Linda Buckmaster will give a walking tour of her traveling literary exhibit, “Of Cod and Communities,” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Camden Public Library at 55 Main St. The inside talk is the kickoff the for the exhibit’s residency in the Picker Gallery for the month of August.

The exhibit is adapted from Buckmaster’s book “Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands,” a finalist in the Maine Literary Awards. For the exhibit Buckmaster collaborated with Portland designer Lori Harley to create eight 3-foot by 5-foot soft fabric banners printed with text and images to reflect the centuries-long interrelationships between the North Atlantic cod and humans on both sides of the Atlantic. For the walk, Buckmaster will talk about the social content of the banners and the process of creating them with more than 30 images, according to a news release from Julia Sagaser with the library.

The exhibit is traveling to coastal libraries over the year. Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport is a co-sponsor, and the exhibit is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Buckmaster has lived within a block of the Atlantic most of her life, growing up in Florida and living in midcoast Maine for 50 years. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern Maine, and her poetry, essay, and fiction have appeared in over 40 journals.

She was previously Atlantic and Gulf Editor for “National Fisherman.” Two of her pieces have been listed as Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2013 and 2020. Her hybrid, “Elemental: A Miscellany of Salt Cod and Islands” (Huntress Press 2022), is the first installment in a series of creative and eclectic responses to the beauties and realities of islands across the North Atlantic Rim.

For more information, email Sagaser at [email protected].

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