Bath’s next 3rd Friday ArtWalk will take place tonight, July 18, from 5-8 p.m, offering the opportunity to see the work of over 30 artists in open studios and downtown galleries.

In coordination with the July ArtWalk, an Open Studio Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, July 19 & 20 will extend July’s Bath ArtWalk at selected locations throughout the weekend on Saturday and Sunday, July 19 & 20, 2014. If you haven’t been able to make Friday evenings, or to fit in a visit to all the ArtWalk locations, here is your opportunity to see more of the work of Bath’s arts community.

Open Studio Weekend galleries and artists are:

· Centre St. Arts Gallery
11 Centre Street
· Chocolate Church Arts Gallery
804 Washington Street
· Coastal Art Glass
233 Water Street (enter from
the municipal parking lot)
· Daniele Lambrechts Studio
1321 Washington Street
· Elaine Reed Studio
133 Oak Street
· Felicity Sidwell Fine Art Gallery
79 Wallace Circle, Phippsburg
· Greater Brunswick Physical
Therapy (group exhibit),
101 Centre Street, Bath
· Jean Jack
944 Middle Street
· Judson Pottery
52 Front Street (3rd floor)

· Kennebec Company
(group exhibit), Customs House,
1 Front Street
· Maryanna Bock Gallery
569 Berry’s Mill Road
· Tom Paiement Studio
Corner of Centre and Water
Street (behind Bath Natural
Market, rear entrance, 3rd floor)

· Wayne Robbins Wood Carving
1302 High Street

During the 3rd Friday ArtWalk, there will be refreshments in various venues including an ArtWalk Wine Tasting at Now You’re Cooking featuring artisan wines from the Crush portfolio, Caroline Cotter, an accomplished songwriter who sets her songs to guitar and tenor banjo on the sidewalk at Front and Centre Street. Cotter will then open for Cilantro in a 3rd Friday concert at the Chocolate Church immediately following at 7:30 p.m.

The Chocolate Church Gallery exhibit will be open from 5-8 p.m.

Centre St Arts Gallery will hold an artists’ reception for guest artist Sylvia Bangs. Bangs draws exclusively in black and white pen and ink. Her original drawings are reflect a deep feeling of certain animals of New England and the world.

Markings Gallery’s new show “The Cottage Garden” explores floral motifs. Nan Kilbourn-Tara has explored every imaginable flower on her new dinnerware line, a great companion to her Terra cotta vegetable series. Liz Stoyko’s hooked woolen pillows are lush with beautiful garden scenes. A layered assemblage floor cloths by Mary Lynn Engel suggests the palettes of Mexico City and India. Carolyn Judson presents a special series of clay tulips and Janice Wright, Phippsburg, has made flower motif clay tiles. Garden and summer cottage themes are also represented by Maine artists Hellen Farnham’s felt, Hillary Hutton’s woven rugs, botanicals by Patty Olds, Judith Barker’s flower jewelry in sterling silver and the all time favorite found object garden sculptures by Jim and Holly Gallante.

During the Bath ArtWalk, the Friends of the Zorach Fountain will pay homage to one of the preservation organization’s leading lights with their one-night exhibition of drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings by the late Barbara Sargent. The exhibition will take place at the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington Street, Bath.