Check back often to find out what is going on at the Abbe Museum. Workshops for kids and adults, demonstrations by Native artists, performances by Native musicians, lectures from noted scholars, exciting and fun events and learning experiences, happen throughout the year.

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Today is the day a Bar Harbor tradition opens for the season. Take a trip to the original Abbe Museum, located trail side in Acadia National Park since 1928.  The exhibits are intriguing and the natural surroundings are inspiring. 

Coming to us from the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine, Orono, Transcending Traditions features five contemporary Maine Indian basketmakers who represent the next generation: Jeremy Frey, Ganessa Bryant, Sarah Sockbeson, George Neptune and Eric “Otter” Bacon.

 

Each of these artists has been commissioned to create a masterwork for the exhibit section that will showcases their work. This piece along with other baskets made by the artist from private and institutional collections will trace how his or her work  has evolved. Each exhibit section will also feature a basket made by the person who taught them how to make baskets. The goal of this project is to explore the new directions that these innovative artists are taking the tradition in the face of environmental and economic challenges.

 

Supported by a grant from the National Museum of the American Indian's Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program.

 

The exhibit was created as a collaboration between the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and the Hudson Museum.