Creating New Ways For Visitors to Experience Acadia
Art and artists played a key role in the history of Maine’s Downeast Region, and the founding of Acadia National Park. The Artist-in-Residence program is dedicated to creating new ways for visitors to experience Acadia through the arts. Since 2023, the program's operational costs have been funded fully by donations from sales proceeds at America’s National Park Stores (Eastern National) stores throughout the park
This is an extensive and ever-evolving online catalog of participants and the artwork they have created through this program for more than 30 years. See for yourself how Acadia continues to inspire accomplished painters, illustrators, photographers, metalsmiths, textile artists, poets, essayists, composers, digital animators and dancers as well as a playwright, food writer, and stand-up comic. Enjoy.
More than a dozen visual art pieces from the Artist-in-Residence program currently are displayed in public spaces in Acadia. To make the gallery experience more inclusive for people who have visual impairments, a recorded audio description and transcript are offered at the top of each artwork's entry in the program's online catalog. In this tour, each displayed artwork is presented in sequence along with directions to navigate the physical space.