Category: Announcement

Support and Get Involved in The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

Consider supporting the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts by visiting mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org.  MMPA, in Portland is passionate about photography and wants to make more opportunities available to inspire, exhibit, make and talk about contemporary photography, history, theory, and criticism in the state of Maine.  MMPA is interested in ideas and where photographers take them. MMPA does […]

Brick Store Museum show through Nov. 17

The Brick Store in Kennebunk is showing the work of Susan Barrett Merrill and Rosalind Fedeli for Homecoming, through Nov. 17.  

Jane Dahmen “Talking Art in Maine” with Michel Droge

Join host and artist Jane Dahmen in conversation with Portland Art Gallery artist Michel Droge Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7-8:30 at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta. Talking Art in Maine with host Jane Dahmen Michel is a painter, printmaker and educator whose work engages with the environment and the human condition.  Extensive scientific research is behind all the […]

Sohns Gallery reception for “Summer J. Hart: unwritten”

Trained in book arts and printmaking, Summer J. Hart received a BFA from the Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT, and an MFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Influenced by repetitive organic geometries, scenes viewed through knotholes, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature, she creates environments out of cut paper: using both shadows and […]

Archipelago Offers Tips and Tools for Artists and Makers

Archipelago is encouraging you to take this seasonal transition to refresh on resources from the 2019 Artists and Makers Conference, as well as a recent Artisans Who Wholesale podcast featuring Archipelago Director Lisa Mossel Vietze on the “Do’s and Don’ts from a Seasoned Buyer and Artist.” Take some time to look at and listen to […]

Apply by December 10th for the Craft Apprentice Program 2020

The Maine Craft Association’s Craft Apprentice Program (CAP) offers Maine-based master craft artists and apprentices the opportunity to learn, create, and connect.  Applications will be accepted online through December 10th. The Craft Apprenticeship Program is presented through a partnership with the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Craft Association. It provides a seven-month customized educational […]

Community Tapestry Debuts at Wiscasset Community Center

During the Wiscasset Art Walk 2019 season, locals and visitors from away – from far away – took part in a community weaving project.  The result of that project, a wall-sized woven tapestry, is now on view at the Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Rd. You can’t miss it. As you walk in the door, […]

Ashley Bryan’s Memoir “Infinite Hope” Available October 15

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan For four decades, Newbery Honoree and Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ashley Bryan kept his military experiences in World War II a secret. The author and illustrator of children’s books such as Freedom over Me and  Can’t […]

Tidemark Gallery Celebrates Fourteenth Birthday

It’s a party, from 4 to 7 on Saturday, October 12, at Tidemark in Waldoboro featuring guest artist (back by popular demand) André Benoit. The humor and whimsy of his dimensional wooden sculptural assemblages are built upon a depth of serious art-making knowledge and skills.

October ArtLab for All Ages at CMCA

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) invites artists of all ages to try their hand at monotype printmaking in this month’s ArtLab for All Ages workshop on Saturday, October 5, from 2 to 4pm. Join us to explore the endless and expressive possibilities of the painted monotype. Working from a variety of still images […]