Brick Store Museum

Youth Art Series
2023-05-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-11 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-04 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This 4-week art studio workshop will highlight the styles and work made
famous by four individual artists and how they changed our world.
All classes will have hands-on projects inspired by the highlighted artist’s work.
Week 1: Yayoi Kusama
Week 2: Georgia O’Keefe
Week 3: Louise Bourgeois
Week 4: Hilma af Klint
Time:
2:45pm-5:00pm
Dates:
Thursdays, May 4th – May 25th
Cost:
$110/participant
Grades:
1st-5th
Instructor:
Elizabeth Winter

This program is run in collorbation with Kennebunk Parks and Recreation. Please register here:
https://kennebunkme.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=30276

Paint and Grow Early Release Workshop
2023-05-03 13:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Paint and decoupage a one of a kind flower pot. While pots dry students will create, from air dry clay, a garden ornament for their pot. This would perfect for a Mothers Day gift!
All students will leave with a finished painted pot with plant and garden ornament.
Instructor: Elizabeth Winter
$25

Wrapped in Blue Opening Reception
2023-04-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Museum Member Event! (not a Member? Join today!)
Please join us for an evening of delight as we welcome the opening of Partners for World Health’s featured exhibit at the Museum. The exhibit is rich with stunning design, innovative resourcefulness, and impactful messaging regarding global health at the level of the individual and the environment.
Provisions and wine will be served.
Let us know that you’re coming! RSVP to info@brickstoremuseum.org or call (207)985-4802.

Smokey the Bear
2023-04-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
April 16-22 is Wildfire Awareness Week in Maine. To learn how you can prevent wildfires in your community, please join Maine’s Forest Rangers at a special event at the Museum on April 21 from 10am to 12pm. Smokey Bear will be there as well nineteen Smokey Bear paintings that are part of the Rudy Wendelin Collection at the National Archives, now touring the State.

Storytime with a Maine Forest Ranger will feature the story of Smokey the Bear, alongside activities to take home. Free to attend!

The national poster exhibition will be on view in the Museum’s Patsy Bauman Gallery through May 14th.

Easter - CLOSED
2023-04-09 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
The Museum is CLOSED on Easter Sunday to allow staff and volunteers to celebrate with their families.

Trash Art - Early Release Workshop
2023-04-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Let’s help celebrate our planet and make something cool. This workshop will focus on creating sculptures from found and repurposed elements in the Kennebunk community. Students will learn about the life cycle of the items they are using. Trash artists work will be discussed and examples shown.
Instructor: Elizabeth Winter
Grades 1 – 5.
Cost: $25
All materials will be provided.

Children's Literature & Music at the Museum
2023-04-01 10:30 - 12:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
We’re hosting a celebration of the young child with literature and music on Saturday, April 1, 2023 in the galleries, to kick off the national Week of the Young Child (presented by National Association for the Education of Young Children).

This event is free, open to all young children (and their grownups) and begins at 10:30 AM with author reading & signing with Barbara Walsh (“The Lobster Lady”) followed immediately by playful, interactive music with award-winning children’s musician, Sammie Haynes, at 11:00 AM.

10:30am: Children’s book author Barbara Walsh, book reading & signing!

11:00am: Interactive Children’s Concert with Sammie Haynes!

CPAA Winter Series: Film & Discussion
2023-03-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance (CPAA) Winter Series Presents: Visual Anthropology & Archaeology
The goal of this series is to elevate the discussion of local anthropology and archaeology to include current trends in the field that incorporate science and art. This series is created by the CPAA, a professionally led initiative focused on the Archipelago of Cape Porpoise, Maine. The partnership with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and the Brick Store Museum supports documentation and contextualizing the archaeology of the islands and intertidal zone threatened by global sea level rise.
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This series will run in-person weekly on five Thursdays at 6PM starting February 23, 2023, at the Brick Store Museum’s Program Center, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME.
Parking is available on Main Street, Dane Street and in the Town Hall parking lot.
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Admission by donation is suggested to help support our speakers. Registration is optional and suggested. Attend one or all four!
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Schedule:
Session I – March 2 (6PM), Visual Anthropology Introduction, featuring highlights of the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival in Finland. Presenter: Tim Spahr (Registered Professional Archaeologist, CPAA)
Session 2 – March 9 (6PM), Visual Studies Presentation & Student Exhibit Preview. Presenter: Anelli Allard, (MA Nordic Visual Studies & Art Education, Finland)
Session 3 – March 16 (6PM), Introduction to Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching for scientific documentation, Presenters: Tim Spahr & Elizabeth Kelley (Artist CPAA)
Session 4 – March 23 (6PM), Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching, viewing of lithic artifacts recovered by the Cape Porpoise Archeological Team. Students can produce field drawings from artifact models (materials provided). Led by Elizabeth Kelley
Session 5 – March 30 (6PM), Anthropological film viewing and discussion.
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REGISTER HERE >>

