Category: Art Talk
Tucker Nichols to Lecture at CMCA
Each year the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) presents a lecture by one of today’s most distinguished and entertaining voices in contemporary art. This year’s lecturer is artist Tucker Nichols. His lecture, entitled “I Don’t Know How Else To Say This,” will take place at 6:00 pm on Sunday, August 14 at CMCA on 21 Winter Street in Rockland. Tickets are $8 for CMCA members, […]
New Era Gallery in Vinalhaven opens mid-summer show
New Era Gallery in Vinalhaven will open our mid-summer show on Saturday, July 16, featuring work by Andrew Anderson-Bell, Charlotte Nekola, Adam Osgood, and Cristy West. A panel discussion with the artists will be held in the Windy Way Barn at 4:30, with an opening reception from 5:00 – 7:00. Andrew Anderson-Bell’s love of […]
Jon Fernans Sculpture Demonstrations at Little Pond Gallery
Jon Fernans Sculpture Demonstrations July 23 and August 14 11:00 – 3:00 at Little Pond Gallery, 23 Shoreline Dr. Orr’s Island Jon Fernans, noted stone sculptor and teacher, will be demonstrating his modern techniques of stone sculpture at the Little Pond Gallery on Orr’s Island on July 23 and August 14 from 11:00 – 3:00. Jon will […]
PMA presents Innovators and Entrepreneurs: A Women in Business Forum
Thursday, July 28 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free for members and employees of Corporate members; $8 general public Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium Influential women have shaped the city of Portland throughout its history. In 1908, author and critic Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat forever transformed the PMA with her bequest of the McLellan House and […]
New Era Gallery Early Summer Show
New Era Gallery in Vinalhaven will open our fifteenth annual Early Summer show on Saturday, June 25, featuring work by metalsmith and jeweler Cat Bates, fiber artist Kathleen Bird, painter Kate Hannan, and photographer Joan Wright. The Windy Way Barn will concurrently feature the work of Vinalhaven/Budapest artist George Bartko. Bartko began his art studies […]
Artists and Naturalists at Acadia’ Launches MDI Biological Laboratory’s Art Meets Science Café Series
The MDI Biological Laboratory will kick off its 2016 series of Art Meets Science Cafés on Monday, June 20, at 5 p.m. with a presentation entitled “A History of Scientists and Artists Working Together in Acadia” by Catherine Schmitt, an environmental scientist and author. Schmitt’s presentation is an ideal choice for the first of […]
Icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church at Liros Gallery
An icon is a sacred image of The Eastern Orthodox Church painted on wood in tempera by monks in monasteries. Most Russian icons are painted on wood in egg tempera, although by the end of the nineteen century oils started to predominate. Gold leaf is often used for halos or background. Sometimes a silver […]
MFT Gallery’s exhibits “The Wild Things”
Weeds and Wilderness star in MFT Gallery’s exhibit “The Wild Things” Belfast. For more than ten years John Arden Knight has been painting weeds – the very thing most of us rip out of the ground without a second thought. Knight, who resides in Portland, is attracted to plants that escape the confines of […]
Courthouse Gallery Artist’s Talk with Jessica Lee Ives
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth will host an Artist’s Talk for Jessica Lee Ives on Friday May 27 at 4pm. Ives will speak about her work and how the following philosophies influence her personal and artistic life: kinesthetic intelligence and imagination, mirror neurons firing in the brain, and the healing properties of water. The […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery shows Connie Hayes
Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland with show Connie Hayes, “Civita Castellana, Italy” June 3 – 25, 2016 with an opening reception Friday, June 3 from 5-8pm. Hayes will give an artist talk and slide show at 2:00pm Thursday, June 9 at the Strand Theater in Rockland titled “What is Ambition Related to a Painting […]
