Category: Announcement
Local Color Gallery introduces guest and three new full-time artists on Fourth Friday
Local Color Gallery hosted a Fourth Friday Art Walk reception on May 24 featuring Van Bankston, the new guest artist, and three new full-time artists, Susan Smith, Shelley Breton and Ruth Heffron. Bankston’s bold colors and non-representational geometric pieces are on view at the gallery for three months beginning May 21. “This series of paintings […]
Maine Crafts Association & Shop Maine Craft announce new board president
Lawrence Hollins is the new president of the board of directors of the Maine Crafts Association & Shop Maine Craft. Hollin is the associate publisher at Down East Enterprise, where he manages Down East Magazine and all its ancillary products, including its retail shop, adventure trips and custom publishing solutions. Hollins joined the board of […]
UMVA President’s notes, Spring Maine Art Journal
If you want to understand how artists think and get a sense of what’s going on in Maine art, click here http://maineartsjournal.com/ to see the exciting new spring issue of the Maine Arts Journal, published by the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). Feast your eyes and mind on the extraordinary breadth and depth […]
Charles H. Woodbury and the 1932 Solar Eclipse, plus Barn Gallery’s 2024 season schedule
By Eric Taubert The summer of 1932 cast a unique light on the quaint coastal town of Ogunquit. Anticipation crackled in the air, a buzz unlike the usual rhythm of crashing waves and creaking lobster traps. This wasn’t a season for tourists seeking lazy afternoons on the beach; this was a pilgrimage for an astronomical […]
Turtle Gallery reopens for season on May 30
Turtle Gallery will open May 30 for its 42nd season on Deer Isle. Shows will feature artist educators with a group show in June, works on paper in July, painters of Maine in August and a focus on the textiles and texture of craft and fine art in September. Regional artists will grace the walls […]
Mari Dieumegard’s narrative work kicks off Gallery 302’s Guest Artist Series, and Stephen Carpenter joins the gallery as an exhibiting artist
Gallery 302 welcomes Mari Dieumegard as the first artist to be featured in its Guest Artist series for 2024. Her exhibit of narrative paintings will run from May 4 to June 7 with an opening reception with the artist from 5 to 7 p.m. May 10. Dieumegard was born and raised in Alaska, attended the […]
Studio Art Moving Sale
Ann Tracy will host a Studio Art Moving sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 11 at the studio above the garage at 8 Pine Brae Lane in Rockport. Most pieces will be 50% off. Prints, photography, digital art, paintings, mixed-media pieces and other work will be available. Tracy is leaving the hills of […]
Local Color Gallery welcomes three new artists and will present a workshop during Print Day in May
Three new year-round artists joined Local Color Gallery in Belfast on April 23. A reception and open house was held o April 26 with artist talks. Ruth Heffron, of Belfast, works primarily in oil, often with cold wax added. She enjoys collage and printmaking as well. She views her paintings as poems that shine a […]
Student/teacher art show, plus upcoming classes at the Maine Art Gallery
Parents, teachers and children poured into the Maine Art Gallery, aka MAG, in Wiscasset for the opening of the K-12 student art show on April 12. For the first time in the years that the annual exhibit has opened the MAG season, students presented their work alongside that of their teachers. As grades 7-12 art […]
Andrea Holland is New UMVA Treasurer
Andrea Holland, accounting manager for Lyman Morse Boatbuilding, Inc., has been named Treasurer of the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). She replaces John Patrick Mullen who stepped down for health reasons. Andrea, a Belfast native, brings 17 years’ of experience at Lyman Morse and over a decade in the business before that. She has […]
