Join artist and author Blue Butterfield as she discusses the inspiration and evolution of her new illustrated memoir, Maine, A Love Story. She will describe the process of creating reduction woodblock prints and finding her own story in essays to accompany them.

Blue Butterfield is a woodblock printmaker who grew up in Bar Harbor, and found her footing on the trails of Acadia. She has works in permanent collections around New England, including Maine Medical Center, Maine General, and the New England Cancer Center. She illustrated Coloring Maine and Robert Tristam Coffin’s Christmas in Maine, published by Islandport Press. She issues a yearly calendar of woodcuts, A Year in Maine, currently in its 18th year of publication. Her illustrated memoir, Maine, A Love Story was published in 2023 and was a Maine Literature Award Finalist and IndieReader Discovery Award Winner.

She also works as a physician assistant in Hospital Medicine at Maine Medical Center. In her free time, she mountain bikes with her husband, Kevin, and their dog Hopper in their second favorite state (Vermont), perfects her tofu tikka masala recipe and makes fangirl t-shirts for her favorite fantasy authors.

Learn more at: bluebutterfield.com