Josie Colt & Sam Colt – Shadowings ~ Artist in Residence Show

Step into the work of artists Josie Colt and Sam Colt. Using the setting of the Carpenter’s Boat Shop as inspiration, this mother daughter duo spent a week at the Carpenter’s Boat Shop following the shadows and collaborating in their differing mediums of puppetry and painting. An immersive installation of darkness and light, paintings, and surprises awaits.

Free Even, All ages

Snacks & Drinks Provided

In the Chapel at The Carpenter’s Boat Shop

Sam Colt:

Sam Colt is a Vermont based artist working with grassello al fresco. She layers and carves until something catches and opens into its own logic—toward the genius loci of boats, barns, ruins, mountains. Sam begins with a loose idea, but the real work is following what shows up through gesture, accident, and a kind of overactive seeing. Forms surface, half-found, half-made, and she traces them, repeats them, and begs them out of hiding. 

Josie Colt: 

Josie Colt is a multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, Maine. Using the analog method of shadow puppetry, Josie works with an overhead projector creating dream-like sequences. With a background in animation and illustration, she merges her mediums to explore the unconscious mind, spirits, and the human form. Josie also draws live portraits under Portraits As You Pass and facilitates figure drawing with Portland Drawing Group, offering low barrier creative experiences to the public. It is Josie’s hope that their work may inspire something in the imagination, and lend comfort in the shared magical weirdness of being alive.