ROCKLAND and ROCKPORT — OUT Maine has partnered with Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) and Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) to bring LGBTQIA2S+ youth art and writing to Midcoast Maine during Pride Month (June). This year's theme for the art and writing exhibitions is Queer Joy.

The Youth Pride Art Show is on display at two locations in Rockland: the ArtLab window of the CMCA at 21 Winter Street, and Rock City Café at 316 Main Street. The works featured are a combination of works specific to the theme, along with a series of images from workshops held at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 2024 OUT Maine weekend retreat.

The Pride Walk features LGBTQIA2S+ and allied youth creative pieces in a series of display cases along a wooded 1.4-mile loop trail at Erickson Fields Preserve. The trail runs along MCHT’s Teen Ag Crew food bank farm and Community Gardens at 164 West Street in Rockport.

OUT Maine is a nonprofit working to create more welcoming and affirming communities for Maine's diverse queer youth in all their intersectional identities by changing the very systems that serve them. More information about OUT Maine and Pride events in Maine can be found online at https://www.outmaine.org/.

More information about MCHT’s Erickson Fields Preserve and the CMCA can be found at https://www.mcht.org/preserve/erickson-fields/ and https://cmcanow.org/.