daughters and is building a cabin in Maine when not painting.
Pictured here is Aylmer’s “Parenthood”, oils
Creations In Cushing
A Community Show Aug 27th – 30th
Opening celebration, Friday August 28th, 5-7pm.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
Creations in Cushing is back in the Barn for summer 2026, with over 20 artists and their variety of mediums, crafts, arts and interests! Paintings, Fiber Arts, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Boats and more!
Always Fun!


Coastal Maine; Midcoast Plein Air Artists – Sept 10th -13th
Opening celebration, Friday Sept 11th, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday hours: 10- 4pm
Our local group of Plein Air Artists will be showing their latest works in Oils and Watercolors.
Pictured here is a John Sawyer Plein Air Oil
Adult Theater Camp
September 8th through 17th, 1-3:30pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with Lois Pernice
Play readings, Theater games and skits, character development, and anything that interests you about what it is like being and actor! Talk to Lois at: loispernice@gmail.com .

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