Color My World - Student Art Class
2023-03-30 15:30 - 17:00, 2023-03-23 15:30 - 17:00 | ME
A beginner’s course for grades 1st-5th in drawing, acrylic painting, and collage. A final mixed media project will be created by utilizing all three skills learned. This will be a hands on course that requires students’ full participation.
Instructor: Elizabeth Winters
Thursdays in March: 2:45 – 5:00
SOLD OUT

Easter Egg Needle Felting
2023-03-28 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join Beth Crowe at the Brick Store Museum for a relaxing morning or evening of learning the art of needle felting. No experience necessary! Each student will create three needle felted Easter eggs to keep or gift.
There are two sessions on Tuesday, March 28th
10am – 12pm (morning)
5:00 – 7:00 pm (evening)
Class size is limited to 12.

REGISTER HERE

Edith's 139th Birthday & Costume Party
2023-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join us for a 139th Birthday Party!
The Brick Store Museum’s founder, Edith Barry, was born March 10, 1884. At age 52, in 1936, she opened the Museum in a building she inherited from her Uncle, William Barry.
March 2023 marks Edith’s 139th birthday – her life spanned nine decades, from the 1880s to 1960s. Join us for a celebration of her life’s work in art and culture during a Costume Party celebrating her birthday this March 25, 2023, from 5-7pm.
This fundraiser will support the preservation of Edith’s original Museum building – The Brick Store itself – which needs its chimney rebuilt and brick repointed and painted in 2023.
Guests are encouraged to wear costumes reflecting the span of Edith’s life, from the 1880s to the 1960s!
The event will feature a specialty cocktail (a classic gimlet!) and appetizers selected from each decade from the 1910s through 1960s. Guests will view a special selection of Edith’s artwork and photography, and view her home movies from the 1910s – 1950s. There will be a fun raffle and an opportunity to hear more about the Museum’s newest publication, Edith Barry’s Family Cookbook!
Tickets are $50 per person, $40 for Museum Members.

CPAA Winter Series: Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching
2023-03-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance (CPAA) Winter Series Presents: Visual Anthropology & Archaeology
The goal of this series is to elevate the discussion of local anthropology and archaeology to include current trends in the field that incorporate science and art. This series is created by the CPAA, a professionally led initiative focused on the Archipelago of Cape Porpoise, Maine. The partnership with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and the Brick Store Museum supports documentation and contextualizing the archaeology of the islands and intertidal zone threatened by global sea level rise.
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This series will run in-person weekly on five Thursdays at 6PM starting February 23, 2023, at the Brick Store Museum’s Program Center, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME.
Parking is available on Main Street, Dane Street and in the Town Hall parking lot.
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Admission by donation is suggested to help support our speakers. Registration is optional and suggested. Attend one or all four!
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Schedule:
Session I – March 2 (6PM), Visual Anthropology Introduction, featuring highlights of the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival in Finland. Presenter: Tim Spahr (Registered Professional Archaeologist, CPAA)
Session 2 – March 9 (6PM), Visual Studies Presentation & Student Exhibit Preview. Presenter: Anelli Allard, (MA Nordic Visual Studies & Art Education, Finland)
Session 3 – March 16 (6PM), Introduction to Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching for scientific documentation, Presenters: Tim Spahr & Elizabeth Kelley (Artist CPAA)
Session 4 – March 23 (6PM), Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching, viewing of lithic artifacts recovered by the Cape Porpoise Archeological Team. Students can produce field drawings from artifact models (materials provided). Led by Elizabeth Kelley
Session 5 – March 30 (6PM), Anthropological film viewing and discussion.
REGISTER HERE >>

