On Thursday, April 16 at 1:30 p.m., the Baxter Memorial Library will be hosting “Experience Art.” The event features a lecture on the appreciation of art by USM Art Education faculty Sarah Warshaw and Mary Ledue-Bell. The afternoon will center around fun and engaging ways to experience art from the lens of personal experiences.

Two afternoon activities, “Token Response” and “Critical Response,” are games to spark conversations about art beginning from our own lives and expanding out from there. The games are designed to be light and engaging, and build confidence by providing easy tools for participants to enjoy and interpret art on their own.

The lecture will be followed by a short talk given by Denise Beck on how to ride the Greater Portland Metro. Following talks, the group will take a Metro bus to the Portland Museum of Art for a tour of the Museum’s collections. Admission to the museum is free. The bus ride is the usual fare. Registration is required by going to a link on the Baxter Library website.

The Museum tour will take about an hour and everyone should be back to the library by 6:30.
Be prepared to walk about a half mile to the bus stop and then from the Metro stop downtown to the Museum.