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Over 20 years of inspiring art on MDI
SOUTHWEST HARBOR Teaching art was not something Mike Duffy set out to do.
“I started as a graphic designer,” he said in a recent interview with the Islander. “I kind of fell into teaching by accident, filling in for a friend, teaching comic book art.”
More than 20 years later, any child who has an interest in art and grew up on Mount Desert Island has likely been instructed and/or guided by Duffy. He first made his way here in 1998, volunteering as a drawing artist at Camp Beech Cliff during the summer.
“I had a ball,” he recalls, adding there were only about 60 campers at that time. “It was fun showing them how to draw things.”