HOULTON — The February/March featured artist show “Media Journey: Fiber, Paint, Digital & ‘?’,” with featured artist Leigh C. Griffith began with an artist reception Friday evening at the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project/Visions/ Blue Moon Gallery. The show runs until March 20.
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ON DISPLAY — The artwork of Leigh C. Griffith of Houlton is now being shown at the Blue Moon Gallery in downtown Houlton. Griffith’s show is titled “Media Journey: Fiber, Paint, Digital & ‘?’”
According to event organizers, the show was well attended, and what was striking aside from Griffith’s creative quilts, watercolors and acrylic paintings, cards, wearable textiles and digital ‘second-life’ designs … was that everywhere you looked, even overhead, there was another surprise piece just waiting to be discovered.
Griffith came to Houlton from the Farmington area in 2001 when her husband, Fred Griffith, took a teaching position at Houlton High School. She quickly became involved with the Friends and Needles Quilt Guild and the Houlton Community Chorus having participated in similar organizations in the past. She soon met local people involved in other aspects of the arts and began participating in events sponsored by the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project.
In the mid-‘90’s she began taking lessons on the harp in central Maine and was thrilled to find that she could continue this interest as well, taking lessons with Nancy Harris and eventually joining the Heavenly Harpers of Houlton. She has continued with the harp and is now with the five-member group, Kindred Harps, based in Houlton. Another artistic outlet Griffith enjoys is being a member of the local writing group, Shiretown Scribes, which meets every Wednesday evening at the Houlton Higher Education Center. Also, both she and her husband are actively involved with the Unitarian Universalist Church in Houlton.
The Blue Moon Gallery is located at 66 Main St. in Market Square.
