AUGUST
through Sept 2: Joe Dumais and Katie Thurlow @ The Center for Maine Craft
Aug 16: Master Craft Artist Award Presentation 6pm in Belfast
August 16 – 18: Maine Crafts Guild Belfast Fine Craft Show
Aug 24: Portland Fine Craft Show
LOOKING AHEAD
Sept 6: Sign Up Deadline for November Downeast Magazine Co-Op Ad
Sept 14: Darkness and the Light: Curatorial Talk with Lissa Hunter
Sept 14 & 15: Maine Crafts Guild Scarborough Fine Craft Show
Sept 23: Artist Application Deadline: Tandem Holiday Open House & Fundraiser
Oct 1-31: 2019 Craft Apprentice Program Exhibition @ Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Oct 4: 2019 CAP Exhibition Opening @ Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Oct 5-6: Maine Craft Weekend 2019
Oct 26 & 27: Maine Crafts Guild Brunswick Fine Craft Show
Oct 27: Master Craft Exhibition @ Fuller closes
Dec 7: Tandem Holiday Open House & Fundraiser 12-5pm
Dec 13-15: MCA Mentor Booth @ CraftBoston Holiday
Dec 14: Tandem Holiday Open House & Fundraiser 12-5pm
Find an Event Calendar and Artist Deadlines on the MCA website.
Image: MCA Management Staff, photo credit and gratitude to Maine photographer Michael D. Wilson!
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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