HALEY ART GALLERY: Blog

[Blue Eggs - Oil on Canvas - Susan Bailey]

Haley Art Gallery‘s September Art & Dine (Friday, Sept. 10, 6-9pm) event will feature Kevin Cambridge, owner of Terra Cotta Pasta Company and sampling of specialty foods that make Terra Cotta one of the most favorite spots for foodies across the seacoast. Since 1989, Terra Cotta has offered gourmet ravioli, sauces, flat breads, desserts and ready-made food and catering from its Kittery (ME) and Dover (NH) stores and most recently in South Portland, ME. 

[Reading Tourist News - Oil on Canvas - Ann Legg, ME]

Haley Art Gallery will be one of the four selected businesses promoting the vital role of the Seacoast Local during the July 22, (5-7PM) Business After Hours event at The Port Inn in Portsmouth, NH." 

The event will focus on "buy local" and is co-hosted with the Exeter and Portsmouth Chambers of Commerce, with Exeter Jaguar showcasing a collection of classic and antique Jaguars.  Local restaurants among them Café Nostimo, Warren’s Lobster House, Olde Stove Bake Shoppe, Roundabout Diner, and Smuttynose Brewery and Wine will be providing food and refreshments.

Business members of the Seacoast Local were invited to submit proposals of how they would engage visitors with their business and the local story.  Four proposals from member businesses, among them Haley Art Gallery, were selected to host a room during the July 22 event and visualize the spirit of buy local while promoting their business.

Haley Art Gallery will present "Canvassing the Buy Local Spirit --   How Local Artists and Artisans Enrich and Support Creative Local Economy" a travelogue of select artworks by the Gallery's artists that will take the visitors on a visual journey of the benefits of buying from and supporting local businesses.

The visual travelogue will take the visitors on a journey of what buy local really means, exploring -- through gallery artists' works --  how supporting the local arts empowers local economy allowing business owners to live, thrive, and prosper in their chosen communities.

The message is simple – "for the love of the seacoast, to preserve our way of life, our towns, our streets, our people, our environment -- for the love of preserving healthy local communities -- live local, buy local,"