Category: Announcement
Holiday notecards available from Pemaquid Group of Artists
With the holidays just around the corner and gift lists growing, The Pemaquid Group of Artists suggests considering boxed sets of artist notecards. The card assortments offer beautiful glimpses of mid-coast Maine and make excellent gifts and remembrances. There are two sets of notecards and each consists of a box of 10 assorted full color […]
Archipelago says thank you
What a year! We all had big plans for the year, right? Archipelago hoped to celebrate our 20th anniversary with you in person with a big party full of good food, laughter, mingling, and fun. While that didn’t happen, this year continues to remind all of us about what is most important in our lives […]
Watch artists work each Friday in December at Markings Gallery
Markings Gallery, at 50 Front St. in Bath, is excited to see their holiday windows come to life this December. Join Emi Ito, fiber artist, at her loom and Wayne Robbins, woodcarver, at his carving bench as they create art on Fridays in December from 4 to 6 p.m. More information about these artists is […]
Painting by Damariscotta’s Kathleen Horst to be featured on HGTV
Watercolorist Kathleen Horst, of Damariscotta, was approached this past summer to paint a portrait of a newly renovated historic home, and that portrait will be featured on HGTV’s new series “Life Under Renovation.” Horst is known for these portraits. She is frequently asked to paint portraits of homes in midcoast Maine, as well as iconic […]
Autumn news from Heidi Daub of Daub Studio
During these strange and unprecedented days, everything feels on edge. At times overwhelmed with world news and extraordinary challenges facing family and friends, the very act of painting, for me, has served as a lifeline. The root influences informing my paintings, namely the ingenious cycles of the natural world and our relationship within it, remain […]
Green Lion Gallery online exhibition ‘Ten Miles Out’
Green Lion Gallery is proud to announce its latest online exhibition, “Ten Miles Out,” photomontages by Lilian Day Thorpe. Lilian, a talented, imaginative and accomplished photomontage artist spent some of her summer on the Maine coast where she partly grew up. Based on that experience, she’s been working on a fascinating series of images that […]
Archipelago prepares for holiday fun
Archipelago will be taking some time over the next few weeks to slow down a bit and dream up some fun surprises for the upcoming holiday season. So even though you may not see our notes in your inbox, know that the store is open, the website is open, and we’re busy crafting a plan […]
Maine artist Reggie Burrows Hodges receives national grant
Dowling Walsh artist Reggie Burrows Hodges received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant. The Maine-based painter’s works explore storytelling and visual metaphor. His large-scale paintings — rendered in acrylic and pastel on raw canvas — explore universal subjects, such as identity, community, truth and memory and often draw inspiration from his childhood in […]
CMCA appoints new executive director and chief curator
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) recently announced the appointment of Timothy Peterson as the museum’s next executive director and chief curator, effective Jan. 18, 2021. Peterson will succeed Suzette McAvoy, who will retire at the end of December after more than 10 years at the helm of CMCA. “We are confident that Tim […]
Patti Leavitt and Barbara Applegate: romantic realism enjoyed
This summer season’s final profile discussing the work of artist members of the Pemaquid Art Gallery looks at two highly accomplished, masterful Bristol artists who could both be called romantic realists but have a surprisingly different feeling to their painting. Patti Leavitt and Barbara Applegate are experienced, well-known painters who use different mediums — Leavitt exclusively […]
