Category: Eastport

Eastport’s ArtWalk summer season starts June 25

  Eastport is an art destination on the fourth weekends of June, July and August. Visit galleries, and enjoy artist talks, dance parties, music, theater, films and interactive art experiences for all ages. Get your ArtWalk passports stamped at more than 10 galleries along Water Street for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate. […]

‘Wander Lust’ solo photography exhibit by Susan Moore

“Wander Lust,” a solo show by photographer Susan Moore, runs June 20 to July 3 at Eastport Gallery. Moore learned photography from her father. She was “taught to always have my camera,” she says, “as well as a fishing pole with me, as I imagine he wanted me to be able to fill my soul […]

Eastport launches online exhibit featuring work by gallery members

The Eastport Gallery’s online spring show runs April 2 to June 17, featuring works by 16 gallery members online at www.eastportgallery.com. The gallery at 109 Water St., Eastport, will open for the summer season on June 5. This virtual show provides a taste of what you will see in person this summer.

Full Fathom Five Gallery will open to visitors in May

Full Fathom Five Gallery is getting ready for visitors in May and will introduce new artists as well as showcase work from all it artists. Three new artists are Christina Thwaites, Olga Merrill and Sandra Leinonen Dunn. Christina Thwaites is a British painter, based in Orono. “My work explores the places and faces around me […]

Eastport Gallery presents ‘Hearts for the Arts’

Celebrate the season of love with the Eastport Gallery’s “Hearts for the Arts” community show and silent auction, Feb. 1 to 14. The exhibition, which will take place both online and in the Eastport Gallery’s windows at 109 Water St., is a “beautiful reflection of talent and love for our area,” notes gallery president Joan […]

Art is Celebrated in downtown Eastport

Eastport is Downeast’s not-so-secret arts destination. Come help the 20-member Eastport Gallery celebrate 35 years. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and presents art talks, literary talks, and popup music events from the deck of the gallery (the deck is closed to visitors, but events can be […]

Eastport Gallery reopens

The Eastport Gallery, located in the historic downtown of the island city of Eastport, is now open to the public on a limited basis. Co-op members are thrilled to be able to once again show their works in the gallery space and meet members of the art-loving public. During August and September, the gallery is […]

Eastport Gallery Offers Online Shows

The Eastport Gallery is celebrating its 35th year as a member of the Eastport arts community with three virtual shows beginning in June. The “Community Show” is the gallery’s annual invitation to neighbors and friends to submit works for exhibit. The “General” and “Small Works” shows feature new work by the gallery’s 23-member cooperative. The […]

Eastport ArtWalk Showcases Pride Month

June is Pride month, and many of the almost 40 window galleries in homes and businesses around Eastport will include a rainbow-themed piece in their displays. The ArtWalk project encourages people to walk for exercise while basking in the natural and cultural beauty blooming around town. The Downeast Rainbow Alliance has a slate of virtual […]

Self-Guided Window Gallery Tour

Artists, homeowners and businesses are celebrating the art blooming in windows all around Eastport. Local artists and organizers Anne Shields Hopkins and Joan Lowden, in association with the Eastport Arts Center, Eastport Gallery and Tide Institute & Museum of Art, have created the Eastport ArtWalk Map, a self-guided tour of street-level window galleries. Walk for […]