On Sunday, Oct. 17, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will host Douglas Brooks—boatbuilder, visiting master, writer, researcher, and winner of the 2014 Rare Craft Fellowship Award—for a demonstration on Japanese boatbuilding techniques and a slide presentation following the arc of his work in Japan apprenticing under seven different master boatbuilders.  

During the demonstration, scheduled for 2–4pm in CBMM’s working Shipyard, Brooks will fit two planks in the Japanese fashion. Then, he will use a special set of chisels to cut pilot holes for the nails and edge-nail the planks together. Brooks will discuss the tools and techniques specific to boatbuilding in Japan as well, and how these techniques are completely at odds with methods used in the west.  

Following the demonstration, from 4:30–6pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium, Brooks will give a presentation titled, “Ways of learning: An apprentice boatbuilder in Japan.” Guests may attend the demonstration and talk for $35 per person, or the talk only for $15 per person. A 20% discount is available for CBMM members, with registration for all required to cbmm.org/JapaneseBoatbuilding. 

The 2021 AASLH Online Conference will be held October 12-15 and registration is now open. While the Online Conference shares the theme Doing History/Doing Justice with the Little Rock meeting and is designed to be an inspirational and informative experience, it has a completely different lineup of sessions, both live and pre-recorded. The AASLH Online Conference offers flexibility and accessibility for your conference experience. With twelve pre-recorded sessions, you can review presentations on your schedule, then join live discussion groups for Q&A with speakers and other attendees. Our live interactive sessions allow speakers to share their stories, strategies, and expertise while connecting participants to each other. Pricing also makes this experience more accessible than ever before: $55 for members, $75 for nonmembers, and free access to three general sessions.  You can find the full schedule here, and we’d like to share a few of the events we’re most looking forward to below.  Oct. 12: Session: Institutional Genealogy: The Role of Knowing Our Past in the Pursuit of Equity This session guides participants through interactive peer-to-peer facilitated conversations about what it means when our organizational pasts intersect with systems of injustice and oppression. This session focuses on identifying lessons from the past and using them to build confidence in our home organization’s role in a more just future.  Oct. 13: General Session: Doing History, Doing Democracy As history organizations work to be relevant, effective civic engagement is essential. As we do this work more deliberately, it makes sense to understand the landscape and to collaborate with others supporting the democratic project in our own country and abroad. This session will highlight current partnerships and prompt participants to identify their own strategies for engagement.  Oct. 14: General Session: From the Ground Up: Land and History The historical importance of land to our communities is an essential element of many environmental organizations’ rationale for protecting it. This session explores our relationship to land, our perception of what it means to inhabit—or “own”—it, and how it has shaped people’s lives, past, and present. Oct. 15: Session: Recovering Lost Communities: The Potential of Digital History Presenters will demonstrate and discuss recently developed web environments for exploring local history by applying them to an understanding of communities that were lost to urban development, industrialization, or neglect.

The 18^th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) is coming to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, with the exhibition to be hosted in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Steamboat Building in St. Michaels, Md., from Oct. 22, 2021, through Feb. 22, 2022. 

On the heels of the American Society of Marine Artists’ 40th anniversary, the ASMA biennial exhibition is a juried selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, scrimshaw, and hand-pulled prints submitted by members. The ASMA 18th National Exhibition will include work by many of the most prominent contemporary marine artists working in the nation today. 

“We are thrilled to once again bring the nation’s best contemporary marine art to CBMM for our members and guests to take in and enjoy,” said CBMM President Kristen Greenaway. “We identify with the mission of ASMA, as we both raise appreciation for maritime culture and the marine environment to inspire stewardship.”  

The American Society of Marine Artists is a non-profit educational organization whose purpose is to recognize and promote marine art and maritime history and to encourage cooperation among artists, historians, academics, enthusiasts, and others engaged in activities relating to marine art. Its nearly 500 members include painters, sculptors, scrimshanders, and printmakers, all drawing inspiration from a relationship with the water. That inspiration comes from a wide range of locations and experiences that include waters both navigable and discreet and activities both carefully researched from history and observed directly from life.  

“The founders of American Society of Marine Artists were mostly painters of tall ships and other vessels that ply the high seas. While maritime history is still at the core of our mission, today’s members also capture life under the sea, along the shorelines, and even in ponds, streams, and boathouses. The work contained in this exhibition truly does represent the finest in contemporary marine art,” said ASMA President Lisa Egeli. “Our gratitude goes to the artists, the museums, the collectors, and the volunteers who support us, and the viewing public who will turn out to experience this wonderful presentation.”  

