Staff Writer
PRESQUE ISLE — This year’s fifth annual “Paint Presque Isle: A Fresh Paint Event and Auction” raised nearly $3,200 for the Aroostook Partners in the Arts.
CAROLYN ANDERSON of Littleton created an acrylic painting of the PT Farms barn on Route 1 during the fifth annual “Paint Presque Isle: A Fresh Paint Event and Auction” fundraiser for the Aroostook Partners in the Arts. “I just like that barn. It’s pretty. I like old, beat up things,” Anderson said of her subject.
Held Aug. 18, more than a dozen area artists set up around the Star City and created original pieces, which were auctioned off later that night at The Crow’s Nest. Locations artists used as their inspiration included the Presque Isle Stream, Maple Grove Road, Higgins Road, Northern Maine Regional Airport and Mantle Lake Park.
In welcoming attendees to the auction, Partners in the Arts member Judy Kenney said, “It is with great awe and admiration that we thank our artists for their continued support. It’s amazing that these paintings did not exist before 8:30 a.m.”
ART ADMIRERS — Pam Thompson, left, and Patti Dorman, both of Caribou, were among the many people who attended the Aug. 18 auction as part of the “Paint Presque Isle” event. Eighteen original pieces of artwork, as well as several items in a silent auction, were up for bid at the fundraiser which raises money for the Aroostook Partners in the Arts, an organization whose mission is to bring more art enrichment to the schools in Aroostook County.
The Aroostook Partners in the Arts is an organization whose mission is to bring more art enrichment to the schools in Aroostook County. Last year the group funded performers and events such as mime and ballerina Karen Montanaro, the Theater at Monmouth and Michael Wingfield, who conducted presentations on African culture and music through the medium of percussion.
HEATHER SINCAVAGE, fine arts instructor at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, painted the State Street Bridge and the Wintergreen Arts Center for her contribution to the recent “Paint Presque Isle: A Fresh Paint Event and Auction.” She used acrylics on a canvas wrapped with newspaper. This was Sincavage’s second year participating in the fundraiser. She said the event is a great way to “make the community aware of how the arts can really embody the beauty of a community.”
