George Marshall Store Gallery opens season in York
George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened its 2026 season on May 30 with fresh work by an expanded roster of more than 30 regional artists, on view through Oct. 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and by appointment. The first reception of the season, June 13 from 5 […]
Maine Art Gallery opens ‘Art to Table: Visual Sustenance’ in Wiscasset
Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset opened “Art to Table: Visual Sustenance” to an enthusiastic crowd, with 88 works across all mediums filling the historic building’s two floors. The exhibition, juried by internationally recognized Maine-based figurative painter Tina Ingraham, traces the broad spectrum of ways artists interpret food, farming and the table — from abstract to […]
Wiscasset Bay Gallery opens ‘The Grand Tour in Thirty Days’
Wiscasset Bay Gallery, celebrating its 42nd year, opened “The Grand Tour in Thirty Days” May 23 in Wiscasset. The exhibition takes viewers through some of the most popular and remote locales across Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, tracing the evolution of painting from realism to impressionism to modernism. Among the standout works […]
UMVA opens two spring shows and call for art for Dreaming at Dawn
The Union of Maine Visual Artists opened two spring exhibitions in May in Harpswell. “Celebrating Hope” launched with a well-attended opening reception during Portland’s first art walk of the season. “It’s the Small Things” opened the same week at the Jean Picker Gallery at Camden Public Library, with a reception held May 9. Thanks were […]
Kittery Art Association showcases K-12 student art
The Kittery Art Association held its annual K-12 student art show May 7 to 16 in Kittery, celebrating emerging young artists from Mitchell, Shapleigh and Traip Academy schools. The exhibit was supported by Cole Harrison Insurance, The Fabulous Find and an anonymous donor, with additional community support from Beach Pea Baking Co., BJ’s Wholesale Club, […]
Centre Street Arts Gallery holds May reception in Bath
Centre Street Arts Gallery, an artist-owned and -operated gallery in downtown Bath, held a reception May 15 to celebrate new work by its 22 members and the arrival of the summer season. The show featured fresh work across a range of styles, with paintings by members including Livy Glaubitz, Kat Logan and Shelby Patton among […]
UMVA invited teaching artists to Zoom brainstorm
The Union of Maine Visual Artists invited member teaching artists to a Zoom meeting May 17 to brainstorm ways the organization can better support independent instructors and those teaching for organizations. Topics included creating a database of organizations and artists’ experiences with them, writing downloadable tip sheets on working in public and private schools, community […]
Barn Gallery opens its 2026 season in Ogunquit with exhibitions, workshops and the 72nd annual auction
Barn Gallery, home of the Ogunquit Art Association, opens its 2026 season May 20 and runs through Oct. 12. The season features four rotating exhibition cycles, a new artist-member jury, the 72nd Annual OAA Art Auction and a full program of artist demonstrations and workshops. The Ogunquit Art Association, established in 1928, is Maine’s original […]
Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates seven years in Portland
Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland’s Black-owned, Black-led, and Black- and Brown-centered arts and culture nonprofit — the first of its kind in Maine — is marking its seventh anniversary this month. Since opening in 2019, the organization has embodied a multiracial approach to the intersections of citizenship, community-building and creativity. Founded by co-founders Daniel and Marcia […]
Transmissions quilts exhibition comes to Belfast with workshops and open mic
Waterfall Arts in Belfast will host “Transmissions Quilts: Home & Away,” a weeklong exhibition of quilts, poetry, oral histories and interdisciplinary works, June 5 to 12. Presented in collaboration with Trans Poetics Archive, Out in the Open and the Belfast Poetry Festival, the exhibition and all accompanying events are free and open to the public. […]
