Category: Announcement
Beloved Art Box vending machine moves from Blue Hill to Waterfall Arts in Belfast
The Art Box — a beloved vintage vending machine stocked with original small-format artwork by local artists — has found a new home at Waterfall Arts in Belfast after more than a decade on the Blue Hill peninsula. The project was founded by Michele Levesque, who was inspired by Art-O-Mat machines she encountered around the […]
Three Maine art institutions to host ninth biennial AHAA Symposium in September
The Portland Museum of Art, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick will jointly host the Ninth Biennial Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) Symposium, Sept. 24 to 26. It is the first time the symposium — held biennially since 2010 — will take […]
Mars Hall Gallery opens 2026 season in Martinsville
Mars Hall Gallery in Martinsville opened its 2026 season over Memorial Day weekend as part of the annual St. George community event “Sails into the Season,” with the gallery open May 22 to 24 and by appointment on Memorial Day. The gallery presents an eclectic mix of works across mediums. Watercolorists include Leo Brooks, Nat […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery Opens 2026 Season with Solo Exhibitions by Artists Lauren Fensterstock and Jacob Bond Hessle
Dowling Walsh Gallery Opens 2026 Season with Solo Exhibitions by Artists Lauren Fensterstock and Jacob Bond Hessler
Indigo Arts Alliance announces new leadership and launches ‘Indigo Experiences’
Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland held its seventh annual Spring is in the AiR fundraiser earlier this month, using the occasion to announce new leadership and a new initiative supporting the organization’s artist residency programs. The organization named Mia Bogyo as its new deputy director. Bogyo joins Indigo Arts Alliance after six years as director […]
Art Space Gallery in Rockland honors late member John Wood this May
Art Space Gallery in Rockland opens its May season with a tribute exhibition of watercolor and oil paintings by the late John Wood, on view throughout the month in the gallery’s Front Room. A reception celebrating Wood’s life and artistic legacy will be held during the First Friday Art Walk on May 1 from 4 […]
George Marshall Store Gallery wraps ‘Block Party!’ and prepares for summer season
“Block Party!” — a group show featuring recent works by 41 local artists in a wide variety of mediums — closed April 18 at George Marshall Store Gallery in York. Works from the show remain available to browse and purchase online at georgemarshallstoregallery.com. The gallery is open by appointment only April 19 through May 29 […]
North Carolina painter Tony Griffin in residence at DIAA Gallery in Deer Isle
The Deer Isle Artists Association gallery welcomes North Carolina-based painter Tony Griffin as artist-in-residence for April. Griffin’s work — deeply rooted in the tradition of the Renaissance masters — spans portraiture, figure painting and plein air landscape. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has exhibited throughout North Carolina […]
