Quoddy Tides Foundation

4b preservation - following the removal of the asbestos siding on the exterior of the 1819 north church building, the organization had the original wood siding underneath repaired and installed a new roof over the sanctuary space. The organization took the first steps to create a small park at the rear of the organization's seaman's church building with the removal of several trees.

4c -education the organization presented two exhibitions in 2024, at the main building that were extremely well received: "home, downeast: wood engravings of pauline winchester inman" featuring a selection of 27 wood engraving prints and wood blocks by the artist that are part of a much larger gift of her works by eugene and marilyn ostreicher to the permanent collections; and "edward burtynsky: a visual archaeology" featuring eight large-scale color photographs on loan from the beaverbrook art gallery in fredericton, new brunswick, thanks to support from the unobskey foundation. Honor wilkinson, who joined the organization's staff as consulting curator, organized both exhibitions. Foster new work in 2024, 17 artists, including three alumni, were invited to live and work at the organization's studioworks artist-in- residence program, in its 12th year. Artists came from california, washington dc, massachusetts, florida, oregon, ireland and northern ireland and india, and other locations, and their work ranged from large scale paintings to small intimate drawings, from sculpture to multi- media installations. Their public talks and workshops reflected this range of contemporary work. Alumni karen stentaford returned to take tintype portraits at studioworks. The first contingent of artists and curators stayed and worked at the organization's seligmann cottage in cape split, maine under the guidance of alumni artist, tessa green o'brien, in november, the organization welcomed geshe tsewang dorje, of india who, with others, created a sand mandala at studioworks as part of a cultural exchange. Partnerships in 2024, the organization worked with donald soctomah, historic preservation director of the passamaquoddy tribe, and dwayne tomah, director of the sipayik museum, to install a bronze descriptive plaque in passamaquoddy and english for the place name muselenk (eastport) on the front of the first floor of the masonic hall building. This is the first time and only place that the passamaquoddy written language is visible in eastport. We were invited to take part in a career day at sipayik elementary school and presented materials and talks on what it is like to work at a museum. Alison caldwell-beers, the organization's education specialist, continued her monthly outreach programs to the eastport senior center and developed programs for local schools and other groups. Tima staff and artists-in-residence presented art making activities at six festivals and in the studioworks building and worked in partnership with the downeast rainbow alliance, the downeast teen leadership camp, eastport artfests, and other organizations