Painting Bridges: Uniting Community with Art In July 2012, Howie Motenko conceived of a community art project utilizing the photographic technique of light painting on the historic stone bridges of Acadia National Park. His idea was to assemble a team of volunteers who, wielding flashlights, would “paint” a bridge with light while he created a long-exposure photograph. For the next nine months, a growing cohort of co-artists journeyed at twilight to each bridge on Acadia’s carriage roads. By spring of 2013, stunning photographs of all 16 historic Rockefeller bridges and both gatehouses had been completed with the help of 150 volunteers. This website contains: an image gallery and a project blog.

Aluminum prints available, visit our online gallery.

Check out more of Howie’s work: Acadia Moon Dance and Painting Islands. Howie leads photography tours and workshops through his business, Acadia Photo Safari.