MCA Program Calendar: Upcoming Events and Deadlines
2019
Jan 15: Sign Up Deadline for Maine Gallery Guide Co-Op Ad
Jan 19: M2M Workshop: Speed Designing with Jolene McGowan
Jan 31: Portland Fine Craft Show Application Deadline
February: Registration opens for Maine Craft Weekend
Feb15: Sign Up Deadline for Mother’s Day Ad in Downeast Magazine
April 5: Sign Up Deadline for June Maine Magazine Co-Op Ad
May 3: Sign Up Deadline for July Downeast Magazine Co-Op Ad
May 9-12: Annual MCA Workshop Weekend @ Haystack
June 9: Public Opening Reception MCA Master Craft Artist Ten-Year Anniversary Exhibition @ Fuller Craft Museum
June 1: 2019 Seconds & Supplies SALE @ Running with Scissors
June 28: Sign Up Deadline for Portland Monthly Art Annual Co-Op Ad
Sept 6: Sign Up Deadline for November Downeast Magazine Co-Op Ad
Oct 5-6: Maine Craft Weekend 2019
APPLY by January 31, 2019
Call for exhibitors for the 5th Annual Portland Fine Craft Show, August 24 from 9am-5pm on Congress Street in Portland, ME. Apply as a fine craft artist working in baskets, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, stone or wood. The Portland Fine Craft Show remains one of the only Maine craft shows open to artists not living in Maine, and has a reputation for being well-organized and high quality, with high attendance.
PORTLAND FINE CRAFT SHOW 2019 JURORS
Elena Kubler | Owner/Curator, The Turtle Gallery
Kazeem Lawal | Owner/Curator, Portland Trading Co.
Anja Levitties | Chair, 2019 Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show
January 19, 2019: Speed Designing with Jolene McGowan
Are you looking to grow your 2019 audience and further your visual web presence? Join us in Ellsworth at Artsworth for a new professional development workshop! Participants will leave this workshop with their own Mailchimp account and a completed promotional flier designed and created in Adobe Spark featuring their work or business. All of this will be accomplished in one workshop, setting the participant up for future promotions.
Art Agent Maine is the state’s dedicated art agency, founded and run by Aurora Winkler, who has spent more than fifteen years in Maine’s art world as a gallery manager, director, and curator. The agency represents working artists across Maine and New England, handling gallery submissions, outreach, catalogs, promotion, and exhibition curation so that artists […]
Shop Maine Craft presents “Stopping & Staring: New Works by Lisa Houck,” on view through Nov. 10 at the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner. The exhibition brings together linoleum block prints, mosaics and watercolors inspired by birds, trees, landscapes and the interconnected rhythms of nature. Across these media, Houck transforms familiar elements of […]
Triangle Gallery in Rockland will feature three exhibitions during the First Friday Art Walk from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 2. An artist talk with Carter Wentworth at 3 p.m. will begin the day’s festivities. Wentworth’s solo exhibition, “Sound of Rain Crossing the Lake,” has been extended through Oct. 31 in the upstairs gallery. In […]
The Kittery Art Association presents “Shifting Colors,” on view through Oct. 25 at its gallery in Kittery. The exhibition celebrates the beauty of change while exploring impermanence, memory and the cycles of life. Autumn serves as a season of reflection, transition and renewal. An opening reception will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. […]
Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill will host an informal artist talk with Elizabeth Adams at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2, with the gallery remaining open until 7 p.m. Adams will discuss her work, her ideas about color and the ways textiles enter her process. The talk will allow time for questions, conversation and discussion with […]
The Union of Maine Visual Artists, based in Harpswell, will hold its statewide annual meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 17 via Zoom, with possible local gatherings for members who want to share lunch and watch together. Members interested in hosting a gathering can add it to the UMVA Members Calendar for inclusion […]
The Deer Isle Artists Association presents “Transitions,” on view through Oct. 18 at its gallery in Deer Isle Village. The exhibition explores changing seasons, evolving forms and shifting moods through painting, ceramics, glass, photography and metalwork. Featured artists are Christopher Brumfield, Ethan Cohen, Jean Gresham, Jill Finsen, Susan Keating, June Kellogg, Jadyn LaDeau, BC Martin, […]
Rockport artist Carol L. Douglas has work in fall exhibitions and charity auctions in Maine and California, and her latest “Monday Morning Art School” article offers a drawing exercise focused on close observation. FALL EXHIBITIONS “Drawn to Creation: Two Views,” featuring Douglas and Naomi Aho, remains on view through Oct. 9 at Carol L. Douglas […]
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