Entry to the exhibition is free for CBMM members or with general admission. At CBMM, the ASMA 18th National Exhibition is supported in part by Irmhild & Philip Webster. 

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) Store is pleased to announce that it is partnering with photographic artist Karen Clark to present a one-day, one-woman Pop-Up Show & Sale of Karen’s work on Saturday, September 25, 2021, from 11 am-2 pm on the museum’s picturesque patio overlooking the Harbor.

Karen Clark grew up in Massachusetts and spent summers in Cape Cod and Maine, where she fell in love with the ocean and simultaneously developed a passion for art. Of her work, she says “I see art in everything. It’s the way I’ve always been. I feel grateful to experience the world in such a beautiful and visual way.” She gathers materials at the tideline for her current work of photographing the natural beauty of seaweed. While some might overlook seaweed as an art material, or simply pass by it without a second glance, Karen is drawn to it for its colors, textures and form. Her photographic art involves layering and playing with the organic materials, typically on the very same day she finds it, as the vibrancy of the colors fade if kept too long.  

While Karen spent much of her career as a professional photographer, she and her husband shifted gears and now own Whimsy Antiques, a playful vintage shop in Carpinteria. 

NEXT TUESDAY, September 21st, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation invites you to join us for a Blue Beacon Series discussion, where Indigenous leaders from current and proposed sanctuaries will share how the involvement of their communities in stewardship of special places in the ocean benefits both people and place.

Join us on Facebook Live or livestreamed on our website at 7:00pm ET!

We are honored to be joined by Indigenous leaders, who will discuss how the inclusion of native Hawaiian cultural and conservation principles in the co-management of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument has inspired other proposed national marine sanctuaries that celebrate and preserve cultural heritage, such as the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, along California’s central coast.

• Kalani Quiocho, Cultural Resources Coordinator, Pacific Islands Region, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
• Brad Kaʻaleleo Wong, Kūkulu Papahānaumokuākea Program Specialist, Office of Hawaiian Affairs
• Violet Sage Walker, Vice Chairwoman, Northern Chumash Tribal Council

We will also honor Patrick Pletnikoff, mayor of St. George Island in Alaska, who recently passed away. Mayor Pletnikoff was a steadfast proponent of a new marine sanctuary centered on the Unangan (Aleut) people.

Find biographies of our speakers on our website.

The virtual event will take place on Facebook Live at 7:00pm ET through our Blue Beacon Series: Embracing Collaborative Conservation in Future Sanctuaries Facebook event page and will also be streamed on our website.

RSVP today on the Facebook event page as “Going” or “Interested” to join us for this meaningful conversation. Mark your calendars – we look forward to seeing you on September 21st!

South Street Seaport Museum will be a part of in the Tribute in Light, a commemorative public art installation first presented six months after 9/11 and then every year thereafter, from dusk to dawn on the night of September 11. It has become an iconic symbol that both honors those killed and celebrates the unbreakable spirit of New York. 
The Seaport Museum will light blue the historic 1885 tall ship Wavertree on Pier 16 (Fulton and South Streets) and the 1913 Titanic Memorial Lighthouse (Fulton and Water Streets). 
Capt. Jonathan Boulware, President and CEO of the South Street Seaport Museum, said, “On this 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the South Street Seaport Museum is honored to partner with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in participating in ‘Tribute in Light’ by lighting up our 1885 tall ship Wavertree and the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse in sky blue. That day in our history had a tremendous impact on our beloved New York City and on the Museum and its staff, both then and now. Tonight, we collectively remember lives lost and forever changed as we pause to reflect on the moments of human and urban resilience that unfolded in the aftermath.” 
As an extension of Tribute in Light, for the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum has once again partnered with NYC & Company and buildings throughout the city to light up their facades and rooftops in sky blue. Tribute in Light is a unique, but simple gesture of collective remembrance that will illuminate the city on the evening of September 11.
Current participants include the Empire State Building, Bloomberg L.P., the Perelman Performing Arts Center, One World Trade Center, 7 WTC, the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Plaza, New-York Historical Society, The Oculus, Brookfield Place, New York City Hall, Governors Island, Edge, RXR Realty, Helmsley Building, Bank of America Tower, Alexandria Real Estate, Barclays Bank, Bloomingdale’s 59th Street, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Greater Ridgewood Historical Society – the Vander Ende Onderdonk Museum, NYC Fire Museum, Museum of the City of New York, National Lighthouse Museum, Alice Austen House, Pier 17 New York, 55 Water Street, Con Edison, Hudson Yards, DSNY Salt Shed Complex, NY Hall of Science, Queens Borough Hall, QC New York Spa, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge, JFK Air Traffic Control Tower, LGA West Parking Garage façade, Niagara Falls, Circle Line, NY Waterway, South Cove Marina, Bronx Terminal Market, The Shops at Columbus Circle, One Vanderbilt, 1515 Broadway, and the Times Square Ball. For more information, visit 911memorial.org/visit/memorial/tribute-light. 
About the Tribute Assembled on the roof of the Battery Parking Garage south of the 9/11 Memorial, the twin beams reach up to four miles into the sky and are comprised of eighty-eight 7,000-watt xenon lightbulbs positioned into two 48-foot squares, echoing the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers. The installation can also be viewed from a 60-mile radius around lower Manhattan.
The presentation of Tribute in Light has been made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Linda Haugland Family Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Tribute in Light was conceived by several artists and designers who were then brought together under the auspices of the Municipal Art Society and Creative Time: John Bennett, Gustavo Boneverdi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian LaVerdiere, and Paul Myoda, with lighting consultant Paul Marantz.
Tribute in Light is produced by Michael Ahern Production Services.

