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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
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Events
Yoga Wednesday Mornings! Every Wednesday for the summer!
Willa will have two classes every Wednesday morning, one from 7:15am to 8:15am for those who need to get to places early, and the other at 9am to 10:15am 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: willaworks@mac.com or go to willaworks.com.
Summertime
A Community show, June 26th to 28th, 2026
Opening Celebration: Friday, June 26th, 5-7pm, refreshments served. Show Hours: 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 .
Threshold – July 10th to 12th
Cheryl McAlister, Painter
Opening Celebration, Friday, July 10th, 5-7pm, refreshments served. Show Hours: 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
Shown here – “Shadow and Snow”, by Cheryl McAlister
Peonies, Pines, Plovers & Panoramas – July 17th 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: Saturday and Sunday 10- 4pm.
Mary Ellen Manock is a watercolorist , ukulele player, gardener and all round talented artist. She welcomes her gardening 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 “Lupines”, Watercolor
Maine Wildlife
A Community Show, July 24th to 26th , 2026
Opening celebration: Friday, July 24th, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 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 or scroll to the bottom where it says “Exhibitors”, click on it and you can download a prospectus from there. Pictured here is Christopher Lawrence, “The Run”, Acrylic on canvas.
Summertime Blues – August 7th to 9th, 2026
Opening celebration: Friday, Aug 7th, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10- 4pm
Ann O’Hara, Mary Beth Morrison, Janalee Welch, Peggy Fitzgerald , Carolyn Gabbe and Joanie Betterly; painters.
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 14th to 16th
Opening Celebration, Friday, August 14th, 5-7, refreshments served.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 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”
Landscape: Degrees of Abstraction – Aug 21st to 23rd
Opening celebration, Friday August 21st, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10- 4pm
Come see four unique and divergent depictions of the Maine landscape by Seth Aylmer, Lisa Kyle, Lee Talboys and Jim Lynch. 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. Lisa Kyle writes: “As far back I can remember, I have loved to draw and paint. I always wanted to be a painter. Even when I began practicing architecture, I studied painting. I begin most paintings by sketching, and often paint plein-air, on site.” Lee Talboys writes that after being an architect for many years: “I turned my attention to painting in 2021, at the suggestion of my wife, Lisa Kyle, who is a full-time landscape painter. I hope that my paintings make people smile!” Jim Lynch writes: “I did not start painting until 2002 when, by sheer serendipity, I was invited to attend Art Week on Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay. Although I started the week by making landscape photographs, I was inspired by the group of talented painters feverishly capturing the beauty and character of the island from dawn till dusk.”
These oil , acrylic and watercolor paintings present a range of interpretations of the natural world that resonate with our times, provide meaning, and illuminate beauty. Realism, impressionism, graphic symbolism, abstraction – many tools and styles of the past are up for consideration with the work of these diverse local artists.
Pictured here is Seth Aylmer’s “Rock Face II”, oils.
Creations In Cushing
A Community Show Aug 28th – 30th
Opening celebration, Friday August 28th, 5-7pm.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10- 4pm
Creations in Cushing is back in the Barn for summer 2026, with over 30 artists and their variety of mediums, crafts, arts and interests! Paintings, Fiber Arts, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Boats and more! To get a prospectus, contact: cushingaitb@gmail.com or scroll to the bottom of this page to “Exhibitors”, click on it, and the prospectuses can be downloaded from there.
Always Fun!
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 .
Coastal Maine: Midcoast Plein Air Artists – Sept 11th -13th, 2026
Opening celebration, Friday Sept 11th, 5-7pm, refreshments served.
Show Hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10- 4pm
Our local group of Plein Air Artists started 7 years ago when COVID made it difficult to meet indoors. Mary Ann Heinzen and Karin Strong decided along with 20 other artists that we could continue to meet once a week, and create “artists’ dates” for painting together and sharing ideas. Now, many years later we are over 165 plein air painters, and some of them will be will be showing their latest works in at the Barn in all kinds of fine art media.
Pictured here is one of our paint outs at Wheeler Bay, St George.