First Friday Art Walk, Rockland ME, 5-8pm, 7 September 2018
Rockland’s Penultimate Art Walk for 2018 will be on Friday, 7 September. Many of Rockland’s galleries will be open, including (but not limited to): The Farnsworth Art Museum, Art Space, Yvette Torres Fine Art, The Strand Theatre, Craft Gallery, The Art Loft, The Gautschi Center, Harbor Square Gallery, The Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery, Jonathan Frost Gallery and Black Hole.
Art Space will showcase the work of Penny Markley, Leecia Price, Laurie Lofman Bellmore and Sandra Leinonen Dunn. The subjects of Penny Markley’s paintings are inspired by twelve years of visiting Monhegan Island for a week each June. Creating something unique on an island so thoroughly painted by others can be a challenge, but she continues to find interesting, beautiful scenes to explore in paint. Leecia Price is an encaustic and oil painter as well as a beekeeper. She combines beeswax with oil paints and dry artist pigments to create her contemporary paintings. She remains fascinated by the tactile properties of the wax, enhancing its translucency and shine with the effects of scraping, layering, incising, melting, and fusing with a blowtorch. Laurie Lofman Bellmore, is a self-taught jeweler with years of experience working with fine metals, dichroic glass, and vitreous enamels. Her exhibition includes new “Diptych Wall Pieces” and “Sea Splash Jewelry”, which reveal the spirit of our coastal surroundings. Sandra Leinonen Dunn is a Maine artist. Her style is a mixture of classical old-world realism and contemporary impressionism. Sandra paints florals, still life, and landscapes, all rich in color and painterly brushstrokes.
Yvette Torres Fine Art opens “Angelo Ippolito, Color as Light”, continues through September 16th.
The Strand Theatre will be screening BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999) as part of our Music On Screen Series at 8pm
CRAFT Gallery opens its annual “Black and White” show on First Friday, focussing on mixed and traditional craft media rendered in black and white. The gallery also introduces guided all day tours to CRAFT Gallery artists studios on Tuesdays in October.
The Art Loft will be open and showing a selection of work by Katharina Gifford as well as a return of some works by Justin Kinney.
The Gautschi Center will host the opening of “Dream Tunnel”, a special exhibition of new paintings created by Brigitte Gautschi. Inspired by her summer in Lincolnville, being engulfed in nature, Brigitte continues to find her inner peace through her creativity. She describes the paintings in this show as “A tunnel of my dreams. Everything I was painting was round in the beginning, as if I was going into a tunnel deep inside myself.” Guests will have the opportunity to meet the artist and discuss the new works. Throughout the evening in the outdoor courtyard, the Elm Street Galleries are hosting a musical performance by Meghan Clarke.
Harbor Square Gallery will be welcoming new artist, Kim Bernard.
Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery will be having an opening reception for two new shows. Libbey Seigars of Whitefield Pottery will be exhibiting her hand-thrown, nature-inspired tableware. The Women Painters of Midcoast Maine & Friends’ show, Close to Nature is inspired by and focused on the landscapes and nature of coastal Maine.
The Jonathan Frost Gallery will be hosting the opening reception for a show called “Abstract and Semi-Abstract,” with artists Brenda Free, Terry Hire, Sally Lee and Linda Simmons-Arnold.
Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland is featuring “IDK,” an exhibition of paintings by Tollef Runquist that explores the intersection of personal reflection, archetypes, fantasy and play. Runquist’s paintings combine images and symbols drawn from lived experience, emotional landscapes and cultural influences, creating an intuitive dialogue between imagery and meaning. “My work explores a space where […]
Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport is presenting a full schedule of fall exhibitions and performances, including a members show, a collaborative exhibition by longtime artist friends Tim Sample and Linda Rowell-Kelley and several concerts. The gallery’s fall members exhibition, “Nature’s Palette: Art Inspired by the Season,” will remain on view through Oct. 18. Featuring paintings, drawings, […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast will feature printmaker, collage artist and sculptor Jeff Wahlstrom from Oct. 19 to Nov. 22. An Art Walk reception will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 23, with an artist talk at 5 p.m. Based in Bangor, Wahlstrom creates block prints and watercolor collages inspired by the natural […]
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD), based in Berkeley, California, is accepting submissions for its 2027 members exhibition, “Prototyping Futures of Making: Water, Data, and Living Systems.” The exhibition will explore the relationships among water, data, ecological systems and emerging technologies, asking how artists can engage with living systems as sites of collaboration, construction and consequence. […]
Triangle Gallery in Rockland is presenting three exhibitions through Oct. 31, including an extended solo exhibition by Carter Wentworth, a group fiber arts show and a fall exhibition of work by gallery artists. Wentworth’s “Sound of Rain Crossing the Lake” will remain on view in the upstairs gallery through the end of October. “Interwoven,” a […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast will present “Found in Translation,” a mixed-media exhibition featuring Maine artists Deborah Jellison, JoAnne Houlsen and John LeBlanc, from Oct. 23 to Nov. 28. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 23. The exhibition brings together three artist friends whose work explores familiar Maine landscapes, objects […]
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth is presenting “Form Meets Surface,” an exhibition highlighting porcelain ceramics by potter Mark Bell and collaborative works created with painter William Irvine. The artists, both established in their respective fields, have worked together since 2015 to create porcelain vases and plates that combine Bell’s ceramic forms with Irvine’s painted […]
Barn Gallery in Ogunquit concluded its 2026 exhibition season Oct. 12, but the venue will continue to welcome visitors for two performances in the 19th annual Elizabeth Dunaway Burnham Piano Festival. Pianist, composer and vocalist Zahili Zamora will return to Ogunquit with her Afro Cuban Jazz Trio for a performance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. […]
The Brunswick Guild Fine Craft Show will return to the historic Fort Andross Mill in Brunswick on Oct. 24 and 25, celebrating its 10th season with work by 40 juried Maine craft artists. Presented by Shop Maine Craft, the indoor show will feature basketry, ceramics, decorative and wearable fiber art, furniture, glass, jewelry, mixed media, […]
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