AUGUSTA — The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum is among several organizations in Maine to receive Enterprise Grants from the Maine Office of Tourism.
Of the more than $46,000…
Art
MAINE — An Alaskan artifact sitting in a building in Maine and awaiting the highest bid on Goodwill’s Northern New England eBay…
Washington’s mushroomologist
WASHINGTON — The Gibbs Library will feature the photographs of Washington’s mushroomologist, David Spahr, from Thursday, January 10, through Tuesday, March 5.
Spahr is a naturalist,…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Windjammer Association announced winners in the 2018 Annual Photo Contest Dec. 26. Each year, windjammer passengers and…
JEFFERSON — Applications for the 2019 residencies at Maine Farmland Trust’s (MFT) Joseph A. Fiore Art Center opened in early December and will close March 1. This summer the Center will offer six…
In memory of Kolby Adams
HOPE— Emulating an Asian cultural practice of lighting up paper lanterns around the winter solstice, Sweet Tree Arts…
ROCKPORT — Three photographers are holding a joint two-week exhibition at the former CMCA building, 162 Russell Ave., in Rockport.
Works of Paul Caponigro, Dirk McDonnell, Ni Rong will be…
‘Eat them, don’t save them’
ROCKPORT — There is a saying that goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There’s also a saying that goes, a child’s imagination knows no boundaries. Both held true on Wednesday, December 12,…
Amy Wilton, the artist in residence at the Art Loft, on Main Street in Rockland, during the month of December, will be hosting a gallery show of her body of work titled The Red Thread. The show…
The mythological creations of artist-author Chris Ann Derby
WALDOBORO — Mention the word brownie and people think you’re either referring to a junior division of the Girl Scouts or that baked, delicious treat. But actually, brownies are mythological…
BELFAST — An exhibit titled “Amaryllis,” by Lee Silverton, will be on display in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library through December.
“I bought my first flowering amaryllis in…
Opening reception to public Friday Dec. 7 at 5 p.m.
BELFAST— Each year, Waterfall Arts invites Maine artists to submit handmade art and high-quality goods to be part of their juried “Handmade” show. The gallery is transformed into…
ROCKLAND — Arts in Action workshops are off to a great start at RSU 13 schools with many returning youth artists and a lot of enthusiasm for this year’s projects and partnerships, according to a…
Pecha Kucha presenter
Behind the Slides, our ongoing feature, is where we meet with an artist who presented at a recent PechaKucha event and find out the deeper story beneath the images he or she chooses to portray.…
HOPE — Retired Hope welder, Wayne Twitchell is showing his unique scrap metal sculptures at the Hope Library through the end of the year.
Twitchell uses shovels, chains, nuts, bolts and…
Attention photographers of Maine! Acceptance of entries for the 2019 Maine Photography Show (MPS) begins Saturday, Dec. 1 through the stroke of midnight Jan. 18, 2019. MPS has been the annual…
Rockland — Art Space Gallery artists express the beauty of Maine winter in new work to be shown through the month of December during our regular winter hours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Friday and…
40+ vendors packed the Rockland Elks Lodge on November 24
ROCKLAND — Shopping at the Festival of Lights Craft Show, hosted by Pope Memorial Humane Society, was a win-win on Small Business Saturday, for both the artisans and crafters and the shelter…
BELFAST — Local Color Gallery in Belfast will be featuring a small works show November 16 through January 3.
All 15 of the Local Color artists will be represented with paintings, sculpture…
Waldo Arts and Cultural Plan is spearheaded by Belfast Creative Coaltion
SEARSPORT— Apple crisp, cider and enthusiasm for the creative economy was on the docket Monday night, November 12, for the Belfast Creative Coalition, which organized a public information…
BELFAST — Joseph Ascrizzi and his son, Max, will tell you that, along with Joseph’s brother, Tony, who passed away in 2014, the three family members never consciously set out to thematically echo…
BELFAST — The Belfast Free Library announces the winning entries in this autumn's Young Adult Photography Contest: Joseph Potter (16) and Zuber Yacoe (13).
These two photographers' works…
Multimedia artist Abigail Read collected, brought each piece from Matinicus Island
APPLETON— In most paintings of Maine islands, conspicuously absent is the debris and junk that regularly washes up onto its shorelines. A lot of it tends to be ghost gear— lobster traps that have…
CAMDEN—Skulls and skeletons still linger days after Halloween has passed. On November 1 and 2, the world celebrated Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday that honors…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery owner/operator, Susan Lewis Baines, is pleased to announce the return of artist Jill Valliere to The Kelpie.
