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.
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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