Welcome to the online Arts Guide 2025…

Providing visitors to mid-coast and Downeast Maine with web and print coverage of visual and performing arts, dining, events, and so much more for TWENTY-SIX years…

Arts Guide continues
to bring you the best…

We are happy to continue providing our advertisers and visitors alike with one of the best guides to the Arts – in continuous publication for twenty-six years.
  From early June through Indigenous People’s Day, the print version of Arts Guide is distributed free in hundreds of locations from Deer Isle and Stonington throughout the Blue Hill Peninsula, Castine, and Ellsworth.
     Over the years, many visitors have told us they take their copy of Arts Guide home to keep as a reminder of their trip and as a reference for their next trip.

Click here to View & Download the 2025 Arts Guide! 

Want to advertise?

On the Advertise page, you’ll find advertising rates for both the print and online Arts Guides, as well as a link to download a PDF of the rate sheet. Although there is a specific deadline for advertising in the annual print Arts Guide, you can place an ad on the website at any time.
     Our readers – and our advertisers – are important to us. Please let us know what you think!

Celebrating 26 years of Arts Guides

Early June in Maine is one of my favorite times of year. As someone said recently, “we are at peak green” and summer hasn’t even started yet! The days are lengthening towards the summer solstice, bird song abounds, and spring flowers are blooming everywhere. 
Every May for the past 26 years I have rounded up the straggler/advertisers, designed ads and pages, and put the finishing touches on the digital file to send to the printer. 
When I began this adventure, I never expected it to still be going strong over a quarter century later – but here it is. 
I owe Arts Guide’s longevity to you – our loyal readers and advertisers. All of you have found value in the hundreds of pages I’ve produced over the last two and a half decades. 
During that time, I have had the privilege to interview countless artists and gallerists, write their stories, and share them with our readers.

Click here to read our feature article on
Missy Greene and Eric Ziner as they celebrate
30 years of art and farming on Deer Isle

Whether this is your first visit to the area, or your umpteenth, Arts Guide is here to give you insights on things to do and see, places to go, dining, and so much more. 
What began as a little 16-page guide with limited color, has evolved into the full-color 36-page book you hold in your hands. Over the years, the page count has fluctuated, but the important core information has always been within those pages. 
Thank you to all of you for your support, and feedback on Arts Guide over the years, and  for your love and appreciation of all the artists and crafts people in this special place on the planet.

Here’s to many more years together . . .