Rockland’s Final Art Walk for 2018 will be on Friday, 5 October from 5-8pm. Many of Rockland’s galleries will be open, including (but not limited to): Black Hole, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Art Space, Yvette Torres Fine Art, The Strand Theatre, Caldbeck Gallery, Craft Gallery, The Gautschi Center, The Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery, Stanhope & Spencer & The Jonathan Frost Gallery.
This month Art Space will be showcasing the work of Janalee Welch, Obrianna Vine, and Melissa Post van der Burg. Obrianna Cornelius’s soft and simple watercolors will warm your heart as the weather begins to grow cold. She is known for her vivid colors and bold brushstrokes. Simplifying the details, she creates calm and harmonious paintings that are refreshing to view. Melissa Post van der Burg’s oil paintings depict the everyday people and places of Maine. Her work is fresh and vibrant, bold and lifelike, drawing attention from across the room. Janalee Welch will show some of her favorite pastel paintings. Janalee’s love of vivid color, the autumn palette, fresh greens of spring, and the striking contrast of strong light and deep shadow are evident in her work.
The Farnsworth Art Museum will be celebrating the opening of a new show: Maine and the Index of American Design. There will be a barbershop quartet and a book signing for the new catalog.
Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery will be exhibiting Libbey Seigars of Whitefield Pottery and the Women Painters of Midcoast Maine & Friends are exhibiting their nature-based art.
The Strand Theatre will have a screening of “BlacKkKlansman” at 5:30pm, and their Music on Screen Series film “Two Trains Runnin’” at 8pm.
CRAFT Galley opens “Erasing the Line Between Fine Art and Craft” to celebrate National Craft Month, showing ten award winning major master fine craft artists woking in Maine today.
Yvette Torres Fine Art presents a group of artists whose work depicts the injustice and consequences of war, genocide and the resulting plight of refugees, included are, Samuel Gelber, James Graham, Frances Kidder, Cynthia Motian McGuril, Winslow Myers, Elaine Schmitt Urbain and John Urbain. SPECIAL EVENT, on Sunday, October 7 at 3pm, artist, author and activist, Winslow Myers will do a presentation titled “All Good Art is Protest Art”. Winslow Myers interests have been divided Between painting, teaching and citizen activism.
For the last art walk, The Gautschi Center have booked Windfern Ensemble for a performance in the courtyard.
Stanhope & Spencer will be open and hosting a reception for film and gelatin print photographer John Layton
The Jonathan Frost Gallery will be showing a wide range of work by gallery artists.
Dominique Ostuni’s solo exhibition, “Would an Angel Apologize for Spilling Champagne,” is on view through Oct. 3 at Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland. A centerpiece of the exhibition is “Excess Comes Naturally,” an elaborate mirror standing more than 8 feet tall. The work begins with an ordinary functional object, then overwhelms that function with porcelain, […]
Waterfall Arts will invite the public inside more than 40 artist studios during the Lincoln Street Center Fall Open Studios from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 17 at 24 Lincoln St. in Rockland. During the free event, artists will open their studios and welcome visitors into their creative spaces. Guests can explore Rockland’s historic former […]
“Made in Maine,” the Maine Art Gallery’s annual member show, features more than 100 works of art across two floors of the historic Old Academy building in Wiscasset. The exhibition is on view through Oct. 18. Sara Stites of Thomaston, a new member, is showing at the gallery for the first time. Her oil painting […]
High Peaks Artisan Guild in Kingfield features Western Maine watercolor artist Karen Jordan Paul throughout September. Paul draws inspiration from wildlife found throughout Maine, particularly wild birds and fish. The guild celebrated Paul as its featured artist of the month during the Sept. 4 Kingfield Art Walk. High Peaks Artisan Guild is at 245 Main […]
Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle presents “Material Storytelling,” a three-artist exhibition featuring new work by Sheep Jones, Michele Ratté Delphin and Barbara Sullivan, through Oct. 11. The three artists use distinct materials and techniques to explore narrative, light and the quiet poetry of everyday objects. Jones brings her signature combination of oil and cold wax […]
Photographer Melonie Bennett will discuss her exhibition and debut monograph, “Holy Cow!,” from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland. The event will include an interview, reading and book signing. Photographer and writer Robert Diamante, a friend and fellow photographer, will interview Bennett. “Holy Cow!” presents an […]
Centre Street Arts Gallery in downtown Bath will open its fall show during the Bath Art Walk from 4 to 7 p.m. Sept. 18. The gallery represents 20 local artists and will feature new work in its fall exhibition. Visitors can meet the artists, explore the show and enjoy refreshments during the reception. Centre Street […]
Maine artist Daryne Rockett will present “Restoring Liberty,” an exhibition of monotypes and mixed-media work, from Oct. 2 to Nov. 24 at the McDade Gallery at Bangor Public Library. The exhibition brings together two interconnected bodies of work examining freedom, democracy, justice and hope. In a series of layered monotypes, the Statue of Liberty appears […]
Maine Craft Weekend, an annual statewide celebration of craft, community and creativity, will return Oct. 3 and 4. The free, self-guided tour invites visitors to discover the people, places and stories behind Maine’s craft communities. Hundreds of participating artists and locations will host open studios, workshops, pop-up markets, exhibitions, fairs, artist talks, special events and […]