ATTENTION ARTISTS + ART LOVERS: Ogunquit is hosting its 2nd Annual Plein Air Painting Event in beautiful Perkins Cove on Saturday, September 10th, 2022. Rain Date: September, 11th, 2022.
If you attend Ogunquit, Maine’s 2nd Annual Perkins Cove Plein Air Event, you’ll be able to enjoy the timeless sight of plein air painters in the act of putting brush to canvas in (and around) Perkins Cove — the heart of the Ogunquit Art Colony — from 9am through 2pm.
Then, between 2:30pm and 3:30pm there will be judging in Perkins Cove for Professional and Amateur awards PLUS the David Lussier Gallery of Excellence Amateur Award. All in, artists will be competing for over $3400 worth of prizes!
RELATED: Be certain to stop in at the NEW David Lussier Gallery in Kittery (66 Wallingford Square, Kittery Maine)! Click Here to learn more!
Perkins Cove will also be the site of a Wet Paint Sale (from 3:30pm until 5pm) where you’ll have the chance to purchase a one of a kind piece from the “beautiful place by sea” that you’ll cherish forever before the paint is even fully dry!
There will also be historical tours, art history talks, artist demonstrations, AND live music in Perkins Cove! Click here to visit the new Perkins Cove Plein Air website (designed by Barometer Media).
RELATED: Have you seen some of the AMAZING work and Ogunquit Art Colony history being shared at our Ogunquit Art Colony Facebook Group?
2022 Perkins Cove Plein Air Painting Event Judge
The judge for the Ogunquit, Maine’s 2022 Perkins Cove Plain Air Event is Eric Jacobsen.
Eric Jacobsen was born and raised in New England. He received a BA in History from Gordon College in Wenham, MA in 1989 and studied fine art at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT from 1991-1995. At the Academy he received training in the Beaux Arts tradition of drawing and painting from life.
Learn More about Eric Jacobson: jacobsenfineart.com
Additional Information about Ogunquit’s 2nd Annual Perkins Cove Plein Air Painting Event
There are very few towns in the world, especially tiny towns like Ogunquit, that have been depicted so many times by such a wide variety of artists over the years.
Throughout the decades, this “beautiful place by the sea” has seen a non-stop parade of colorful artists drawing, painting, etching and photographing each and every one of its visually-enticing nooks and crannies. Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, Maine is truly hallowed ground when it comes to American art history. The birthplace of the storied Ogunquit Art Colony now also serves as the beating heart of one of Maine’s most important cultural happenings: Ogunquit’s Perkins Cove Plein Air Art Event.
In addition to seeing painters along Marginal Way and down to Perkins Cove, the entire day will be filled with even more activities including live music, painting demonstrations, and historical art talks.
Make a full day of it! See the artists, dine at a local restaurants, drink-in the salty scenery, and relax to our schedule of live music in Perkins Cove!
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