Programs & Events
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Summer 2024
Cushing Community School Little Sprouts Plant & Seedling Sale
It’s now a tradition! Pick out your season’s vegetable and flower seedlings, herbs, and perennials, a baked good or two, and more.
Hosted by the Cushing Community School Friends & Family Group.
Barn Studio & Workshop Opening Day
Extend your visit with some nature-inspired creativity in our new community art-making space, explore Langlais’s workshop, and watch an historic film of the art environment.
Paint the Preserve with Elizabeth O’Reilly Summer Painting Workshop
Join or observe plein air artists as they work outdoors amid the sculptures, barns, ponds, fields, and forest. Everyone is invited to set up an easel or bring along a sketchpad.
Creative Nature Summer Camp: Wild Colors
Monday–Thursday, 9AM–3PM | Grades K-5 - $240
We’ll delve into the colors of the Langlais Preserve by creating pigments from plants and other organic materials.
Paint the Preserve with the Cushing Collaborative
Join or observe plein air artists as they work outdoors amid the sculptures, barns, ponds, fields, and forest. Everyone is invited to set up an easel or bring along a sketchpad.
Creative Nature Summer Camp: Capturing Light
Monday–Thursday, 9AM–3PM | Grades K-5 - $240
We’ll uncover the secrets of cyanotype, the captivating photographic art form that uses sunlight to create printed images.
Family Wild Edible Plant Walk
$20/Adult | $10/Kid under 12
Join local forager Rachel Alexandrou to learn what plants around us are easy and safe to identify and eat from the woods to the shore.
Creative Nature Summer Camp: Foraging Fun
Monday–Thursday, 9AM–3PM | Grades K-5 - $240
We’ll learn to safely identify and harvest common edible plants and fun ways to prepare them.
Creative Nature Summer Camp: Bookmaking
Monday–Thursday, 9AM–3PM | Grades K-5 - $240
Plants and animals that grow, bloom, wiggle, and fly will inspire accordion books made with guest artist Rebecca Goodale.
Paint the Preserve with the Midcoast Plein Air Painters
Join or observe plein air artists as they work outdoors amid the sculptures, barns, ponds, fields, and forest. Everyone is invited to set up an easel or bring along a sketchpad.
Creative Nature Summer Camp: Puppets at the Preserve
Monday–Thursday, 9AM–3PM | Grades K-5 - $240
Blending art, drama, and imaginative play, we’ll craft magical puppets and bring children's stories to life.