Category: Belfast
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 […]
Midcoast Umva Juried Winter Exhibition at Waterfall Arts
David Estey curated an exhibit of art by 28 well-known and little-known artists in the mid-coast area that opened with a reception on Jan. 27 at Waterfall Arts, 256 High St. in Belfast. The exhibit contains a wide range of drawings, collages, paintings, photos and sculptures created by members of a new Mid-coast Chapter of […]
Artist Sheep Jones shows at Local Color Gallery
Sheep Jones is the featured guest artist at Local Color Gallery in December, January and February. Jones, who works in oil and wax, says her paintings begin in layers. “Layers add extra interest, leaving swatches of colors in their wake. These are perfect tidbits for the imagination.” Jones always looks for “the puzzle pieces to […]
Artist Ryan Casper shows Gyotaku fish prints at Local Color Gallery
Ryan Casper of Searsmont will be the featured guest artist at Local Color Gallery in November. Casper practices the 19th-century Japanese art of Gyotaku, or fish printing. He brushes Sumi ink made of pine soot and water directly onto the surface of a fish, then presses a sheet of Washi (Kozo) paper made from mulberry […]
Sandra Huck shows at Local Color Gallery
Belfast—Sandra Huck of Caribou is the featured guest artist at Local Color Gallery, 135 High St., from October 3-30. Huck’s sculptures on canvas, created with found objects, feature the weathered, worn, and eroded textures and forms created by nature. Each find—a rock, a feather, driftwood, wire—has its own beauty and voice. When these finds […]
