SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery in South Thomaston held its grand opening Saturday, July 19…
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Eclectic, mystic, inspiring music, poetry and dance
CAMDEM: On Wednesday, Aug 27, and Thursday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m., Leap Dance Theater will present, “Sky Hunter,” an inspiring performance featuring the poetry of the great Sufi mystic Rumi. The…
Farnsworth Museum
ROCKLAND — Tuesday, Sept. 2, through Thursday, Sept. 4, the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a three-day beginner workshop on rug hooking. The program, led by Gabrielle Wicklow will take place at…
SPRUCE HEAD — Third Annual Workshop Gallery Exhibition will be open Saturday, Aug. 16 through Saturday…
Aritst in Residence
SEARSPORT — The week of August 10-16 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground, Camp and Create will host Mihoko Wakabayashi as Artist in Residence teaching SAORI Weaving and Traditional Japanese Arts…
SPRUCE HEAD — The third annual Workshop Gallery Art Exhibition will be open for visitors, August 16 through August 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Featuring artists include:
Christine Henehan…
LINCOLNVILLE — Stop by Lincolnville Fine Art Gallery in Lincolnville Beach this summer and view art by Downeast Maine resident Richard Kapral.
Kapral has been painting since the early…
PORT CLYDE — The ‘Barbara Ernst Prey: American Contemporary’ exhibit showcases the virtuosic hand of internationally acclaimed artist Barbara Ernst Prey who has painted powerful views of her…
BROCTON — Rockland’s Warren Seelig’s is considered a game changer by Fuller Craft Museum of Brocton, Massachusetts, for his artwork using fibers. Seelig’s work is being showcased in an exhibit…
SEARSPORT — The week of August 3-9 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground Camp and Create will be making chainmail, learning macramae and doing a bit of cartooning with “Santa” Steve Schreurs.
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This annual event unveils new highlights from the artist John Paul Caponigro's recent international travels north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. There were also stops…
Belfast - Midcoast Actors' Studio presents Nunsense, the hilarious musical spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a talent show, August 1-10 at the Unitarian…
BELFAST — Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County is holding an Award Ceremony and Reception for its Juried Art Show Saturday, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., at the Belfast Free Library.
At the event, there…
SEARSPORT — The focus for week July 27 – Aug 2 at Searsport Shores Ocean Campground Camp and Create will be creating Colorful Memories with Artist in Residence is Maryly Matthewman.
Maryly…
The Belfast Arts Final Fridays Art Walk this month will take place on July 25. Explore the downtown galleries as well as the studios surrounding the downtown area. Every Final Fridays Art Walk is…
CAMDEN — Massive inflatable balloons and two birthday cakes marked the beginning of the Camden Opera House’s 120th anniversary celebration that will continue through the rest of the…
THOMASTON -- The program, organized around weekly themes, features daily activities and events, a story or two, and some fun in the sun, including a picnic lunch outside, weather permitting. Each…
SEARSPORT — Gee’s Bend quilters China Pettway, Stella Mae Pettaway, Revil Mosley and Lucy Mingo Quilts, whose non-traditional quilts have been called by the New York Times “some of the…
SEARSPORT — Meet Maine artist Eric Hopkins, and see Eric Hopkins: Shells - Fish - Shellfish, a major retrospective of his work, on Friday, July 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in…
Caption: Online auction of one-of-a-kind buoy art created by 50 artists with ties to Maine.
ROCKLAND –- To celebrate Trekkers historic milestone of 20 years of Building Up…
THOMASTON — Week Five of 40 Days of Summer’at Thomaston Public Library: Craft Week!
Crafts are the theme for Week Five of Thomaston Public Library's 40 Days of Summer …
Clementine offers modern fabrics, notions and creative goods
ROCKLAND—If being dragged into fabric shops by your mother as she searched for 1970s patterns was your childhood experience, Clementine is going to turn that frown upside down.
Leah Ondra,…
OWLS HEAD — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced the winners of the 2014 Lyme Disease Awareness Month contest.
During May, Maine CDC held its fifth annual…
SEARSPORT –- The week of July 13-19 Searsport Shores Ocean Campground Camp and Create program will offer workshops with Artists-in-Residence Annette Fortier and Joyce Hayden.
