Backcountry Art Trips are instructional outdoor art workshops led by Maine artist Michael Branca. Designed to bring out the artist in the nature-lover and the nature-lover in the artist, they are open to people of all ability levels. Enrich your experience of beautiful wild places by spending full days exploring trails and making art en plein air.

Custom day trips and multi-day trips are available. Please contact Mike to schedule your trip today.

"It has come to this--that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. It is monstrous when one cares but little about trees but much about Corinthian columns."
--Henry David Thoreau, Journal Entry, October 9, 1857