Category: Announcement
The Ogunquit Art Association’s 72nd Annual Art Auction
The Ogunquit Art Association will hold its 72nd Annual Art Auction on Saturday, August 1, 2026, at Barn Gallery, continuing a tradition that stretches back for many decades and remains the largest annual art auction in Ogunquit. Collectors and art enthusiasts from across the Eastern Seaboard travel to Ogunquit each summer for this event, where […]
Maine Art Gallery classes inspire creativity
Summer is the perfect time to pull out the paints and pencils, and even tissue and glue for experimentation or to develop one’s creative talents. Upcoming classes at the Maine Art Gallery offer three opportunities to expand your abilities. In “Charcoal and Line: Drawing the Landscape,” both intermediate beginners and those with more advanced […]
Colby College Museum of Art announces gift of Henri Matisse’s Océanie, le ciel,
The Colby College Museum of Art is pleased to announce the gift of Henri Matisse’s Océanie, le ciel, a monumental screenprint on linen conceived in 1946 and printed in 1948. The significant acquisition reinforces Colby’s position as a leading academic art museum and adds to Maine’s growing profile as a major destination for American and […]
CMCA welcomes Rori Smith and announces July education programs in Rockland
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland has named Rori Smith as its new director of education. Smith brings nearly two decades of experience as an educator, scholar and artist, having worked with institutions including the Penn Museum, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of the American Indian and […]
Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland will host a series of July public programs alongside its summer artist residency programming.
Alison Croney Moses and Alisha B. Wormsley joined Indigo Arts Alliance July 6 and will be in residence through Aug. 6 as part of the organization’s Mentorship Residency Program. Moses is a Boston-based artist working primarily in wood. Her work explores themes of family, relationships, pregnancy, childbirth, safety and care, investigating private and personal life […]
Kittery Art Association awards scholarships to Traip Academy graduates
The Kittery Art Association recently awarded Marcia Abigail Ryder Art Scholarships to three 2026 Traip Academy graduates: Hannah Rowan, Abby Painchaud and Xuka Tran. Hannah will attend Northeastern University, and Abby has been accepted to the University of Southern Maine. Xuka is taking a travel year to Vietnam, where she will intern at an art […]
Turtle Gallery presents new work by three artists
The Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle presents new work by Janis Goodman, Mary Barnes and Katherine Hackl, three artists whose practices reflect deep engagement with nature, movement and material. Goodman, professor emerita at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, presents new paintings shaped by decades of close observation on Deer Isle’s Greenlaw Cove. […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery highlights Jamie Wyeth’s ‘Kleberg: Sunrise, Monhegan’
Rockland’s Dowling Walsh Gallery highlighted Jamie Wyeth’s “Kleberg: Sunrise, Monhegan,” a 2024 work in watercolor, acrylic, charcoal and gouache on toned board. Kleberg was a beloved yellow Labrador retriever owned by Wyeth and his wife, Phyllis. Gifted to the Wyeths by Robert Kleberg of Texas’s King Ranch, the dog inspired a celebrated series of artworks […]
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 […]