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Paul J. Schupf Art Center: Harold Alfond Foundation challenge grant announcement

Waterville Creates! is thrilled to announce a $6 million challenge grant from the Harold Alfond Foundation in support of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center. This remarkable gift includes a direct 3 to 1 match of all contributions – past and future – to our community capital campaign, and an additional $3 million when the community campaign reaches a million dollars. This is the last piece of the $18 million fundraising goal for this transformative project. Every gift matters and now will have 4 times the impact!

On the Road with Waterville Creates!

Many of us are lamenting the limitations of travel this summer. Thankfully, we live in a state of extreme beauty with many fascinating places to visit. Here at WC!, we realize there are numerous destinations off the beaten path where we can explore Maine’s incredible art, artists, and natural landscape. The On the Road series is designed to explore areas that are art destinations in their own right and/or sites where we can create our own works of art. The playlist is added to frequently, so be sure to keep checking back!

We are Waterville Creates!

What is Waterville Creates! and what does our organization do? We promote, support, and grow our community‘s arts and cultural assets in order to strengthen Waterville as a vibrant creative center, increase access to creative opportunities for residents and visitors, and advance community and economic development goals.

Downtown Arts Center

Creativity. Collaboration. Community.

Planning is underway for a new Downtown Arts Center. In this video Tamsen Brooke Warner, Executive Director of the Waterville Opera House shares her experience and enthusiasm about the importance of arts in Waterville.

Space for Conversation Series

Elizabeth Jabar, associate dean and director of public engagement at Maine College of Art, discusses the role of the citizen, artist, designer, and the power of community partnerships in effecting social change.

PechaKucha Night Waterville

PechaKucha Night Waterville is presented by a volunteer Team PK, Waterville Creates!, and the Waterville Public Library. The Colby College Center for the Arts & Humanities is the 2017-2018 season sponsor. For more information: [email protected].

Experience the Downtown Waterville Farmers Market

The downtown Waterville Farmers Market provides our community with wonderfully fresh, locally produced meats, veggies, fruits, dairy products and much more. The downtown Waterville Market is open every Thursday, May through mid-November, 2-6pm on Common Street in downtown Waterville, adjacent to Castonguay Square.

Into the Forest: Flora, Fauna, Lichen, Moss

Common Street Art is pleased to present work by Maine artists Barbara Sullivan and Juliet Karelsen in the exhibition Into the Forest: Flora, Fauna, Lichen, Moss on view from September 13 through October 28, 2017.

This exhibition will explore the themes of our natural environment, preservation, conservation, and biological diversity. Central Maine is a region where residents have the potential to directly interact with the natural landscape through nature walks, birdwatching, hunting, and fishing, among other explorations—and the work of Barbara Sullivan and Juliet Karelsen offers a unique and candid artists’ perspective on our local environment.

Waterville Wheat Paste

In 2017 Waterville Creates! launched a Public Art Task Group to foster community involvement and collaboration through the execution of highly-visual, dynamic public art installations throughout Waterville. One of the primary goals identified in the Waterville Cultural Blueprint is to provide diverse encounters with art, culture, and creativity in the public realm through public art and public performances in both traditional and nontraditional venues. In keeping with this goal, the Public Art Task Group is embarked upon its first Public Art Installation, Waterville Wheat Paste.