‘Eternity in an Hour’ virtual exhibit by Caldbeck Gallery

Caldbeck Gallery presents new work by Elizabth Awalt and Elizabeth O’Reilly in the virtual exhibit “Eternity in an Hour.” Both artists offer imagery that provides refuge from the weather, the pandemic, and all the other things keeping us home this winter. View the show online at https://mcusercontent.com/c6bdac10295726afaab4a2246/files/8dc3ca64-c721-4fb5-afb9-abba687a50b0/Awalt_OReilly_2021_ecatalog.pdf. Caldbeck Gallery is at 12 Elm St., Rockland. […]

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art shows ‘New Beginnings’

Ellsworth Courthouse Gallery Fine Art presents “New Beginnings,” a mid-winter online show highlighting new work by 12 artists. The show is a precursor to the gallery’s upcoming summer exhibitions. A range of media is highlighted, including collage on canvas, digital montage, oil on canvas, sculptures from stainless steel or reclaimed wood and found objects, and […]

Waldoboro’s Back Cove Gallery presents Jean Kigel’s ‘The Year of the Ox’ exhibition

Jean Kigel’s new Back Cove Gallery opens with a show of Asian brush paintings titled “The Year of the Ox.” This exhibit will take place online and at the gallery, located at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro, throughout March. Over the past decades, Kigel’s Asian brush paintings have received an overwhelming response both locally […]

Archipelago Artist Profile: Basil Cake

By Lisa Millette Part of our ongoing series of Archipelago artist profiles, this profile looks at one of Archipelago’s artists, Basil Cake, who has been featured in the store and gallery since it opened. In early March, before Governor Mills issued a statewide lockdown, the Island Institute’s Lisa Millette traveled to the home of Maine […]

Maine Farmland Trust Gallery presents the 2020 Fiore Residents Exhibit

  This past summer, Maine Farmland Trust’s Fiore Art Center offered four virtual residencies. Instead of working at the beautiful Rolling Acres Farm at the Fiore Art Center in Jefferson, ME, the residents worked from their homes, farms, gardens and studios. From January 5-April 9, 2021, the Maine Farmland Trust Gallery website will host an […]

Maine artists included in international Telephone project

More than 950 artists from across the world are creating original, interconnected artworks in a global game of Telephone. The online, interactive exhibition is scheduled to launch in April, and several Maine artists will participate. On its surface, Telephone is simple. Based on the children’s game, a message is “whispered” from art form to art […]

‘In the Abstract’ at Dowling Walsh Gallery

Dowling Walsh Gallery is hosting the group exhibition “In the Abstract” through Feb. 27. The exhibit includes works by Ann Purcell, Stephen Pace (1918-2010), Syd Solomon (1917-2004) and Kenneth Noland (1924-2010). Visit www.dowlingwalsh.com or call 207-596-0084 for more information.

New issue of MMPA Antidote now available online

In response to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and local closings, the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland began creating the online series MMPA Antidote, which includes photographic artwork, audio interviews, and artist statements and reflections from Maine artists, aimed to serve as inspiration during times of isolation. Published bi-weekly, Antidote features contemporary photographers and interviews […]

Maine Art Gallery seeks gallery manager

Encouraged by the arrival of Covid vaccines, the Maine Art Gallery (MAG) plans to reopen its Wiscasset gallery in May with a schedule of exhibits that will run through October. To assist in the operation of the nonprofit gallery, the MAG board of trustees has announced an opening for gallery manager. The part-time, year-round position […]

Michele Ratté’s art evokes a primordial connection to the earth and sea

Artist Michele Ratté has recently relocated to Belfast from Vermont and is being featured as a guest artist at Local Color Gallery.  Ratté’s work is informed by a lifelong fascination with marine environments, both current and ancient. She uses geological and botanical references, and the direct experience of being and working in seaside locations, including […]