The mission of Schoodic Arts for All is to bring artists and community members together to provide year-round cultural events and activities that hold value for our community.
Vision
Schoodic Arts for All will nurture a vital arts center offering diverse programs and activities that inspire a wide range of enthusiastic participants. We will continue to be a creative and economic magnet, drawing people to live, work, and visit Downeast Maine. Multi-generational involvement in Schoodic Arts for All will develop leaders of the future who carry forward the original dream of honoring and sustaining the vibrant communities of the Schoodic Peninsula.
Goals
A. Encourage participants of all ages to express themselves creatively and gain a lifelong
appreciation for the arts and creative spirit.
B. Celebrate creativity through a wide range of workshops, events and performances.
C. Serve as a community anchor by maintaining and operating facilities for public benefit.
D. Gain broad recognition, response and support for SAFA’s inclusive year-around programming.
E. Sustain a strong Schoodic Arts for All.

Please enjoy these links to online arts resources. We are gathering from our local creative community as well as the wider world:

Performing Arts

• Nightly Met Opera Streams – An opera every night at 7:30pm EST

• Yo-Yo Ma on Encouraging “Songs of Comfort” Amid Global Crisis 

• Deiran Manning – Beethoven Op 53

• Danielle Woerner, Sunrise County Arts Institute – Online Voice Lessons, all ages, all types of music

• Sally Rogers – Song a Day Concert

• Winter Harbor Music Festival Live Stream Concert 4/3/20

• Gordon Thomas Ward LIVE concerts

• Sean Heely and Bonnie Rideout Strathmore Concert Finale

• Alison Chase Performance

Visual Arts

• Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems to host ‘Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems’

• Susan Tobey White  – An Interview with Belfast Artist – Painter of “Lobstering Women of Maine” Series

• Wendilee Heath O’Brien – Creating in Quarantine, a Teaching Blog

• Paris Museums put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Use

• Google Arts and Culture has partnered with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world, providing virtual exhibits

• Island Readers and Writers Resources – Educational Resources for Families

• Kat Logan Art – Drawing Lessons

• Audra Christie Live Art Lessons

• Julie Paschkis – Coloring Pages

• Robert Shetterly – Truth Tellers Blog

Cooking

• Chris Toy – Cooking Demonstrations, on the Boomer Tech FB Page

Craft

• Amanda Coburn – On line jewelry workshops

Artist Emergency Resources

1. CERF+ is the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, a non-profit that assists artists with natural disasters that effect their livelihood. Currently, because of the anticipated volume of requests, CERF+ is only assisting artists who have been infected with the virus and require intensive medical care.
2. The Society of North American Goldsmiths has compiled a page listing artist relief resources.
3. COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources is a website listing various resources for independent artists who are in need. The website has been set up as a community effort by several artists.

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