Local Color Gallery welcomes new guest artist and ekphrastic poets

Local Color Gallery in Belfast held an evening of art and poetry for its first Fourth Friday event of 2025 on Feb. 28. Sumner Roberts, local woodcut artist, presents a show at the gallery beginning that continues through March 22. A farmer and farrier for many years, Roberts says, “I finally held on to the […]

‘Take A Risk + Works On Paper’ at the Kittery Art Association

“Take A Risk + Works On Paper” includes daring and experimental works of art, many of which are on paper, where boundaries are pushed of this delicate medium. From bold sketches and intricate prints to innovative mixed media compositions, this exhibition highlights the courage and creativity to explore new techniques and ideas. This kind of […]

Jean Kigel Studio features watercolors

Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery, 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro, is featuring winter watercolors. Kigel finds endless inspiration and surprising patches of color in this season’s landscapes. Bundle up to visit her gallery, and warm up by the woodstove with cookies and tea. Gallery open daily during business hours. Call first recommended at 207-832-5152. […]

Local gallery supports New Hope Midcoast

The holiday season brought the joy of giving to the artists at Local Color Gallery in Belfast. Several of the artists created holiday ornaments ranging from “paint-brush angels” to “dangling print animals.” Anyone who stopped in the gallery and donated $50 for New Hope Midcoast during the holiday season received a hand-made ornament as a […]

Gallery 302 Calling all Pastel Artists

Calling all Pastel Artists: “Figures in Pastels – A live-model workshop for Experienced Artists” Join award-winning painter Terri Brooks for Figures in Pastels, a workshop designed for experienced pastel artists. Working from a live, costumed model, participants will refine their ability to capture the human form using layered pastel techniques. The class will focus on essential life-drawing skills, using […]

Help Annex Arts Artists Residency program grow

  Dear Friend of Annex Arts, This past summer, as an experiment, we packed the Water Street studios and apartments with visiting artists all summer long. The results were magnificent, and the effects wide ranging. We felt the impact on the artists and our community immediately, and we want to make this our approach going […]

Deer Isle Artists Association will resume its Art Matters program

Beginning in January, the Deer Isle Artists Association will resume its Art Matters program that abruptly ended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Art Matters 6 will include three programs in the new year, which will be held on the first Sunday afternoons of January, February and March. Presentations by various DIAA Gallery artists […]

Centre Street Arts Gallery welcomes Kat Logan to the gallery

Centre Street Arts Gallery will host a “Ring in 2025” reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 24 and will welcome its newest artist, Kat Logan, who is new to the gallery but not new to the art and music world. Logan has received a Grammy nomination and is an accomplished painter who offers drawing […]

Cynthia Winings Gallery creates winter solstice mandala

Cynthia Winings Gallery wishes everyone a happy winter solstice and a celebration of the timeless rhythms of nature. The annual winter solstice mandala was created again in 2024 in the gallery’s Sculpture Garden. “I had planned to light a fire in the center of my winter circle, even before knowing snow would arrive the night […]

‘Networks of Modernism’ exhibition to travel to the UNH Art Gallery in January

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art announces that the exhibition “Networks of Modernism: 1898-1968” will travel to the University of New Hampshire’s Art Gallery where it will be on view Jan. 14 through March 16. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works from OMAA’s collection to tell a story of the artistic networks that […]