NORWAY — Western Foothills Land Trust (WFLT) recently announced the second iteration of the “Clothesline Project” a series of temporary outdoor art exhibitions created by four local artists, to be hung at Shepard’s Farm Preserve.

The Preserve, located at 121 Crockett Ridge Road, is part of a larger 272-acre conservation area that wraps around Witt Swamp. The “Clothesline Project” pays homage to the history of the Penley Clothespin Company, formerly of West Paris. Through this project, the land trust hopes to reinforce the community’s memory of a once huge local industry (wooden clothespins) that will reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has inspired connection to natural landscape and art in our everyday lives.

In 2018, a half-mile universally accessible trail at Shepard’s Farm with funding from The Davis Family Foundation, The Stephens Healthcare Foundation, Norway Savings Bank, and the Maine Arts Commission. The trail provides a pleasurable wander through a former agricultural landscape and provides access to six Bernard Langlais sculptures. Eventually the Trust would like to add to the permanent outdoor collection at the preserve. This project, more temporary in scale, will provide an introduction to new artists, new materials, and new concepts of visual art at the preserve.

The project is being administered by Diana Arcadipone of The Folk Arts Studio at Fiber&Vine in Norway. Four artists were selected for exhibitions to be installed outdoors between July through September. Selected artists will participate in a preview opening on June 25, providing a taste of what’s to come on the 20-foot clothesline. The four local artists selected and their exhibition dates are as follows:

•  Preview Opening is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. June 25;

•  Mary Delano will be featured July 16-26;

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•  Nikki Millonzi work will be on view Aug. 6-16;

•  Virginia Valdes art can been seen Aug. 20-30; and

•  Kimberly Hamlin will close the project Sept. 10-20.

The 2021 Clothesline Project is made possible through the generous support of The David Nichols Charitable Trust.

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