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A highlight of the show is June Kim’s “Alien Dog” (2025), a mixed-media piece on inkjet print.

The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) is proud to present “Women in Print: A Celebration of Works on Paper,” an exhibition honoring the vision, innovation and impact of women photographers. The show will open with a free public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 1.

Curated alongside a special selection of wines by women vintners from Grippy Tannins, this exhibition highlights the creativity and range of women photographers working in Maine and New England today.

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Berenice Abbott, “Route One Texaco.”

“Unlike other mediums, women were at the forefront of the advent of photography as makers,” says MMPA director Denise Froehlich. “Because of this, they helped shape the development of the art form, and experimented with every aspect of the medium. One hundred and eighty-ish years later in Maine it’s still happening. MMPA is lucky to collaborate with quite a few contemporary innovators and experimenters — women photographers that we esteem. This exhibit runs the gamut from the traditional to the avant-garde, executed with superior works in a range of contemporary and antique processes. The topics also have a breadth of variety: the self, the landscape, conservation, motherhood, companions (or in some cases dogs), aging, place, unconditional love, documentation, the psyche, trees, identity or cultural heritage (via food), feminism and beauty are all explored in this exhibit. Come, meditate on the medium and the great women photographers of Maine and New England.”

Featured artists include June Kim, Deb Dawson, Joyce Tenneson, Lisa Mossel, Jeanie Hutchins, Sal Taylor Kydd, Asia Kepka, Tara Sellios, Claire Seidl, Elizabeth Greenberg, Astrid Reischwitz, Suzanne Theodora White, Bernice Abbott, Caroline E. Savage, Sara Stites, Karen Olson, Linda Connor, Fay Godwin, Carol Eisenberg, Christine Higgins, D.M. Witman and Susan Rosenberg Jones.

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D.M. Witman, “Elegy X,” 1/3.

Admission to the exhibition is free. MMPA believes in making art accessible to everyone, and community support helps fund exhibitions, acquisitions, research, conservation, education and internship opportunities. The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is at 15 Middle St., A3, Portland. See www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org for more information.