Category: Announcement

Joan Losee’s Farms and Landscapes at Local Color Gallery

Camden artist Joan Losee will be the Guest Artist this May at Local Color Gallery in Belfast. Her work the past two years has been focused on the farms and landscapes of inland Maine. The experience of visiting these locations and putting them into oil paintings has broadened her knowledge of Maine and beauty found in […]

Open call for Mount Desert Island Open

Calling all artists to submit work for this year’s Mount Desert Island Open. Be part of a non-juried art exposition in its 21st consecutive year at Shaw Jewelry in Northeast Harbor. All artists are invited to participate. Criteria for inclusion: a close association with Mount Desert Island and an item you would like to share […]

2021 MCA Guild Fine Craft Shows announces dates and locations

  Beginning in 2020, the Maine Crafts Association and the Maine Crafts Guild joined together as one Maine craft organization offering all the programs, events and initiatives previously offered by each separate organization, including the four fine craft shows previously managed by the Maine Crafts Guild. The shows feature fine craft artist exhibitors who are […]

Spring arrives at the Eastport Gallery

The Eastport Gallery will open for the season on June 5, but you don’t have to wait until June to visit the virtual Spring Show, open now online featuring over 60 works by 16 member artists.   Visit the online gallery at www.eastportgallery.com. Eastport Gallery has continued its Artist to Artist Video Series. Recent episodes […]

Kerry Hadley named gallery manager at the Maine Art Gallery

The board of trustees of the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset is pleased to announce that Kerry Hadley has stepped into the position of gallery manager. Hadley brings to the gallery a depth of strategic and organizational management experience that is well suited to a nonprofit gallery. As manager of the Camden Opera House for […]

Saltwater Artists Gallery welcomes new artists

The Saltwater Artists Gallery in New Harbor is excited to welcome three new artists: Valerie Thomas, Sylvia Lockhart and Mark Malinowski. Their work can be viewed when the Gallery opens on May 28. Saltwater Artists Gallery is at 3056 Bristol Road (Rt. 130) in New Harbor, a short distance before the Pemaquid Lighthouse. More views […]

Dowling Walsh Gallery hosts exhibitions + book release in May

  During May, Dowling Walsh Gallery will host a solo exhibition by Aaron T Stephan; a window installation and book release of “Blue Violets,” by Cig Harvey; and a group exhibition titled “Mud Season.” “Aaron T Stephan: Untitled Monuments” runs May 7 to 29. Stephan is an artist living and working in Portland. His work […]

Online Art Auction will benefit the Maine Art Gallery

  The Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset has gathered a number of noteworthy, yet affordable, works of art for an online auction that is open for bidding from May 1 to June 15. The pieces, donated by artists and collectors, offer the buyer an opportunity to obtain fine art while helping to support the nonprofit […]

’S.B. Walker: Nor’east’ to open May 29 at CMCA in Rockland

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) will present the exhibition “S.B. Walker: Nor’east” beginning May 29 and continuing through Sept. 12. Included in the exhibition are more than 50 images from the photographer’s six-year journey documenting contemporary life in Maine. Beginning in early 2014, S.B. (Sam) Walker traveled more than 100,000 miles throughout the […]

Mother’s Day sale at MCA Retail Gallery 

As we approach Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year, we have much to reflect on. The Maine Crafts Association has missed the familiar faces of its patrons and members as people locked down and changed their lives to become teachers, caregivers and more during the pandemic. Many of you have been the glue holding […]