Woven at Home Lecture
2023-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Marjie Thompson enjoys being “stuck” in the pre-20th century weaving world. Her focus is the textiles produced both at home and by the professional weavers. Marjie enjoys adapting these weaves to contemporary colors and uses. She is the coordinator of the Complex Weavers “Early Weaving Books and Manuscripts” study group, the “Preserving Our Past” study group, past president of NEWS, a past Dean of the Weavers’ Guild of Boston, past president of Complex Weavers, an active guild member in the Weavers’ Guild of Boston, president of the New Hampshire Weavers’ Guild, and a member of many study groups including Cross Country Weavers.
Her woven pieces have received the HGA award, Handwoven’s Weaving for the Home Award, and Marjie is one of a handful of weavers awarded the “Weaver of Distinction” title from NEWS in both the gallery and fashion shows. She is the co-author of Forgotten Pennsylvania Textiles of the 18th and 19th Centuries, The Huck Pattern Collection, Miniature Patterns for Weaving by Josephine Estes, and the editor of The Gartner Manuscript. Her articles have appeared in Weavers, Handwoven, Complex Weavers Journal, Shuttle, Spindle, & Dyepot, and The Spinning Wheel Sleuth’s Loom Supplement.

In this lecture, she will focus on the work of Eliza Perkins Bourne of Kennebunk, who achieved success in the home weaving business in the early 19th century in her home on Summer Street.

To register for this FREE program, please CLICK HERE>

Rag Wreath Adult Workshop
2023-03-21 17:30 - 19:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join Brick Store Museum in creating your own rag wreath. Instruction and all materials will be provided. Wreaths will be constructed from precut recycled fabric and plant dyed fabric. Option to add embellishments will be provided. Gather some friends and feel free to bring a beverage of you choice to enjoy while you create. This interior wreath is sure to brighten your space year round!
Instructor: Elizabeth Winters

REGISTER HERE

CPAA Winter Series: Intro to Archaeological Field Notetaking (Session 4)
2023-03-16 18:00 - 19:00 | ME

Color My World - Student Art Classes
2023-03-16 15:30 - 17:00 | ME

CPAA Winter Series: Visual Studies & Preview
2023-03-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States

Color My World - Student Art Class
2023-03-09 02:45 - 17:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States

Great Grief: Mourning & Remembrance in New England
2023-03-04 13:30 - 14:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
JOIN US to explore the changing experience of public and private grief in society over the past 200 years with Professor Libby Bischof (USM). Using local archives and artifacts, she will lead us in engaging discussion of the history of grief and mourning and what it means to each of one us over time. Participants will hear performances of historic letters and diaries while considering the importance of making room for grief in our community.
This program will take place on Zoom. ASL interpretation will be provided.
This lecture is a free program supported by the Maine Humanities Council’s MAINE SPEAKS program.
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Click HERE to register and receive the Zoom link.

CPAA Winter Series: Visual Anthropology Intro (Session 1)
2023-03-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance (CPAA) Winter Series Presents: Visual Anthropology & Archaeology
The goal of this series is to elevate the discussion of local anthropology and archaeology to include current trends in the field that incorporate science and art. This series is created by the CPAA, a professionally led initiative focused on the Archipelago of Cape Porpoise, Maine. The partnership with the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and the Brick Store Museum supports documentation and contextualizing the archaeology of the islands and intertidal zone threatened by global sea level rise.
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This series will run in-person weekly on five Thursdays at 6PM starting February 23, 2023, at the Brick Store Museum’s Program Center, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME.
Parking is available on Main Street, Dane Street and in the Town Hall parking lot.
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Admission by donation is suggested to help support our speakers. Registration is optional and suggested. Attend one or all four!
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Session I – March 2 (6PM), Visual Anthropology Introduction, featuring highlights of the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival in Finland. Presenter: Tim Spahr (Registered Professional Archaeologist, CPAA)
Session 2 – March 9 (6PM), Visual Studies Presentation & Student Exhibit Preview. Presenter: Anelli Allard, (MA Nordic Visual Studies & Art Education, Finland)
Session 3 – March 16 (6PM), Introduction to Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching for scientific documentation, Presenters: Tim Spahr & Elizabeth Kelley (Artist CPAA)
Session 4 – March 23 (6PM), Archaeological Field Note Taking and Sketching, viewing of lithic artifacts recovered by the Cape Porpoise Archeological Team. Students can produce field drawings from artifact models (materials provided). Led by Elizabeth Kelley
Session 5 – March 30 (6PM), Anthropological film viewing and discussion.
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REGISTER HERE >>

