Category: Announcement
Mars Hall Gallery opens 2026 season in Martinsville
Mars Hall Gallery in Martinsville opened its 2026 season over Memorial Day weekend as part of the annual St. George community event “Sails into the Season,” with the gallery open May 22 to 24 and by appointment on Memorial Day. The gallery presents an eclectic mix of works across mediums. Watercolorists include Leo Brooks, Nat […]
UMVA opens two spring shows and call for art for Dreaming at Dawn
The Union of Maine Visual Artists opened two spring exhibitions in May in Harpswell. “Celebrating Hope” launched with a well-attended opening reception during Portland’s first art walk of the season. “It’s the Small Things” opened the same week at the Jean Picker Gallery at Camden Public Library, with a reception held May 9. Thanks were […]
Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates seven years in Portland
Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland’s Black-owned, Black-led, and Black- and Brown-centered arts and culture nonprofit — the first of its kind in Maine — is marking its seventh anniversary this month. Since opening in 2019, the organization has embodied a multiracial approach to the intersections of citizenship, community-building and creativity. Founded by co-founders Daniel and Marcia […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery Opens 2026 Season with Solo Exhibitions by Artists Lauren Fensterstock and Jacob Bond Hessle
Dowling Walsh Gallery Opens 2026 Season with Solo Exhibitions by Artists Lauren Fensterstock and Jacob Bond Hessler
Indigo Arts Alliance announces new leadership and launches ‘Indigo Experiences’
Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland held its seventh annual Spring is in the AiR fundraiser earlier this month, using the occasion to announce new leadership and a new initiative supporting the organization’s artist residency programs. The organization named Mia Bogyo as its new deputy director. Bogyo joins Indigo Arts Alliance after six years as director […]
Art Space Gallery in Rockland honors late member John Wood this May
Art Space Gallery in Rockland opens its May season with a tribute exhibition of watercolor and oil paintings by the late John Wood, on view throughout the month in the gallery’s Front Room. A reception celebrating Wood’s life and artistic legacy will be held during the First Friday Art Walk on May 1 from 4 […]
George Marshall Store Gallery wraps ‘Block Party!’ and prepares for summer season
“Block Party!” — a group show featuring recent works by 41 local artists in a wide variety of mediums — closed April 18 at George Marshall Store Gallery in York. Works from the show remain available to browse and purchase online at georgemarshallstoregallery.com. The gallery is open by appointment only April 19 through May 29 […]
North Carolina painter Tony Griffin in residence at DIAA Gallery in Deer Isle
The Deer Isle Artists Association gallery welcomes North Carolina-based painter Tony Griffin as artist-in-residence for April. Griffin’s work — deeply rooted in the tradition of the Renaissance masters — spans portraiture, figure painting and plein air landscape. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has exhibited throughout North Carolina […]
Nicoletta Siccone is the Artist-in-Residence at Deer Isle Artists Association in March
Nicoletta Siccone, artist and art educator, will serve as the March Artist-in-Residence at the Deer Isle Artists Association. Siccone is a multifaceted artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, jewelry and glass, and she regularly exhibits her zipper jewelry, gyotaku and sumi-e at the association’s gallery. During her residency, Siccone will explore color through the creation […]
MMPA has a new home
The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts has a new home in Portland. You did it! Your donations and support helped us acquire our new space! This isn’t the end of our capital campaign or construction needs, but we’ve jumped the largest hurdle and we have new keys thanks to you! Now we can start planning […]