Author: AnthonyMGSG22
Call for fall workshop proposals
Be a part of MCA’s Fall Educational Workshops series by telling MCA what topics you would like to learn more about or teach in fall of 2022. Need a hand with an aspect of growing your business? Want to learn about paper making, block printing, salt-fired ceramics or wood carving? Are you an expert on […]
MCA to host spring educational workshops
Registration is open for the following spring workshops via MCA. Wildcrafted Basketry with Rebecca May Verrill In this hands-on workshop, we will explore an introduction to traditional basket weaving techniques with round, regionally wild harvested, flexible fibers. Great variations will occur! No prior basketweaving experience is required, though strong hands and enthusiasm are recommended. When: […]
Bjorn Runquist workshop at Salt Pond Studio begins April 5
Join midcoast artist Bjorn Runquist at Salt Pond Studio in Friendship for a four-session workshop. The class will work from still life studies and landscape photos and will meet outside, weather permitting. There will be assignments to complete during the week, and the following class will start with critiques of the preceding week’s work. Participants […]
Archipelago is open and ready for spring
After two months of hard work behind the scenes, Archipelago is open and ready for spring. Staff has made several changes inside the Rockland location, including new artwork in the store and gallery, new products from artists and, most exciting, a fresh new wall map with information about Archipelago and the Island Institute. Stop into […]
Call for Nominations
Nominations are open for the 2022 Maine Craft Artist Awards. In 2009, the Maine Crafts Association began to honor individual Maine craft artists each year by awarding recognition for a body of work or career of service that is exceptional. This award will confer the prestige and acknowledgment that comes with having the artist’s […]
Rockport artist creates work to benefit Ukraine
Rockport artist Ann Tracy has created a special piece of digital art that she is offering for sale, and 50% of the price will be donated to United Help Ukraine, a nonprofit charity in Kyiv. The print, 9 x 12 inches on archival paper printed in her studio with archival pigment inks, costs $20. […]
Evelyn Dunphy’s Art & TV Show ‘Rockets to the Moon with Spacex and NASA’
Maine artist Evelyn Dunphy recently received the news that her Art TV show produced by the Australian art video company Colour in Your Life founded by Graeme Stevenson OAM, would be traveling to the moon to be placed in a time capsule on the South Pole for perpetuity. Lunar Codex payload coordinator and curator Samuel […]
‘Rejuvenation’ group exhibit at Monkitree
Monkitree invites the public to “Rejuvenation,” a show of works by eight local artists. In Maine, thoughts of spring revive us, even if it doesn’t yet feel like spring. With “Rejuvenation,” artists are sharing, through their art, what reinvigorates them. While nature is a common theme — early blooms, fresh green landscapes, wildlife — sometimes […]
Portland Art Gallery Featured Artist: Scott Bowe
Maine. I grew up in Connecticut but spent every summer at a waterfront cottage built by my great-grandfather in Freeport. My childhood “building blocks” were memories of being with extended family. We moved to Freeport when I was a teenager. The combination of the warmth I feel towards Maine, the coastline, family and friends, and the […]
Youth Art Month at the Harlow: March 2022
In celebration of art educators and art students, the Harlow is delighted to host the following free events for Youth Art Month. FAMILY ART DAY 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 12 Join Harlow artist members and staff for a day of family-friendly arts and crafts. Drop by anytime to join the art-making. All ages […]
