Art Gone Wild: Peter Walls & Allegra Kuhn

In collaboration with Waterfall Arts, Art Gone Wild hosts artists at Stover and Head of Tide Preserves for installations of their work free to the community. Our last micro-residency for the year features artists Peter Walls & Allegra Kuhn, who will festoon the trails of Stover Preserve!

The tree, once aesthetically enhanced, becomes something other than a“tree” and into something to reflect upon, honor, and revere. 

Through the act of seeing, experiencing, and searching out inspiration in the flora and fauna of Stover and Head of The Tide Preserves we will create 12 pendants to adorn some of the oldest trees, the Hemlock and Cedars along the river’s edge of Stover Preserve that have watched over the property and the river itself the longest of any trees on this parcel, for the past 80 to 100 years-  The Witness Trees as some would call them.  On this riverside “catwalk” , donning their jewelry, twelve 2.5’ x 4’ pendants inspired by the preserve itself, we will create a living gallery for visitors to experience.

Peter Walls and Allegra Kuhn are Artists living and working in MidCoast Maine. Peter is known for his shaped panel mural work throughout New England and Allegra for her colorful and joyous abstract paintings.  They both find inspiration in the Maine landscape, the creatures which inhabit it, and how humans interact with their surroundings here.