Category: Belfast

Waterfall Arts celebrates with “HERE IS MAGIC”

  Waterfall Arts, a vibrant hub of artistic expression and cultural connection, is thrilled to announce the unveiling of a captivating three-story public art piece, “Here Is Magic.” This momentous event, set to take place on September 8 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm EDT, will be an enchanting celebration of creativity, community, and the […]

Liz Prescott returns as the guest artist at Local Color Gallery

Liz Prescott will return as the guest artist at Local Color Gallery in September. Prescott’s art is driven by a love of process and color. Her work often focuses on reflected images, particularly of boats and buildings — forming, dissolving, reforming.  She is a graduate of Maine College of Art and Vermont College of Fine […]

Pendants to adorn ‘witness trees’ along trail at Head Of Tide Nature Preserve

In collaboration with Coastal Mountains Land Trust, Art Gone Wild hosts artists at the Head of Tide Preserve for performances and installations of their work free to the community. During this third micro-residency, artwork by artists Peter Walls and Allegra Kuhn will festoon the trails. Through the act of seeing, experiencing and searching out inspiration […]

Local Color Gallery to host Fourth Friday Gallery Night with Karen Olson

Local Color Gallery will host a Fourth Friday Gallery Night from 4 to 7 p.m. June 23 featuring work by Karen Olson, a self-described lens-based artist and sculptural photographer. Keenly interested in a human/nature connection and how it supports and fosters mental health and interpersonal communication is the subject of Olson’s latest project, “Sleeping in […]

Local Color Gallery celebrates fifth anniversary and welcomes new guest artist

Local Color Gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary from 3 to 6 p.m. April 28 with refreshments and a new show. Five years ago, the Women Artists of Midcoast Maine (WAMM) banded together to find venues for their work. When they saw a For Rent sign on a space in the Masonic Block in Belfast, […]

Local Color Gallery will host a demo on Print Day in May to benefit turtles

Three printmakers from Local Color Gallery will demonstrate the art of printmaking from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 6 in celebration of Print Day in May.  Leslie Moore (linocut), MF Morison (linocut/copper plate etching) and Nell Parker (woodcut) will join printmakers from around the world on this first Saturday in May to make prints […]

Artist Van Bankston exhibits paintings at Local Color Gallery

Van Bankston is the featured guest artists at Local Color Gallery in Belfast from March 28 through April 23. Bankston paints big, bold, geometric abstractions. “My artwork is about being authentic — “editing the world, editing my life to what is the truth,” he says. “Going beyond the things I have done or acquired, with […]

Artists and Makers Conference in Belfast

Join Archipelago from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 28 at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast to celebrate this year’s conference theme: Together Again. The Artists and Makers Conference brings together artists and makers from across Maine to hear from industry leaders and peers, gain practical experience and information, and build connections to the […]

Local Color Gallery Welcomes Two Artists Named Liz

Local Color Gallery in Belfast is pleased to announce that Liz Kalloch will join the gallery as a full-time artist and Liz Prescott will return as a guest artist in the month of March. The new show will be up from March 1-28 at 135 High St. Liz Prescott’s art is driven by a love […]

Archipelago Artist and Makers Conference will return in April

Save the date! The Archipelago Artist and Makers Conference will return on April 28 at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to celebrate this year’s conference theme, “Together Again.” Archipelago is thrilled to make the conference happen in person this year/ More information and registration to come. Find the […]