ROCKPORT — The Camden Hills Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Student of the Month in March is senior Jan Low. Just as comfortable onstage as behind the scenes designing and…
Art
designing costumes, writing and directing plays, acting
suffered greatly during the Revolution; entirely abandoned for five years
BELFAST — “Becoming Belfast, Maine, 1770 -1820,” an exhibit created by the Belfast Historical Society & Museum, will be on display, March 2 through April 15, in the Kramer Gallery of the…
‘I found I could think up cartoon idea quickly and had a talent for it’
FRIENDSHIP — For one area man, putting pen to paper and touching on recent issues affecting Americans is just another day at the office.
Greg Kearney, of Friendship, has been drawing…
‘Flowers of Maine’
UNION — The Exhibition Hall at Union Fair, Maine Wild Blueberry Festival (August 22-29, 2020) is promoting a queen-sized quilt themed around “Flowers of Maine.” The proceeds of the quilt raffle…
developing their work while connecting with the community
NORTH HAVEN — Waterman’s Community Center has announce its selection for playwrights-in-residence. The three playwrights will each spend 10 days on the unbridged island of North Haven, focused on…
‘I want to make a difference in this world and art has the power to bring people together’
WALDOBORO — More than 250 students and staff members at Medomak Valley High School are learning to identify why they matter this semester as part of an advanced photography class project aimed at…
40 Years of ‘Work Avoidance’
UNION — Sue Fairer and Paul Gaudreau, of Union Pottery, will exhibit a large collection of pottery at Vose Library during the month of February, captioned, "40 Years of ‘Work Avoidance’ (or…
WARREN—University of New England college student William Cox, 19, has found a novel way to offset the cost of his college books and materials. He’s offering custom hand-drawn portraits to the…
Feb. 7-9 event marks its 30th year at Camden Snow Bowl
CAMDEN—For the last 29 years, costume-clad teams have waited with anticipation at the top of Camden Snow Bowl’s famed toboggan chute for the lever to be pulled and the…
ROCKPORT — Eight Maine woodworkers were honored with awards at the opening of “Maine Wood 2020” in Rockport this past Friday.
The…
MONTVILLE—Artist Felicia Cinquegrana lives in the deep woods of Montville, but she doesn’t even need to venture outside for inspiration. Trees are all around—her house, her studio, and in her art…
concurrent exhibit to feature photos, artwork related to Governor Anderson Elementary School
BELFAST — The public is invited to participate in Waterfall Arts’ annual Open Call exhibition, Milestones, this spring. Milestones will be on view from April 3 through May 8. Work for this non-…
deadline March 31
UNION — The Trustees of the Union Fair and Maine Wild Blueberry Festival are launching their annual contest to choose a design suitable for use in publicizing the 2020 Union Fair, August 22 - 29…
Celebrating illustrations of ‘A journey of Peace’
CAMDEN — The Camden Maine Lions Club held a dinner December 7 to celebrate the local winners of the annual Lions International Peace Poster contest. Among the attendees, was Teague Buchanan, who…
one- or two-dimensional artwork in any medium
BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Boothbay Region Art Foundation and the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce will be opening the 4th annual “What’s Nude in Boothbay Harbor Show” February 14 at the BRAF…
‘Mr. Bramhall is known throughout the world, as his work has gone far and wide’
My New Years resolution is to write something every week about Camden and to not leave it half finished in a drafts folder in Google docs.
Almost pathologically, I am always researching…
Camden Public Library
CAMDEN — It’s a new decade; kick it off by expanding your repertoire of talents!
At the start of every year, the Camden Public Library hosts a series of Jumpstart January workshops to…
‘capturing fleeting moments with our feathered neighbors’
WASHINGTON — The Gibbs Library, in Washington Village, will exhibit Maine bird photographs by Patti Forster, a local birder and photographer, from Thursday, January 9 through Tuesday, March 3.…
ROCKLAND — In 2001, artist Steve Lindsay received a contract from The First to carve an image of Rockland history. Lindsay worked from a historic photograph. And, who better to garner that photo…
ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland is announcing an open call for submissions to its 2020 Biennial exhibition. Submissions will be accepted online through the CMCA…
ROCKLAND — Millay House Rockland has started a GoFundMe campaign to finish the renovations of the double house, at 198-200 Broadway, where Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was…
where is the original 5th order Fresnel lens?
PORT CLYDE — Marshall Point Lighthouse and Museum has announced the return of its 1970s Fresnel barrel lens from the Coast Guard. It had been on display at the Rockland Lighthouse Museum.
…
LINCOLN, Massachusetts — A large scale photographic work by Belfast artist Mj Viano Crowe is among selected works by photographers and photographic artists of the 20th century now on display at…
Artist Olivia Vanner creates discussion and distraction with her fiber art installations
ROCKLAND—In a former classroom now converted to a studio at Lincoln Street Center, one curious creature, approximately four foot high, dominates one side of the room. It resembles a deer made with…
MAINE — Paintings by Kathryn Oliver will be on display at three Maine locations from December 1 - January 6.
