Category: Belfast
Beloved Art Box vending machine moves from Blue Hill to Waterfall Arts in Belfast
The Art Box — a beloved vintage vending machine stocked with original small-format artwork by local artists — has found a new home at Waterfall Arts in Belfast after more than a decade on the Blue Hill peninsula. The project was founded by Michele Levesque, who was inspired by Art-O-Mat machines she encountered around the […]
Transmissions quilts exhibition comes to Belfast with workshops and open mic
Waterfall Arts in Belfast will host “Transmissions Quilts: Home & Away,” a weeklong exhibition of quilts, poetry, oral histories and interdisciplinary works, June 5 to 12. Presented in collaboration with Trans Poetics Archive, Out in the Open and the Belfast Poetry Festival, the exhibition and all accompanying events are free and open to the public. […]
Waterfall Arts presents interactive street art exhibition in Belfast
Waterfall Arts in Belfast is showing “Make Your Mark,” an immersive, community-driven exhibition in the Clifford Gallery through May 29. The opening reception was held April 18. Conceived by program director Amy Tingle, the show draws inspiration from street art and the call-and-response nature of public creative expression. The exhibition features participatory installations including doodle […]
Local Color Gallery welcomes art quilter Amy Nichols in Belfast
Local Color Gallery in Belfast welcomes guest artist Amy Nichols from May 19 through June 21. Nichols will speak about her art quilts at the May Art Walk reception on May 22 from 4 to 7 p.m., with her talk beginning at 5 p.m. Nichols’ art quilts have grown out of a lifelong love of […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast opens interactive street art exhibition
Waterfall Arts in Belfast opens “Make Your Mark,” an immersive, community-driven exhibition transforming the Clifford Gallery into an interactive space inspired by street art, April 18 through May 29. An opening reception is April 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The exhibition features participatory installations including doodle […]
Local Color Gallery in Belfast welcomes fiber artist Sarah Leighton
Local Color Gallery in Belfast welcomes fiber artist Sarah Leighton as guest artist April 21 through May 17. Leighton will speak about her work during Fourth Friday Gallery Night on April 25 from 4 to 7 p.m., with her talk beginning at 5 p.m. Leighton grew up in Midcoast Maine, where her French-Canadian grandmother — […]
Local Color Gallery welcomes guest artist Bernadette deCesare and year-round artist Emma Schurink and says good-bye to Debbie Mitchell
Local Color Gallery in Belfast is pleased to welcome guest artist Bernadette deCesare (March 25-April 19) and year-round artist Emma Schurink. Sadly, Debbie Mitchell, a founding member/owner of the gallery, is retiring. DeCesare and Schurink will speak about their work at this month’s Fourth Friday Gallery Night, which runs from 4 to 7 p.m. March […]
Watercolor portraits capturing the immigrant experience through Jean Kigel’s compassionate lens in ‘Displacement’
In an era where migration narratives frequently collapse into faceless statistics, Maine artist Jean Kigel offers something profoundly different: a humanizing gaze that restores individuality to those caught in the global currents of displacement. Her upcoming exhibition at Barbara Kramer Gallery in Belfast Free Library during February transforms political abstractions into intimate encounters. The Belfast […]
Local Color Gallery welcomes guest artist Emily Sabino
Local Color Gallery is pleased to welcome Emily Sabino, whose work will be displayed from Feb. 25 through March 22. Sabino will talk about her ongoing series “Path Forward” at this month’s Fourth Friday Gallery Night, which runs from 4 to 7 pm. Feb. 27. Sabino will speak at 5 p.m., weather permitting. Sabino’s paintings […]
Waterfall Arts in Belfast presents ‘Homegrown: 2026 Denizen Exhibition’
Waterfall Arts welcomes the new year with “Homegrown, its 2026 Denizen Exhibition,” opening Jan. 16 in the Clifford Gallery. The exhibition celebrates the people who make Waterfall Arts feel like home — a place rooted in shared creativity, care, and belonging. For many, home is where we feel most comfortable, loved, and connected. For others, […]
