ROCKLAND — Downtown Rockland has no shortage of galleries, but what about fostering more budding artists? Founded by Kathryn Matlack of Camden and Paula Apro of Rockland, two former Maine Media…

Behind the Slides, our ongoing feature, is where we meet up with an artist who presented at a PechaKucha event and find out the deeper story beneath the images they chose to portray.

Noah…

SEARSPORT — Penobscot Marine Museum opens for the season Saturday, May 28, and is inaugurating a new program to offer residents of each…

DAMARISCOTTA — First National Bank is proud to announce that the bank's ninth annual Customer Photography Contest is now underway for the…

My day became more than complete when Peter Wolf called to discuss his latest venture on disc called “A Cure for Loneliness”  (released by Concord Records: April 8),appropriately named as…

ROCKPORT — Have you ever dreamed of securing funding for a project you have in mind or being awarded an artist-in-residency for your own…

BELFAST — Whether it’s a carefully framed photograph professionally taken in the late 19th century or a casual selfie snapped by an amateur, there are clues inside each family’s box of snapshots…

BELFAST —On the hallway gallery wall of Waterfall Arts in Belfast, where student work hung a month ago, one striking photograph stood out. An older man stares, his gaze transfixed. Tayler…

WALDOBORO — Fifteen of the area's fine artists and craftsmen are coming to Tidemark Gallery next week to help launch Waldoboro's 2016…

BELFAST — Two Book Arts workshops will be held at Waterfall Arts as part of the Belfast Bound Book Festival on May 7. For adults, Abbie…

ROCKLAND — The Art Loft, the newest nonprofit community art center will offer the following classes starting May 2.

The Art…

ROCKLAND — It’s not often a night of entertainment around the Midcoast is limited to only one of your five senses, but that’s what four audio artists are doing on Saturday evening, April 23, at…

BELFAST — Belfast Creative Coalition earlier this year received a grant of $3,500 from the Arts Expansion Fund of the Maine Community…

ROCKLAND — Summer is right around the corner, and registration is now open for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's ArtLab ArtCamp for…

ROCKLAND—Artist Annie Bailey was one of the artists featured in The Farnsworth Art Museum’s [Collective] annual BASH on April 1. The sold-out event revolved around a circus theme and her…

BELFAST — The woman in the painting is looking over her shoulder with an alarmed expression. Julia Alexander, 15, the artist, had a specific person in mind when she painted this.

“That’s…

WARREN — More than 35 pottery studios across the state will be open for the Maine Pottery Tour on April 30 and May 1 including six nearby…

SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery has begun accepting artist submissions for 'Wet Paint on the Weskeag', the third annual juried wet…

BELFAST — The evolution of the photographic snapshot: 1888-2015 will be on display in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library for…

ROCKLAND — Children ages eight and up are invited to learn how to make a camera out of everyday materials and develop their own pictures in…

OWLS HEAD — Sometimes Eliot Scott turns up the Grateful Dead as he patiently glues barely-visible fibers and microscopic parts to models of military vessels. Other times, he listens to the sounds…

ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its 2016 exhibition schedule at the art center's new campus at 21…

ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites students in grades third-twelfth to submit an original poster design for Aldermere Farm's…

BELFAST — In recent years, the Midcoast has seen a number of events and conferences dedicated to uplifting those in the arts and creative economy and on April 1, Archipelago, retail side of the…

HOPE — Hope Library is delighted to announce that during April, local artist Jamie Wiggin will display her paintings at the Library. Jamie…

UNION — The name started as a joke, something Gary Harriman’s friend and business partner, Kevin Davis, came up with. “As we assembled different pieces of wood together to make something new,…

BELFAST — Work for the Keen Observation open call show at Waterfall Arts must be submitted Tuesday, March 29 through Friday, April 1 from…

ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art will continue to accept online submissions for the 2016 CMCA Biennial Exhibition until…

WALDOBORO — Medomak Arts is pleased to announce the start of new programs at The Space @ No. 9. Located at 9 Friendship Street, The Space…

ROCKLAND — Asymmetrick Arts and Black Hole are pleased to confirm Lorraine DeLaney (Colby Musuem…

TENANTS HARBOR — The Jackson Memorial Library will feature the works of Spruce Head artist Laurie Webber from April 4 through May 31. The…

SEARSPORT — A bottle filled with colored seabird guano (droppings) from Penobscot Marine Museum's collection is currently on display in the…

ROCKLAND — This Friday, March 18, radio station WRFR, 93.3 FM, and Rockland's Old School will host Suzette McAvoy of the Center for Maine…

WALDOBORO – What do you get when you put meat pies, oil paintings, and over 60 caring citizens into a single space? One very successful…

SEARSPORT — In cooperation with the Penobscot Marine Museum's 2016 Postcard Project, The Maine Office of Tourism will showcase eight…

Joe Norton has been building walls for around 12 years. They're not the kind of walls that keep people out. In fact they do just the opposite. Their artful beauty draws people in. 

BELFAST — Spring art classes and workshops at Waterfall Arts are on the schedule for March and April. Offerings include Malt and Monotype,…

BELFAST—Belfast artist Joanne Parent is known for her airy sunset and seascape oil painting, but a trip last year to the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast may have her conjuring darker landscapes…

Chances are if you were playing a game of Family Feud and the question was: “What do you expect to see on the walls of the waiting room at a car dealership?” the winning answer might be “car…

BELFAST — The Belfast Co-op and Belfast Free Library will show a new photo exhibit, Feeding Maine: Growing Access to Good Food, the entire…

ROCKLAND — April is National Poetry Month, and libraries, area bookstores and other venues are offering special exhibitions and events in…

LIBERTY - Liberty Graphics, an environmentally conscious T-shirt printer, is accepting submissions for its 19th annual $1,000 art…

BELFAST—There’s a lot going on underneath the surface of Belfast artist Isaac Wright. He is both edgy and shy, and not used to talking about himself. As we sit together in the corner of Traci’s…

BELFAST – Four students from BCOPE will be participating in Waterfall's latest art show, Young Artists' Gallery Takeover. The show will be…

ROCKLAND — The Center for Maine Contemporary Art announced today that it will open its new building, designed by internationally acclaimed…

THOMASTON — The art of decorating wood with burn marks, also known as pyrography, is something 22-year-old Zach Spofford has been playing around with since he was 14.

SO. THOMASTON — The second Tea and Talk at the Kelpie Gallery on Sunday, February 28 at 2 p.m. will feature The Meaning of Flowers in Art.…

It's time to prepare for the 14th Annual Festival of Art for Senior College at Belfast. All Maine artists, aged 50 and over, amateur or professional, can submit artwork for the show running June 9…

Through the years, starting when she was 6, Rita Swidrowski would capture on the pages of her sketchbook what to some might seem like banal moments - like the color of someone’s backpack. But for…

BELFAST — …