Category: Belfast
Maine Crafts Guild brings fine craft show to the United Farmers Market Event Center in Belfast
Maine Crafts Guild artisans will show their handmade fine craft in wood, metal, fiber, clay and mixed media at the United Farmers Market Event Center, August 11-12, 2018. The Guild is known for its flagship “Directions” show on Mount Desert Island and has a long-standing tradition of fine craft shows throughout the state. This inaugural […]
Maine Farmland Trust Gallery’s Summer Stable Show
The Maine Farmland Trust Gallery’s annual Summer Stable Show is a favorite with returning art-lovers and summer visitors alike. This is the gallery’s largest, most vibrant group show that showcases twenty-two Maine artists this year, whose work connects to agriculture, nature or environment. This year includes first time exhibitors Sara Gagan and Susan Sidwell. The […]
Betts Gallery Opens Group Show ‘Gray Scale’
Please join Betts Gallery for an opening reception Friday July 6th, 5:30-8pm for a show entitled ‘Gray Scale’. Invited artists and fine crafts people will be showing work that ranges from white to black, with infinite shades of gray in a variety of media; painting, etching, graphite, ceramic, blown glass, photography, sterling silver and enameled […]
Harbor Artisans has come home
Harbor Artisans is ecstatic to have finally found a new home in Belfast, at 69 Main Street. Since we lost our lease several years ago, we’ve been actively seeking a new home and are happy to say we’re back! Renovations are almost complete, and we are getting ready for our grand reopening, and ribbon cutting, […]
7th Annual Maine Pottery Tour
Maine is home to many clay artists – potters & sculptors, all working with earth, water, air & fire to make beautiful, useful, and intriguing objects. It takes a certain kind of person to work in clay – patience, perseverance and a sense of humor help! And although each potter works with the same basic […]
A Summer on the Land: MFT Gallery Exhibits Work by Last Year’s Fiore Art Center Residents
Maine Farmland Trust Gallery opens 2018 with a multi-media show that recalls the summer season. Six visual artists with strong ties to Maine, a historical writing resident, and the resident gardener, share the work they created during their 2017 residency at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at MFT’s Rolling Acres Farm in Jefferson. A […]
Belfast Creative Coalition Announces New Director
Belfast Creative Coalition is excited to welcome Larraine Brown as its new Director. Belfast Creative Coalition (BCC) works to promote and cultivate arts and culture in the Belfast area. Larraine brings to BCC 30-plus years of experience in management, fundraising and development of nonprofits, and start-up businesses. She began her career as a community organizer […]
MFT Gallery exhibit honors “those that bend to raise food for many of us”
In a state like Maine, sometimes the greatest fruits of our labor grow through friendship. The multi-media exhibit “In the INTERVAL between snowflakes,” on view at Maine Farmland Trust Gallery from November 20 through January 5, is a case in point. The exhibition (part photography, part sculpture, part poetry) is a result of over 25 […]
Belfast Creative Coalition seeks Director
Belfast Creative Coalition (BCC) seeks a Director familiar with the arts and culture of Waldo County, to strengthen BCC’s reach and continue its valuable services of cultivating and promoting local art. The position is twenty hours per week; the Director works with a staff of two. Applications are open, and will be accepted through December 4, […]
Holiday Art Walk kicks off a festive month in Belfast!
Join in at the Belfast Holiday Art Walk on December 1st! This festive art walk, the last one of the year, will take place on Main Street and High Street in Belfast on December 1, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. The Belfast Holiday Art Walk is the perfect time to enjoy a wintry evening and […]