increase font size
Farnsworth offers special Wyeth Day presentation with Jamie Wyeth The virtual conversation focuses on Betsy Wyeth s recent gift of 27 works to the Rockland museum.
Share Islander, a 1975 oil on canvas by Jamie Wyeth. Bequest of Betsy J. Wyeth, 2021
ROCKLAND On Monday, July 12, the Farnsworth Art Museum celebrates Wyeth Day with a special virtual presentation on Zoom. The program will feature a conversation between artist Jamie Wyeth and Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky focused on the recent gift by Betsy Wyeth to the museum of 27 works by three generations of Wyeths. The program will take place beginning at 5 p.m., and is sponsored by The Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation.
increase font size
Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute Blue Summer by Jim Nichols won for fiction, and Kerri Asenault s Mill Town for nonfiction.
Share
Maine writers and readers celebrated the year’s top books during an online Maine Literary Awards ceremony Thursday evening, hosted by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
The annual competition is open to all Maine residents, and includes categories for published books, as well as drama, short works and student writing. Nearly 300 writers sent work for consideration.
Carolyn Chute won the 2021 MWPA Distinguished Achievement Award “for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts as a fiction writer.” Portland writer Ron Currie Jr. presented the award and read remarks prepared by Chute.
Maine Literary Awards names winners, honors Carolyn Chute centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Beneficence,’ ‘Sigh, Gone’ among Maine Literary Awards finalists
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance will reveal the winners during an online ceremony May 27.
Share
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance announced finalists for the 2021 Maine Literary Awards on Thursday. The winners will be revealed May 27, when the awards are presented via Zoom, beginning at 7 p.m. Nearly 300 writers and publishers submitted works for consideration by more than 40 jurors.
The finalists:
Claire Ackroyd, “Murder in the Maple Woods”
Book Award for Fiction
Kate Kennedy, “Skin: A Memoir”
Éireann Lorsung, “The Century”
Michael K. Komanecky, Jane Biano, and Angela Waldron, “Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art Museum”
A sumptuous guide to the studios of 26 Maine artists, living and dead pressherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.