This past summer, Maine Farmland Trust’s Fiore Art Center offered four virtual residencies. Instead of working at the beautiful Rolling Acres Farm at the Fiore Art Center in Jefferson, ME, the residents worked from their homes, farms, gardens and studios. From January 5-April 9, 2021, the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery website will host an online exhibit of the residents’ work.
Performance artist Katie Addada Shlon, from Maryland, used natural sounds and instruments assembled from pottery shards and other discarded materials to depart from traditional forms and structures. Her goal is to reframe our experience of music, connecting ideas of regenerative agriculture and performance in nature.
Photographer and videographer James R. (Rob) Southard, from Kentucky, shared images from his ongoing photography series, The Kentucky Farmer, which documents farmers of all kinds in his home state. His photographs record rural landscapes and studies of everyday agricultural life.
Non-fiction literary artist Margot Anne Kelley, from Maine, shared writings from her essay about seeds and seed-saving, with added exploration of some of the odd connections between seeds and viruses in Germ Lines. Her work ranges from habits of ancient hunter-gatherers and plantings in Roman herb gardens to writings from Henry David Thoreau.
Literary artist Sophie Kelmenson, presents video excerpts from her dissertation Challenges To and Challenges from Scale in Alternative Food Systems, exploring the promise of using alternative food systems as a mechanism for sustainable economic development.
Virtual artist talks for the exhibit, open to the public, are Friday, February 19, 2021 at 5pm. The artists share their work through Zoom and describe their processes, challenges and achievements during their residencies. RSVP here: https://www.mainefarmlandtrust.org/event/artist-talks-fiore-residents-exhibit/
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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