Gilley celebrates anniversary with monthly speaker series
PHOTO COURTESY OF BARRY VAN DUSEN
SOUTHWEST HARBOR This year, in honor of the Wendell Gilley Museum’s 40th anniversary, the museum is launching a monthly speaker series that will bring artists, writers, carvers and creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to share how nature impacts their art and their approach to making it, and how their art affects their approach to the natural world.
First up is wildlife artist Barry van Dusen. Van Dusen is an internationally respected and award-winning wildlife artist who was one of two artists to provide illustrations for the 2020 book “Birds of Maine,” the first comprehensive overview of Maine’s avian inhabitants in more than seven decades. For another book published in 2020, “Finding Sanctuary: An Artist Explores the Nature of Mass Audubon,” he provided all the text as well as the illustrations, based on his visits to all 60 Mass Audubon sites over