Jesse Salisbury, Art Director
Jesse is a large-scale granite and basalt sculptor living in Steuben, Maine. He has participated in juried Sculpture Symposiums in Japan and New Zealand, and he initiated and helped organize a 2004 International Sculpture Symposium at the Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta, Maine.
Jesse was born in Steuben, where he began to study sculpture in the 7th grade from a sculptor and friend of his parents who lived near the grammar school. Jesse and his parents eventually moved to Toyko, Japan. He attended high school in Japan and became fluent in Japanese. The year after his high school graduation, Jesse stayed in Japan and studied Bizen wood-fired pottery. He graduated from Colby College, Maine, in 1991, with a major in East Asian Studies and a double minor in Chinese and Art. In 1998, Jesse was accepted as an apprentice with a Sculpture Symposium in Yonago City, Japan. Translating the symposium catalog into English was one of his task.
Mary Laury
Mary is the Executive Director of Schoodic Arts for All (SAFA), a local non-profit arts organization. Mary has brought its annual August Arts Festival to 17,000 people since its inception in 1999. Under her direction, SAFA operates a year-round arts program centered at Winter Harbor’s Hammond Hall. In 2006, SAFA organized 15 art shows, 90 performances and 65 workshops. Among these are the Hammond Hall Concert Series, a film series with panel discussions, the Schoodic Summer Chorus, a Show Choir, Pandemonium: Schoodic Steel Pan Band, the Schoodic Arts Theater Lab and the Last Friday Coffee House.
Dan Farrenkopf
Dan is a partner at Lunaform, business in Sullivan, Maine, which creates large-scale urns and planters for gardens and interiors.
Dan is a 1993 graduate of College of the Atlantic, an active promoter of the arts in the two-county area, and a member of the Hancock County Committee for the Maine Community Foundation.
Peter Weil
Peter is a retired wood, stone and metal sculptor, and a Selectman in the town of Steuben. Peter is an advocate for the arts, is interested in furthering the display of public art in rural Maine, and in providing his services to bring a Sculpture Symposium to our rural area. He was a first teacher and mentor for Jesse Salisbury.
Jane Weil
Jane is a retired director of a non-profit organization in Machias. She has a strong interest in community development, creative opportunities for children and their families, and in the concept of public art. She has helped to engage the interest of towns that might request public art in the future and proposal preparation.
Karin Wilkes
Karin owns KMW Design, a marketing and graphic design firm located in Ellsworth, Maine.
Karin brings a wide range of graphic design, digital imaging, website development and other organizational and communication skills to the project. She is active with the arts and has worked with numerous non-profits in eastern Maine. Karin and her husband also own the Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, which is located in the historic courthouse (built in 1838) in Ellsworth.
