Bar Harbor, ME
The gateway to Acadia National Park is also a quiet mural destination, where seasonal artists and year-round locals have turned Bar Harbor's downtown storefronts and the rocky Shore Path corridor into small-scale outdoor galleries. Tide pools, granite peaks, and the Wabanaki heritage of Mount Desert Island all appear on walls that celebrate the singular beauty of Maine's most-visited coastline.
Featured Artists
All artists →Sienna Whitmore
Bar Harbor resident whose plein-air painting practice directly informs her mural work. Whitmore's Cottage Street piece translates a beloved tide pool she has painted from life dozens of times into a building-scale composition — the sea stars, barnacles, and kelp rendered with the observational precision of a field naturalist.
Dana Sockabasin
Passamaquoddy artist and cultural educator whose Shore Path mural centers Wabanaki presence on Mount Desert Island — land the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet peoples have called home for ten thousand years. Sockabasin's work integrates traditional beadwork geometry with contemporary figuration in a piece that reframes Bar Harbor's history for visitors and year-round residents alike.
Petra Lindqvist
Swedish painter who returns to Bar Harbor each summer to paint en plein air and accept mural commissions. Her work channels the Nordic light tradition — long shadows, cool granite, water in every weather — adapted to the particular drama of the Maine coast at first light from Cadillac Mountain.