SEED Messages to the River Family Day
Sun, Aug 16
|Gibson Preserve
A storybook circle, art-making, lemonade and cookies, and a riverside scavenger hunt will get us in an imaginative spirit! Then we'll gather families for a special opportunity to offer seed sculptures to the St. George River at our Gibson Preserve in Searsmont.
Time & Location
Aug 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Gibson Preserve, 621 Woodmans Mill Rd, Searsmont, ME 04973, USA
About the event
A storybook circle, art-making, lemonade and cookies, and a riverside scavenger hunt will get us in an imaginative spirit! Then we'll gather families for a special opportunity to offer seed sculptures to the St. George River at our Gibson Preserve in Searsmont.
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SEED is a multi-site art project by Cushing-based artist and Maine Visual Arts Fellow Lihua Lei Farley, which invites the community to draw closer to the St. George River and respark childlike wonder. Comprising a sculpture installation in Bernard Langlais’s workshop at the Langlais Art Preserve in Cushing; two events along northern and central sections of the St. George River in Thomaston and Searsmont; and a closing performance at a special site where the river meets the sea at…