Special Summer Opportunity for Maine Artists

The Maine Arts Commission’s Maine Arts Leadership Initiative (MALI) will offer a one-day summer professional development intensive specifically geared toward Maine teaching artists, and/or those artists who would like to expand their work to PK-12 teaching, on Wednesday, August 10, from 8 to 4 p.m. at the University of Southern Maine. The intensive is part […]

Late Summer 2016 New Era Gallery opens August 6

New Era Gallery’s late summer show will open on Saturday, August 6, with an artist’s talk at 4:30pm and reception from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.  The gallery on Main Street in Vinalhaven will feature the work of photographer Joel Greenberg, painters Charles Miller and Herb Parsons, and sculptor and printmaker Kitty Wales.  Rich Entel’s  “Cardboard Menagerie” will […]

“Summer Stable Show” at Maine Farmland Trust Gallery

“Lyrical” is a word that comes to mind when visiting the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery’s Summer Stable Show. A favorite with returning art-lovers and summer visitors alike, this is the gallery’s annual large group show, showcasing seventeen Maine artists this year, including Dahlov Ipcar. “What I love about this show is that it is often […]

John Winship Catch at Carver Hill Gallery

Carver Hill Gallery, 338 Main Street, Rockland, Maine, will open a solo show of paintings by John Winship on First Friday, August 5, 2016 from 5 – 8 pm. “John Winship is a painter of dark and evocative scenes; dreamlike, mysterious pictures of people who seem to be from another time.”—Linda Wertheimer, NPR, “All Things […]

JEAN KIGEL: 18TH ANNUAL EASTERN VIEWS: Watercolors, Oils, Asian brush Paintings

View Jean Kigel’s new paintings at the mid-century modern Brick House Gallery, 176 Winslow Mills Road, Waldoboro from August 12th to 14th.  Reception Friday August 12th from 5-7.  Now in its 18th season, Jean Kigel’s Annual Eastern Views combines motifs from Asian and Maine.  This year she presents an unexpectedly broader vision, depicted in a […]

“Art in Black and White” at CRAFT Gallery

CRAFT Gallery opens “Art in Black and White” on Friday, August 5th. Working in black ad white helps the artist as well as the viewer  to look an  object from a different perspective, unencumbered by the element of color. Wether it is drawing, weaving, stitching, shaping clay or blowing glass, black and white tells a […]

“Maine and America in the Twentieth Century” opens at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery on August 11th

“Maine and America in the Twentieth Century” opens at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery in Wiscasset, Maine, on August 11. The exhibition explores the development of modernism in American art during the late 1920’s through the 1950’s.  A number of major works by New Hope Pennsylvania artist John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) are featured in the exhibition. […]

Lans Studio and Gallery unveils new work

Award winning Stonington artist Lorraine Lans has unveiled a new work titled “Moonlight Howl 101”. Come by to see her work at Lans Studio & Gallery Located at 15 North Seabreeze Ave. She is in the collection of Acadia National Park and other private collections. She also is pleased to be showing her work at […]

Maine Seacoast Paintings at Pemaquid Art Gallery

Stephen Busch and Kay Sawyer Hannah are two member artists at the Pemaquid Art Gallery who have been strongly influenced by the seacoast environment. Stephen Busch was raised in a family rich in art and a connection to the sea and sailing. He learned to sail as a teenager and later graduated from the Maritime […]

ZOEY FRANK’S COMPELLING NEW WORK SHOWCASED AT HAYNES GALLERIES

One of the brightest young artists in Contemporary Realism is returning to Haynes Galleries to showcase her newest works. Zoey Frank’s compelling new paintings will be on view from August 19 to September 24 in Thomaston, Maine in “Zoey Frank: Connections & Changes.” An opening reception with food and drink to celebrate Frank’s new show will […]