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!
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth is presenting three exhibitions featuring Philip Barter, Gregory Dunham, Heidi Daub and Richard Keen. “My Maine” is the first retrospective of Maine painter Philip Barter since his death in 2024. Known for his stylized renderings of trees, rivers, mountains and clouds, Barter developed a distinctive visual language through bold […]
The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland will host an artist panel from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 21 in conjunction with “Investigations into the Metaphysical,” on view through Oct. 3. The exhibition brings together work by Brendan Bullock, Marianne Bernstein, Brenton Hamilton, Peter Shellenberger, Fern Nesson, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Elizabeth Opalenik, Luc Demers […]
High Peaks Artisan Guild in Kingfield is featuring the work of multidisciplinary artist, sculptor and jeweler Samuel Goldstein throughout August. Goldstein, who lives in the Western Maine mountains, has spent more than eight years creating small sculptural pieces and jewelry from precious minerals and stones including rainbow fluorite, alabaster, lapis lazuli and Oregon sunstone. His […]
The Boothbay Region Art Foundation in Boothbay Harbor is accepting submissions for “ARTinME 2026,” its fourth annual juried exhibition celebrating large-format art. The exhibition, on view from Sept. 30 to Nov. 7, is open to full- and part-time Maine artists working in large two-dimensional formats in a variety of media and styles. Two-dimensional works must […]
The Deer Isle Artists Association is presenting “Small Works,” its popular annual exhibition showcasing work by artist members, through Sept. 13 at its gallery in Deer Isle Village. The exhibition features small works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, weaving, woodwork, glass and jewelry. Buyers may take purchased work home immediately, […]
Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill will open “Seen at the End of the World,” co-curated with Christine Lafuente, on Aug. 23. The exhibition will feature work by Scott Baltz, Stanley Bielen, Avy Claire, Christine Lafuente, Carol Pelletier and Stuart Shils. In the Project Space, the gallery will present “Uncharted Seas,” featuring work by Kate […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast will welcome guest artist Nell Parker for “New Topics: Spirits in the Land,” on view from Aug. 25 to Sept. 20. The exhibition features linocut and woodcut relief prints that explore animist possibilities within the local landscape through Parker’s pictorial heritage rooted in Western art history. Her work draws on […]
George Marshall Store Gallery in York is showcasing an evolving selection of work by regional artists alongside “Critters,” a group exhibition on view through Aug. 30. Among the works currently highlighted is Amanda Case Millis’ monotype “Three Mornings on Monhegan II,” inspired by one of the artist’s visits to Monhegan Island. Michael Stasiuk’s sculptural “Black […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland is presenting four exhibitions through Aug. 29: Scott Kelley’s “The Whale,” Bo Bartlett’s “Eye of the Beholder,” Richard Estes’ “Woods and Waters” and “Sea Change: A Group Exhibition.” Kelley’s “The Whale” celebrates the 175th anniversary of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” a novel that has fascinated the artist since he first encountered […]
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