Category: exhibitions

Maine Art Gallery’s 2026 season explores the natural world and Maine’s food culture

Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset has shaped its 2026 exhibition season around the ways artists respond to the natural world and Maine’s place in the sustainable agriculture movement. The season opens with “Art to Table: Visual Sustenance,” a juried show examining individual and communal relationships to food through works that elevate ingredients, meals and rituals. […]

Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport looks ahead to spring exhibitions and performances

Meetinghouse Arts kicked off the season with a creative conversation featuring artist Charlie Hewitt on March 18, partnering with Freeport Community Services for the evening event. Hewitt is known for his Hopeful Project, a glowing installation originally commissioned by Speedwell in 2019 that has since spread to dozens of sites. The gallery also hosted a […]

‘Block Party!’ in York celebrates regional artists

George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened “Block Party!” on March 15, bringing together artists living, working or with ties to York, Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick, Ogunquit and Wells. The open-call exhibition featured a wide variety of mediums, experimental approaches and interpretations of local landmarks. The show included work by Karen Adrienne, Marena Bach, Todd […]

‘INKED: Natural Pigments from Mexico to Maine’ opens at Center for Maine Craft

Shop Maine Craft presents “INKED: Natural Pigments from Mexico to Maine,” a solo exhibition by Kaspar Heinrici of Treib Designs, on view Feb. 27 to April 10 at the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner. The exhibition brings together drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture to examine the intersections of material, perception and place, grounding […]

Lights Out Gallery in Norway announces March events

Lights Out presents an artist talk and interview screening with Karen Jelenfy from 4 to 6 p.m. March 10 at The Commons in Belfast, held in conjunction with Jelenfy’s solo exhibition “Horizons.” The evening includes a screening of her 2021 interview “A Strong Dose,” followed by a discussion with Jelenfy, Lights Out creative director Karlë […]

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 […]

Centre St Arts Gallery will host a spring opening reception

Join Centre St Arts Gallery for its early spring opening reception in Bath with new work from 22 local artists. The Spring Art Reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. March 20, with four new and two returning artists joining 16 well-known members of the gallery. Noel Bicknell’s fresh and striking watercolors are […]

‘Displacement: Immigrant Portraits’ exhibition travels to Rockport Public Library

“Displacement: Immigrant Portraits” arrives at the Rockport Public Library, 1 Limerock St., Rockport, from March 4 to 28, bringing a timely and quietly forceful body of watercolor work by Jean Kigel into a public civic space. Kigel’s portraits depict immigrants from India, China, Gaza, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Mexico and Latin America, […]

New exhibition at Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland: ‘Robert Hamilton: Paper Moon’

One of the most idiosyncratic artists of post-War American art, Robert Hamilton (1917-2004) taught painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design for 34years. Yvonne Jacquette, Richard Merkin, George Lloyd and Dean Richardson were some of his many students. For Hamilton, who flew over 100 missions in WW II as a P-47 fighter […]

Upcoming events and exhibitions at Meetinghouse Arts

Calling all local parents and educators! Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport is officially inviting all student artists (grades K-12) to submit their work for an exhibition celebrating Youth Art Month 2026. Whether your students are painters, sculptors, or digital creators, this is their moment to shine in a professional gallery setting. Registration closes March 20. Details […]