Category: Art Talk

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 […]

Waterfall Arts Summer Classes + Workshops

Waterfall Arts has greatly expanded the number of summer classes and workshops for adults and teens age 15 and up. Large Woodcut Printmaking, Ceramics, Photoshop for Artists, Painting, Nature Drawing, Eco Printing, Stained Glass, Cyanotypes, Torchwork, Personal Writing, Raku, Darkroom Basics, Sequencing and more are on the schedule. Listed below are workshops and classes that […]