Category: Announcement
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 […]
Maine Art Gallery offers classes to inspire, educate and hone creative skills
With just a few months left before Maine’s busy summer season of houseguests, travel and work around the house, it’s a good time to plan ahead and schedule activities to enrich our personal lives. With this in mind, the Maine Art Gallery has created a lineup of inspiring half-day classes for artists, would-be artists and […]
New book ‘The Prints of Siri Beckman’ features work by Maine engraver and woodcut artist
“The Prints of Siri Beckman: Engraving a Sense of Place” was recently published by Down East Books, now a part of Rowman and Littlefield. Carl Little has written the introduction. The book contains prints of more than 100 wood engravings and woodcuts and costs $39.95. To order a signed copy of the book, email [email protected]. […]
UMVA Midcoast update
Twenty members showed up at the March 9 UMVA member meeting at the Camden Public Library, where they decided they’d meet bi-monthly, alternating between Belfast Free Library and Camden Public Library. When inclement weather precludes meeting in person, they meet via Zoom. There are several shows on the books for UMVA members beginning in July. […]
Saltwater Artists Gallery adds five new member artists
Saltwater Artists Gallery announces the addition of five new member artists for the 2124 season: painters Ericka O’rourke (oil), J.C. Airnoldi (oil), Barbara Coburn (egg tempera and watercolor) and Rachel Bubier (acrylic) and potter Stephanie Haynes (Wishbone Clay). The gallery is located at 3056 Bristol Road, New Harbor, and will open on May 24. Hours […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery presents “Jacob Bond Hessler: Sancuary”
Dowling Walsh Gallery invites the public to an Opening Reception for “Jacob Bond Hessler: Sancuary” on March 1, from 4 to 6 pm. “The modern world has sped our lives up for the sake of convenience but the sacrifices have been great. Our ancestors spent huge portions of their waking lives outside convening with and […]