Valliere began her formal studies at the…
ROCKLAND — In marking the occasion of the 2018 Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, CRAFT Gallery is extending its last show of the season ”Erasing the Line between Fine Art and…
No one could have been more surprised (or felt more awkward) than Mark Coates, president of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation board of directors, upon hearing his name follow the phrase “Best…
Promises one of the biggest events ever with Stephen King theme
PROSPECT— In the many years I’ve written about Leon Seymour, the eccentric, passionate executive director of Friends of Fort Knox, whose sole pleasure for the last 18 years was planning for and…
The annual ARTinME exhibition at Boothbay Region Art Foundation opens Saturday, Oct. 13 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
This year’s juror is Rockland-based artist Connie Hayes. She…
Historic Thomaston Research Group
THOMASTON — The Historic Thomaston Research Group is launching a Thomaston Pride…
Artists of all ages, abilities, even passersby welcome to participate
BELFAST — The sidewalks of Heritage Park, on the Belfast Waterfront, were once again turned into ground-level galleries as artists and inspired passersby took part…
Trash to Treasure talk, recycled materials workshops
ROCKLAND – Rockland artist Kim Bernard has installed BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag), composed of 300 colorful, reusable, nylon shopping bags in the Rockland Public Library. The sculptural installation…
BELFAST – The Belfast Free Library offers free afterschool programming for kids ages 8 - 14 on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week.
On Tuesdays Cartooning Club, led by artist James Quigley,…
CAMDEN—Though not on the official roster, Jack Churchill’s steampunk buggy was one of the more memorable additions to September’s Mini Maker Faire. A functional art piece on wheels, the buggy is…
CUSHING — The Georges River Land Trust (GRLT) is pleased to partner with MCH, Inc., based in Rockland, through the Langlais Art Loan Program. Several original paintings by Bernard Langlais, owned…
ROCKLAND – Arts in Action, Arts@Work, and TGS Art Club programs are now taking registrations for the 2018-19 school year.
Youth artists will work with Alexis Iammarino, Cynthia McGuirl, and…
CIFF’s AR & VR Storyforms installations allow you to travel the world
ROCKLAND — I started my afternoon in a Fallujah “Boneyard” of destroyed Iraqi vehicles, artillery pieces and armor. Ten minutes later, I was smack in the middle of New York City…
BELFAST — It was a whirlwind hour of socially charged puppetry at the United Farmers Market Sept. 11, as Bread and Puppet Theater moved their performance indoors to…
Rachel Zheng’s transparent filament exhibition #ffffff up until Sept. 15 at Steel House Projects
ROCKLAND—Depending on the light of day, if you pass through the upper gallery of Steel House Projects, your eyes may take in a completely empty room.
Look again. There is an art…
Janet Redfield installs 100 glass fish in Portland elementary school
Lincolnville artist Janet Redfield recently installed 100 fused stained glass fish in hallways and spaces of the new Amanda C. Rowe School Elementary School, on Orono Road, in Portland. Redfield…
ROCKLAND – Sharon Boody-Dean, Lincolnville, won Best of Show from a recent juried art show at the wildlife refuge visitor center in Rockland for her Curious Bear unique mixed media piece…
Camden Falls Gallery is featuring the art of Dewaard & McPhillips. Ken Dewaard and Jonathan McPhillips are equally accomplished in studio design work focusing on Coastal New England, as well…
At work
CUSHING — Standing outside a well-appointed woodworking shop housed in a picturesque Cushing barn, it's as easy to admire the scenery as well as the impeccable craftsmanship underway inside — and…
HOPE—Long abandoned shovels, rusted chains, nuts, bolts and other broken tools that no longer have use are Wayne Twitchell’s favorite things to find when he’s out moseying around at yard sales and…
Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Boothbay Region Art Foundation (BRAF), sponsor of the ninth annual ARTinME exhibit, has announced the judge for this year’s show will be Connie Hayes, noted painter from Rockland. Hayes is known…
Linoleum Block Printing Workshop
with Holly Berry
Sunday, September 16, 2018
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TENANTS HARBOR — The Jackson Memorial Library in Tenants Harbor is exhibiting the oil paintings of Kenneth Schweizer August 27 through September 28.
Schweizer is an artist who splits his…
In business (post retirement....)
BELFAST — A Pennsylvania couple made their debut at the 23rd annual…
ROCKLAND — They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice. However, for the dancers of Studio Red in Rockland, Maine, that is not always the case. On March 23, 2018, while attending…
BELFAST — It was picture perfect weather for both days of the 23rd annual Arts in the Park, which took place at Steamboat Landing July 7-8.
With hardly a cloud in the sky,…
