Michael Berryhill paints a wall at Common Street Arts in Waterville Tuesday in prepartion for the exhibit "Skowhegan at 70." Berryhill, a New York artist, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was later a dean. The exhibition opens Wednesday and continues into September.
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Madison, was created out of farm buildings on the 150-acre farm it was founded on in 1946. Common Street Arts in Waterville is holding an exhibition on the school's work and history, beginning Wednesday.
Sarah Workneh, co-director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, hangs a piece of art in Common Street Arts gallery before the exhibit celebrating the school's 70th anniversary opens.
Photographs of the farm in Madison that became the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The school's work and history is the subject of an exhibit at Common Street Arts in Waterville that opens Wednesday.
Artist Michael Berryhill, who attended the Skowhegan School and was later a dean paints a wall red the day before the exhibit on the school's art and work opens Wednesday.
A painting from 1957 by John Warren Udvardy depicts the inside of the fresco barn at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Paintings from the program lay next to a ladder as directors from the school work to set up the exihibit at Common Street Arts.
A painting of downtown Skowhegan waits to be hung up for the exhibit at Common Street Arts.
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