July 26th-October 1st, 2026
Seeds & Threads
by Dr. Rachael M Rollson
(as part of the wild apotropaic)
A collage series extending the thoughts of the revolutionary quote ‘they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds’ along with trying to make sense in ‘these troubled times’. These days many of us are holding on by a thread. When the thread thins and breaks, we knot it back together – it’s all we can do. We knot to count the days, we knot to make do, we knot to mark the events where we needed to remember our ‘seedness.’ We have all we need inside of us (somewhere) to start anew. More...
September 6th-October 11th, 2026
PORTAL (good life)
by Heather Lyon
Heather Lyon is an artist with a deep connection to the place we now call the Blue Hill peninsula. She was born on a farm in Blue Hill, Maine to parents involved in the back-to-the-land movement that was inspired by the work of Helen and Scott Nearing. In 2009 she returned to the land that her parents farmed, and built a small off-the-grid solar timber frame using natural building techniques. As a teenager she worked for the homesteader Stanley Joseph, neighbor of the Nearings, who lived in the Nearing's first homestead in Harborside. Stanely taught her to make dried flower wreaths with flowers from his garden. More...
Past Exhibitions
After a successful run in Portland, the exhibition Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History travels to The Good Life Center in Brooksville for the 2026 season. Reaching back 300 years, Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History features stories of Mainers who changed what vegetarians eat and opened access to plant-based foods. Learn about the riots, activist newspapers, prophecies and back-to-the-landers who have influenced Maine’s vegetarian culture. Among these prominent influencers were Helen and Scott Nearing, who ate their vegetable meals with wooden bowls, chopsticks and spoons, and cooked them on the Glenwood wood-fired cookstove, all of which remain on view at the Good Life Center. Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History was co-curated by Avery Yale Kamila, independent history researcher, and John Babin, author, and the first-of-its-kind exhibition was on view at the Maine Historical Society museum from Sept. 10, 2024 to May 31, 2025.