Illustrators' Roundtable & Dinner
2023-02-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
New this year! The Museum launches its History at Work roundtable series, focusing on the shared (but often different) experiences of those working in similar career fields.
For our inaugural episode, Maine illustrators will join us at the table for a fun, free-flowing discussion of their careers, artwork, and everything in between. This program is in conjunction with the current exhibition, “The Great State of Illustration in Maine,” curated by Illustration Institute.
Guests include: Scott Nash, Melissa Sweet, Chris van Dusen, Marty Braun, Leticia Plate and Rebekah Lowell.
The discussion takes place virtually on Zoom. Join us for the live event (details below), or wait for the interview to premiere a week later as a podcast.
Live Show Details:
Friday, February 24th @ 6:00pm
Watch the discussion live (via Zoom), and add to the experience with a catered, take-out, 3-Course dinner by For the Love of Food and Drink (menu details below)
MENU:

1st Course: Waldorf Salad

2nd Course (Choice of):

Cast Iron Pork Chop with Mushrooms
Roasted Chicken with Rosemary
Quinoa Stuffed Red Peppers

3rd Course: Coconut Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Tickets:
$10 per person / $5 Members and Donors (either organization)
$30 Dinner included / $25 for Members and Donors (either organization)
This event is a dual fundraiser for the Museum and Maine’s Illustration Institute!
CLICK HERE to order your tickets!

Paper Marbling Student Workshop
2023-02-23 12:30 - 14:30 | ME
This February Vacation workshop is for children 7-12. Students will have the opportunity to make decorative papers for book covers, bookmarks, cards and other crafts. Students will learn to marble paper in the traditional manner, by floating water-based paints onto a liquid surface and lifting these images .In addition, students will create decorative papers employing “faux” marbling techniques, using sponges, and feathers with water based paints to create patterns.
Instructor: Gayle Fitzpatrick
If class is cancelled because of snow it will be made up the following day at the same time.

Toy Creations Student Workshop
2023-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This February Vacation workshop is for children 7-12. In this class students will have the joy of making a one of a kind necklace that will feature a mixture of beads and plastic animals. Make your necklace shine by adding paint, beads, glitter and yarn.
Instructor: Elizabeth Winters
If class is cancelled because of snow it will be made up the following day at the same time.

REGISTER HERE

Paper Bowls Student Workshop
2023-02-21 12:30 - 14:30 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This February vacation workshop is for students 7 – 12. In this two-hour class, children will learn how to make 3D projects with paper mache. They will be using decorative colored papers, scraps of handmade paper and tissue papers to create a paper bowl, which does not need to be painted at completion. Students should bring a small plastic bowl (size of a cereal bowl) to class to use as a form for building.
Instructor: Gayle Fitzpatrick
REGISTER HERE
If event is cancelled because of weather it will take place the following day (February 22) at the same time.

Gelli Printing Student Workshop
2023-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This is a February vacation workshop for students 7-12. Students will learn to use a Gelli print pad to explore the art of stamping and monoprinting. They will use recycled and everyday items to print along with the use of a roller and acrylic paints. In addition students will experiment with different materials such as fabric.
REGISTER HERE
If event is cancelled because of weather it will take place the following day (February 22) at the same time.

Illustrator and Author Stephen Costanza Museum Visit
2023-02-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join author and illustrator, Stephen Costanza, February 11th at 2:00pm. Stephen will be playing Joplin piano rags on his keyboard as well as a reading from his popular children’s book “King of Ragtime”. Stephen will show some current work and works in progress and host a Q&A.

Stephen’s work is currently featured in “The Great State of Illustration in Maine,” curated by Illustration Institute, currently on exhibit at the Brick Store Museum until the end of February.

This is a FREE program including admission to the museum.

Wool Wrapped Heart Garland Workshop
2023-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
Join Beth Crowe at the Brick Store Museum on Tuesday, February 7th from 10 am – 12:00 pm. Participants will learn how to make wool wrapped hearts and create a Valentine’s Day garland to use for décor or to give as a gift.
Adults (ages 16+)
Minimum 5 participants/Maximum 12

REGISTER HERE
