A design created by Rumford artist and teacher Brent Bachelder was selected as the winning logo for the 2019 Moxie Festival. The artwork consists of four iconic images, all of them with a bottle of Moxie. DaVinci’s Mona Lisa, Vincent Van Gogh, and a Picasso-esque figure are shown enjoying the distinctively different beverage while the figure from Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” wails because his Moxie bottle is empty. Moxie Festival Curator Julie-Ann Baumer said “the competition for this year’s logo design contest was remarkable. We had 28 entries and we deliberated for 2 hours. Bachelder’s work most clearly fit this year’s festival theme ‘Moxie Goes Artsy.’”
Bachelder, originally from Newry, is a visual artist, muralist, and sculptor. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Rhode Island College, he was the designer of Providence’s Wickenden Street mural, a city landmark from 1997 until the overpass was demolished in 2010. Bachelder teaches Art at Meroby Middle School in Mexico and also runs a full service art and design studio in Rumford, Club Neopolsi Creations. In addition to a $750 cash prize, Bachelder will receive the first 2019 printed T-shirt and may serve as a parade float judge. But does he like Moxie? “It’s better than I remember it as a kid,” Bachelder said. The Moxie Festival, celebrating Maine’s official soft drink, is always the second weekend in July. Mark your calendars for the 2018 Moxie Festival, July 12 – 14, 2019.
Shop Maine Craft presents “INKED: Natural Pigments from Mexico to Maine,” a solo exhibition by Kaspar Heinrici of Treib Designs, on view Feb. 27 to April 10 at the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner. The exhibition brings together drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture to examine the intersections of material, perception and place, grounding […]
Lights Out presents an artist talk and interview screening with Karen Jelenfy from 4 to 6 p.m. March 10 at The Commons in Belfast, held in conjunction with Jelenfy’s solo exhibition “Horizons.” The evening includes a screening of her 2021 interview “A Strong Dose,” followed by a discussion with Jelenfy, Lights Out creative director Karlë […]
Nicoletta Siccone, artist and art educator, will serve as the March Artist-in-Residence at the Deer Isle Artists Association. Siccone is a multifaceted artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, jewelry and glass, and she regularly exhibits her zipper jewelry, gyotaku and sumi-e at the association’s gallery. During her residency, Siccone will explore color through the creation […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast is pleased to welcome guest artist Bernadette deCesare (March 25-April 19) and year-round artist Emma Schurink. Sadly, Debbie Mitchell, a founding member/owner of the gallery, is retiring. DeCesare and Schurink will speak about their work at this month’s Fourth Friday Gallery Night, which runs from 4 to 7 p.m. March […]
Join Centre St Arts Gallery for its early spring opening reception in Bath with new work from 22 local artists. The Spring Art Reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. March 20, with four new and two returning artists joining 16 well-known members of the gallery. Noel Bicknell’s fresh and striking watercolors are […]
The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts has a new home in Portland. You did it! Your donations and support helped us acquire our new space! This isn’t the end of our capital campaign or construction needs, but we’ve jumped the largest hurdle and we have new keys thanks to you! Now we can start planning […]
“Displacement: Immigrant Portraits” arrives at the Rockport Public Library, 1 Limerock St., Rockport, from March 4 to 28, bringing a timely and quietly forceful body of watercolor work by Jean Kigel into a public civic space. Kigel’s portraits depict immigrants from India, China, Gaza, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Mexico and Latin America, […]
One of the most idiosyncratic artists of post-War American art, Robert Hamilton (1917-2004) taught painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design for 34years. Yvonne Jacquette, Richard Merkin, George Lloyd and Dean Richardson were some of his many students. For Hamilton, who flew over 100 missions in WW II as a P-47 fighter […]
Calling all local parents and educators! Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport is officially inviting all student artists (grades K-12) to submit their work for an exhibition celebrating Youth Art Month 2026. Whether your students are painters, sculptors, or digital creators, this is their moment to shine in a professional gallery setting. Registration closes March 20. Details […]
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