BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 RDATE:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 RDATE:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 RDATE:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/New_York EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180809T100000 RDATE:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 RDATE:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 RDATE:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7402610ece31cf707b5e7df16ece540b CATEGORIES:Arts, Entertainment, Libraries & Museums CREATED:20190607T123346 SUMMARY:Sculptor in Residence LOCATION:Stevens Commons\, Beech Street\, Hallowell DESCRIPTION:
Everyone is invited to visit Stevens Commons every Saturday from 10am to 2pm beginning May 18, 2019 to watch local stone-carver Jon Doody create a sculpture out of Hallowell granite.
Jon Doody is an Augusta based scu lptor who has been juried in as a professional member of the Maine Stonewor kers Guild, a group dedicated to supporting fellow artists by sharing skill s and techniques and introducing the art of stone carving to the public. As a Guild member, Jon has participated in public demonstrations at the Commo n Ground Fair, Boothbay Railway Village, Viles Arboretum and now this summe r he’ll be working outdoors at Stevens Commons in Hallowell.
Jon expl ains, “I enjoy working in public, sharing my process. I have learned that p eople become more involved and far more appreciative of art when they can o bserve the actual process as it takes place. I have never felt a need to hi de my skills, actually just the opposite. I feel a kind of obligation to sh ow others what I have learned. To pass on to others what can be done. To sh ow them that carving even something as hard and as permanent as stone need not be intimidating.”
Jon will be carving a large piece of Hallowell granite donated by the city of Hallowell with the assistance and support of the Hallowell Public Works Department. According to the artist, “I work in reclaimed materials whenever possible. I explain my art as being the conti nuation of the story of the piece that I have worked. The majority of my ca rvings come from materials cast off or rejected. I try to find a new way to enjoy them and my carvings include the marks of my materials former lives. For example, I completed a carving in marble reclaimed from the Maine Stat e House renovations of the '80's, and included in the piece a poem that I w rote and hand translated into multiple languages to welcome newcomers to Ma ine.”
Hallowell’s 2019 Summer Sculptor in Residence program is presen
ted in partnership by Stevens Commons and the Hallowell Arts & Cultural
Committee, a city committee that works to build and strengthen community r
elationships through the arts, recognizing the diverse culture of the City
of Hallowell in both the past and present. The Arts and Cultural Committee
is working on further plans to bring artists and granite sculpture to Hallo
well as a way of celebrating the city’s long history as a renowned center o
f the granite industry and the related art of stone-carving through the 180
0s. To volunteer or contribute to support the Hallowell Arts and Cultural C
ommittee in their efforts to bring granite sculpture to Hallowell, please c
ontact committee chair Deb Fahy at
If you go:
Saturdays 10am to 2pm beginning May 18
, 2019 (weather permitting).
Free and open to the public.
On the
grounds of Stevens Commons across from # 2 Beech Street, Hallowell, Maine.
For information about Hallowell’s granite industry visit Historic Hal
lowell on Maine Memory Network: http://historichall
owell.mainememory.net/page/1506/display.html