Langlais Sculpture Preserve
Town: Cushing
Acres: 90
Miles of trail: 1
Activities: Hiking, birding, hunting
The Langlais Sculpture Preserve features large wooden art sculptures on the 90-acre homestead of renowned Maine artist, Bernard “Blackie” Langlais and his wife Helen in midcoast Maine. “Blackie” created more than 3,500 indoor and outdoor works of art during his lifetime that are unique, edgy, very imaginative, and engaging to young and old. A partnership with the Kohler Foundation Inc. and Colby College Museum of Art led us to steward this blending of art and nature.
Support Our Langlais Art
Please help us keep the art alive and open to the public with a gift of support.
- Twelve large wooden art sculptures were restored on site by the Kohler Foundation Inc. who gifted the property to the Georges River Land Trust in November 2015.
- Visit our online Langlais photo gallery.
- Want to find more Langlais art in Maine? Visit The Langlais Art Trail where more than fifty institutions in more than forty Maine communities now display artworks by Langlais.
- We partnered with Leaps of Imagination to host summer art camp for kids at the Langlais Preserve.
- Together with the Maine Master Gardener Volunteer program, we’ve created a native plant garden to provide essential habitat for bees, birds, and butterflies. We’re happy to share the plant list and planting design.
- Take a quick tour in this video made by friend and former staffer Taylor Stenger
Public Access
The Langlais Sculpture Preserve is open to the public for day-use only; no overnight camping is allowed. In addition to the ADA-accessible trail around the sculptures, a .5-mile trail takes visitors inland into the wooded portion of the property. Hunting is permitted with prior permission.
Download a printable map.
Directions to the Property
From Route 1 in Thomaston, head south on Wadsworth Street, and continue straight on Brooklyn Heights Rd./River Rd. for 3.2 miles. The Preserve is located on the right at 576 River Road, Cushing, and is open from dawn to dusk with a 1/4 mile ADA-accessible path. A wheelchair is available when docents are on site.
Videos About Langlais
We are fortunate to host a collection of videos about Langlais – how this preserve came to be, the sculpture conservators at work, historical footage, and oral histories about Langlais’ time in Cushing.
LSP In the News
“Art, Land, People: The Bernard Langlais Sculpture Preserve,” Christopher Crosman, The Free Press, January 17, 2023
“Return of the Native,” Antiques Magazine, July 2021
Yankee Magazine “Best Outdoor Museum,” April 2021
Nature and Art Education at LSP
LEAPS of IMAGINATION Kids Explore LSP
Portland Press Herald, Sept. 10 2017
The Free Press, Sept. 7, 2017