Saturday & Sunday, September 18-19. Join us Saturday and Sunday for Hull Artists 25th year of Open Studios. From fine paintings and prints to jewelry, ceramics and fiber arts, there is something for everyone!
Be inspired by our incredibly talented community, and take a piece of inspiration home. The Hull Lifesaving Museum will be hosting four outstanding local artists:
Connie Crosby Martha Kempe Valerie Mine

The 2021 Fall Lighthouse Festival includes air, land-based, boat, and adventure tours that together reach all eleven of the treasured lighthouses of Door County, and three to our south! Many of the tour excursions are unique to the Lighthouse Festivals, and provide exclusive access to several lighthouses not typically open to the public, including Chambers Island, Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse, and the Plum Island Range Lights.

There are tours for all levels of activity and accessibility. Some tours involve hiking, while others ride in the comfort of the Door County Trolley. Boat tours depart from a variety of locations around the Peninsula, including Sister Bay, Fish Creek, Gills Rock and Baileys Harbor.​​​​​

Visit our website for tour details and additional information.

For questions, please email info@dcmm.org or call (920) 743-5958.

Tickets are now on sale! Several tour are already sold out! 

It’s not often we encounter “Free Admission” in our lives…but Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day is back this year, and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is proud to announce it is part of this special event! 

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket on Saturday, September 18, 2021—and this year SBMM is one of those museums. SBMM will be open to Smithsonian ticket holders and all others that day from 10am-3pm. To get free admission, guests must present an official Museum Day ticket that will provide free general admission for each ticket holder plus one guest (Since SBMM is free for children under 6, the museum will not count those children as a separate guest).Tickets are only valid on Museum Day, September 18, 2021. Tickets are now available to download. To register for tickets, visitors should go to the Smithsonian website, search for their favorite participating museum, and register at https://smithsonianmag.com/museumday/search/?q=. 

I hope you will help us promote Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day and encourage members of the community to take advantage of this special offer…and that you will bring your families as well! And remember, our unique Surfing Heritage exhibit is still on display through October 30!

On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 7pm, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will present “Water Solutions: The Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant,” a free Zoom webinar with Malcolm Hamilton and Gaylen Fair of Santa Barbara’s Water and Wastewater utilities. The presentation is free, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Marie L. Morrisroe, but registration is required at https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events/

The Charles E. Meyer desalination plant produces 3 million gallons of drinking water on a daily basis, which accounts for about 30% of Santa Barbara’s use.  The speakers will discuss the City of Santa Barbara’s water supply and a history of the plant from initial construction through to the recent reactivation of the plant. They will also examine the current operation of the plant, including the reverse osmosis treatment process, facility layout, total cost of operation, and a tad bit of chemistry. Finally, the presentation will wrap up with a conversation about upcoming construction projects, a recent Water Supply Agreement with Montecito Water District, and the role of desalination in the City’s water supply portfolio.