Joyce Hayden is…
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — Summer Stonington resident Jill Hoy’s artwork is on display at Lincolnville Fine Art Gallery. Hoy considers the quality of light to be an important element of her work. "…
SEARSPORT —Camp and Create! Artist in Residence Angelika Paul will bed serving up Recipes for Disaster July 6 through July 12 at the Searsport Shores Ocean Campground.…
CAMDEN — Mac Economy’s art work is vibrant and bold and brings a new look to the walls of Camden National Bank. His paintings can usually be found adorning K2 Music, but on the walls of Camden…
Artist at work
Camden artist/illustrator Jonathan Carlson spent most of Monday, June 16, before an easel on Limerock Street in Camden. His focus: A modest old…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery, a new art gallery opening on July 1, is located at 81 Elm Street in the heart of the ‘Keag village in South Thomaston. Owned and operated by painting…
CAMDEN — The Camden Opera House celebrates its 120th anniversary this year with a summer and fall list of events brimming with concerts and shows.
Opera House manager Kerry Hadley said the…
Blue Water Fine Arts is pleased to present Barbara Ernst Prey: The Print Show featuring a series of 20 newly released prints from July 3 to July 20.
New print releases of Hydrangeas (…
Talk at Camden Public Library
CAMDEN — Michael Weymouth and Elizabeth Garber have teamed up to produce a new book about Penobscot Bay, Maine (Island Time). Weymouth painted the watercolors for the book and Garber’s…
Maine Artists
The Colby College Museum of Art will present “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” an exhibition that brings together nearly 50 drawings, watercolors and prints, spanning four decades, given by the…
BELFAST — Community and artists came together to enjoy a night of art in Belfast Friday, May 30, for the first monthly Art Walk of the season. Approximately 20…
The Damariscotta Pumpkinfest & Regatta invites Maine artists to submit a design for this year’s official festival T-shirt. The selected design will be featured on the back of the T-shirt…
Multi-media artist Victoria Statsenko of Portland and Falmouth painter Janter Weele have been named the 2014 Monhegan Island artists-in-residence by the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation.…
Artists and fine craftspersons are encouraged to submit work for the Maine Coast Artist Gallery's first show of the 2014 season.
This is an invitational show and interested artists should…
First Friday Art Walk of the season, May 2
ROCKLAND — The air was just about perfect Friday evening, May 2, for the first Rockland Art Walk of the season, as galleries downtown propped opened their doors and welcomed several hours worth of…
Maine Artists
Spruce Point Inn is known for immersing guests in the local art, history and cultural scene of Midcoast Maine, from its “innkeepers tips” to its smartphone app. Over the winter, the inn has…
A look at the nexus of money, politics and power
ROCKLAND — Two Maine showings of the HBO documentary film Toxic Hot Seat will take place this weekend, March 29, in Portland, and March 30, in Rockland. They are both free and feature the…
March 21 viewing party of sphere before it is transported to Portland Jetport
WARREN — After Penobscot Bay Pilot launched in 2012, one of our first stories focused on Warren scrap metal sculptor Jay Sawyer and his quirky metal spheres in a piece titled…
Internationally acclaimed Canadian nature photographer, gardener and writer Freeman …
Maine Artists
There's a new art trail in Maine.
Thanks to Colby College and Kohler Foundation of Wisconsin there is a “trail” of wood sculptures and…
Realizing it or not, they’re engaging in fusion marketing
Last year around this time, we wrote a story about small businesses joining forces with artists and artisans, titled…
The Farnsworth Art Museum celebrates Robert Indiana’s Love exhibit with free admission
ROCKLAND—Love means... never having to pay admission. (That agonized groan you hear is Erich Segal rolling in his grave for butchering his famous quote. Sorry.) But I’m trying to keep the mood…
2014 U.S. National Toboggan Championships
HOPE — Nestled next to Hatchet Mountain Public House and across the street from elephants Rosie and Opal, Ben McGinnis lives in a modest little house dappled with his art. There are watercolor and…
Applications are being accepted for the Monhegan Artists’ Residency for emerging Maine artists. In addition to two, five-week residencies or Maine-based visual artists on Monhegan Island, the…
Carvings in Amphitheatre; skiing and snowboarding in Harbor Park
CAMDEN — Winterfest and…
Photos of the Old Moon
Midwinter’s round moon rose out of the eastern sky Friday, Jan. 17, around 8 p.m. Tammy Davis, of Appleton, caught its ascent through the clouds with her camera. “…
