The Ashley Bryan Center is Joy.

It features sea glass, puppets, paintings, eighty years of creations, toys, poetry, and music—stories that make sense of a shared history, bringing people together through language, art and education.

The exhibit, “A Visit With Ashley Bryan,” features the astonishing range of the 90-year-old artist’s work—from his drawings, book illustrations, and paintings, to stained glass windows created from sea glass, to puppets constructed from objects Bryan finds on island beaches. It encompasses Bryan’s life in art: his childhood in the Bronx, NY, his studies at Cooper Union, his years teaching at Dartmouth College, and his time in Maine. Tales of his many journeys are recounted, including his life-changing connection to world-famous cellist, Pablo Casals, and never-before-displayed drawings Bryan created during his World War II service in the segregated United States army. Even on D-Day, Bryan concealed a sketchbook in his gas mask to draw his fellow soldiers, seeking, he says, “to preserve my humanity.”

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• This event has passed.
  June 25, 2014
  and every day until September 18, 2014

  June 25, 2014
• Islesford Historical Museum
  , Cranberry Isles, ME

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  207-244-7494 or [email protected]
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