Category: Art Talk
Talk with Photographer Jocelyn Lee and Former ICP Curator Edward Earle at CMCA
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) invites the public to a Tuesday Talk with photographer Jocelyn Lee in conversation with Edward Earle, former Curator of Collections at the International Center of Photography, NYC, on Tuesday, August 21, at 5:30pm in the CMCA galleries at 21 Winter Street, Rockland, Maine. Lee and Earle will discuss […]
Colin Page at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art will host a Gallery Talk for Colin Page on Wednesday, August 1 at 5:30pm. The talk will be held in conjunction with a solo show of Page’s new work. The shows runs through August 12. The event is free and open to the public. Colin Page is an en plein air […]
Courthouse Gallery to host Book Launch for Willaim Irvine: At Home
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art is pleased to host the Book Launch for William Irvine: At Home (Marshall Wilkes), a new book highlighting a collection of Irvine’s small white house narrative paintings. The Book Launch will take place on Wednesday, July 25, from 4pm–6:30pm. The event will be held in conjunction with a solo show of Irvine’s new work that runs through August 12. The event is free […]
Painting The Fynbos | Lynne and John M.T. Seitzer
What is the Fynbos (fayne-boss)? It is the smallest floral kingdom in the world. The Southern tip of Africa is its home. From a distance this dry land appears quite unimpressive. The colors seem drab and lifeless. Upon closer inspection its true beauty is revealed. Over 9000 indigenous species hail from this area which is […]
Farnsworth Presents Wyeth Day Lecture: Christina’s World at 70
On Thursday, July 12, at 2 p.m., the Farnsworth Art Museum will present the annual Wyeth Day program at the Strand Theatre at 345 Main Street in Rockland. Entitled Christina’s World at 70, the discussion, moderated by Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky, will include author Christina Baker Kline, scholar Henry Adams and watercolorist and […]
Courthouse Gallery to host Book & Signing Launch for Philip Frey: Here and Now by Daniel Kany and Carl Little
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art is pleased to host the Book Launch for Philip Frey: Here and Now (Marshall Wilkes), a new book by Daniel Kany and Carl Little on the work of Maine artist Philip Frey. The event will take place on Saturday, July 7, from 4pm–6:30pm. The event will be held in conjunction with a solo show of Frey’s recent work. There will be a talk with […]
Fiber Artist Sarah Haskell’s project, “Well Used, Well Loved,” currently on view
York fiber artist Sarah Haskell project, “Well Used, Well Loved,” is currently on view at George Marshall Store Gallery. Sarah will explained how this community based art project came about in a talk last week. It involved forty-six households across the country over a two year period. Participants “adopted” a hand-woven towel and made the commitment […]
Lecture at the Farnsworth Poems, Painters and Patriots: N.C. Wyeth’s Poems of American Patriotism
On Wednesday, June 20, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine will present the opening lecture for the exhibition N.C. Wyeth: Poems of American Patriotism. The lecture by Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael Komanecky is the museum’s first Stephen May and Kathryn B. Wilson Lecture and will take place in the museum’s auditorium at 2 p.m. […]
Randy Eckard Solo Exhibition
Time permitting, stop in Richard Boyd Art Gallery June 1 at 10:00 a.m. for the opening of a solo exhibition of paintings by noted watercolorist Randy Eckard, with a meet the artist reception to follow on the 2nd. A trained commercial and fine artist living in Blue Hill, Maine Randy’s career as a fine artist […]
Thelma Golden, visionary arts leader, comes to Portland as part of the PMA’s Bernard Osher Lecture series
The Portland Museum of Art is honored to announce that Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, is the museum’s guest speaker for the 2018 Bernard Osher Lecture on Tuesday, July 9, at the University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Hall. Tickets go on sale May 24. With a vision set […]