The Sacred Garden is a collection of large paintings…
New ‘Live/Work’ ordinance allows artists to spend up to six months living at the Center
ROCKLAND— Lincoln Street Center, which was at one point the Rockland High School, is brimming with new energy and talent. On Friday, November 22, a number of artists currently renting studios and…
'Capturing the creative spirit we encourage in our children’
ROCKPORT — Georges River Land Trust (GRLT) has partnered with The Riley School in Rockport, through the Langlais Art Loan Program. Several original paintings by Bernard Langlais, owned by the…
a nuanced visual record of contemporary American life
ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) has been awarded a lead project grant of $7,500 from the Maine Bicentennial Commission. The grant will support the presentation of the…
money prize to an individual and a business
WALDOBORO — The contest is back! The Town of Waldoboro Recreation Department is managing the contest this year and the Waldoboro Business Association continues to offer $200 prizes, one each to…
Artist is hosting an Open House on Nov. 23 and 24 in Lincolnville
LINCOLNVILLE—Even though it was a drizzly, gloomy day when I visited Janet Redfield’s house and studio on a rural road in Lincolnville, her stained glass doors on both the front and back of the…
The beauty of the trees and rock formations on the coast of Maine
WASHINGTON VILLAGE — The Gibbs Library is exhibiting the pastel paintings of artist and tile maker Barbara Vanderbilt, of Whitefield, from Tuesday, November 5, through Tuesday, January 7.
…
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors’ Studio has announced the cast of Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, which explores the need for connection in the technology-obsessed world.
The cast…
[ON]Now submissions accepted until November 15
ROCKLAND—In a move to give Maine artists more visibility and accessibility, Center for Maine Contemporary Art will unveil its first virtual exhibition in early December.
“This is a new…
John Steele Photography
The morning of March 16,1968 was an infamous one for United States international diplomacy and wartime conduct.
The TET Offensive was still in full…
ROCKLAND — If you’ve been to the Sail Power and Steam Museum on Mechanic Street in Rockland (on the site of the former Snow Shipyard), you’ll know that it is a place where you can lose yourself as…
Selected from a collection of dozens of custom-designed scarecrows spread around the City, the…
ROCKLAND — Art Space Gallery will be hanging an array of new work by its members for the show, “Home and Family,” open in November and December.
Art Space Gallery is located at 405 Main…
‘We hope to have an ongoing presence in the community’
CAMDEN — A new art society has launched in Knox County and is rapidly growing as an organization. Founded in March, the Knox County Art Society has grown to 40 members and is preparing for its…
deadline Oct. 4
BELFAST — Waterfall Arts is looking for a variety of unique artwork and gifts handcrafted with a professional aesthetic for the 2019 Handmade Show, a curated collection of high-quality handmade…
In business
CAMDEN—The little garage sitting next to The Smoothie Shack at 46 Elm Street became available recently when friends and business partners Ariela Kuh and Molly O’Rourke each saw her own vision of…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Lobster Festival is looking for an artist to create the 2020 festival poster. Every year, thousands of these posters are hung all over Maine and beyond to promote the Festival…
NEW HARBOR — Two member artists at the Pemaquid Art Gallery discovered painting through drawing. Liliana Thelander, of Bristol, began her art career with stained glass, but studied drawing to…
As darkness falls, mysterious things go bump in the night and family tensions rise
BELFAST — Humor and hurt are dished out in equal measure at Thanksgiving Dinner in the one-act play, The Humans, by Stephen Karam.
Performances are October 25 - November 3, at 8 p.…
‘A drinking town with a fishing problem’
BELFAST—Penobscot Falls is not a real town in Maine, but it is very much a real place in the latest 3-D artwork of artist Eric Green. It’s a train set town set in 1/48th scale surrounded by…
“Every dollar we dedicate to making our arts scene more vibrant results in more cultural tourism for Maine.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program will award three projects in Maine’s First Congressional District with a combined $704,458…
AUGUSTA — The Holocaust and Human Right’s Center of Maine and the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence are hosting…
SEARSPORT — Crafts, socializing, tech time, and a garden party allow for September involvement at Carver Memorial Library, in Searsport.
Crafternoon – Thursday, Sept 19, 3:30 p.m. Join the…
ROCKLAND—Photographer Jim Dugan, surprisingly, is not a “morning person.”
You wouldn’t know it from his almost surreal sunrise photos of the Penobscot Bay which pop with blues, purples,…
reflecting what the photographer sees, reflecting what the camera sees
BELFAST — “Water-Reflection,” an exhibit of photographs by Patrick Walsh, will be on display for the month of September in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library.
Walsh, a Belfast…
