Name: 2025 WABANAKI WINTER MARKET
Start: 2025-12-13T09:00:00-05:00
Location: 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME, United States, Maine 04469

The Wabanaki Winter Market is New England’s largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists. This annual event features artists who have received national awards, as well as new artists representing the next generation of weavers.
The event provides the public with an opportunity to purchase Wabanaki art directly from the artists and to learn about these ancient traditions.
Join the Hudson Museum for a day that will showcase one-of-a-kind art forms (basketry, beadwork, wood carving, birchbark items), and maple syrup as well as demonstrations, storytelling, traditional music, drumming and dancing. Something for everyone!
This year’s Friends of the Hudson Museum raffle basket was made by Dolly Barnes, Passamaquoddy. Tickets will be available for purchase at the market.
The Hudson Museum will be open during the event, and visitors are encouraged to explore the Wabanaki Gallery where they can view the work of the ancestors of the contemporary artists.
The Wabanaki Winter Market is FREE and open to the public.
2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 Doors Open to the Public
9:30-10:00 Welcome
10:00-10:30 Traditional Penobscot Songs with Kelly Demmons, Penobscot (First Floor)
10:30-11:00 Brown Ash Pounding Demonstration by Eldon Hanning, Mi’kmaq (First Floor)
11:00-11:30 Children’s Doll Workshop with Wendy Little Bear, Penobscot (Hudson Museum)
11:00-Noon Book signing with Jeremy Frey 2025 McArthur Genius Award Winner (First Floor). Bring your copy of Jeremy Frey: Woven or purchase one at the show.
11:30-Noon Flute Music with Hawk Henries, Nipmuc (First Floor)
Noon-12:30 Storytelling for Children with Jennifer Pictou, Mi’kmaq (Hudson Museum)
1:00-1:30 Basket demonstration by Dolly Barnes, Passamaquoddy (First Floor)
1:00-2:00 Children’s Necklace Workshop with JoEllen Loring Jamieson (Hudson Museum)
1:30-2:00 Birchbark Etching with Gabriel Frey, Passamaquoddy (First Floor)
2:00-3:00 Burnurwurbskek Singers (Third Floor)
The Wabanaki Winter Market is hosted by the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine in Orono and is supported in part by Four Directions Development Corporation.
For more information, please visit: https://www.wabanakiwintermarket.org
Visitors from far away can request reasonable accommodation by contacting the Hudson Museum Director, Gretchen Faulkner, via e-mail: [email protected].