Category: Portland
STITCH: Maine designers on the runway
STITCH features an evening of style, celebrating Maine designers in a live runway show and offering opportunities to mix and mingle with fellow supporters and followers of design, art and craft — all in support of one of Maine’s essential nonprofit arts organizations, the Maine Craft Association. The MCA’s first slow fashion runway show took […]
Everything is better when it is handmade: Portland Fine Craft Show will be held outdoors on Aug. 28
Produced by the Maine Crafts Association, the Portland Fine Craft Show returns for its sixth season with an outdoor juried fine craft show in Portland from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 28. Admission is free. After five seasons taking over Congress Street, the show has moved to the large parking lot beside the old […]
‘Art Matters’ exhibit by the Mid-Coast Salon on display at the UMaine Hutchinson Center
The Mid-Coast Salon exhibit “Art Matters” opens Aug. 4 at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The show, on display through September, is free and open to the public from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. A free public reception for the […]
Mid-Coast Salon ‘Art Matters’ exhibit
Mid-Coast Salon will present the exhibit “Art Matters” at Portland Media Center. The Salon is a monthly discussion group of two dozen accomplished artists brought together by their love for and commitment to art. In this exhibit, 16 of them will present 60 diverse works of drawing, painting, photography, pottery and even flexforms. Participants include […]
East End Vend outdoor market for artists and foodies returns to Portland
East End Vend is a small and festive outdoor market in Portland for members of the Maine Crafts Association and nonmembers to participate as vendors alongside farmers and foodies. East End Vend markets are typically four hours long, held on multiple dates, and offer a wide variety of art, crafts and other Maine products in […]
Maine Craft Interview Episode 3: Kincaid Pearson Interviews Angela Adams
The Maine Craft Interview Project is a Maine Crafts Association initiative bringing artists at different career points (and sometimes generations) together in an interview led by the emerging artist. The emerging artist designs interview questions and interviews an established artist of their choosing. In its third episode, Kincaid Pearson interviews Angela Adams. Kincaid Person is […]
Social justice photo exhibit explores the meaning and evolution of the Take-A-Knee gesture
The Kneeling Art Photography Project (thekneelingartphotography.com), under the direction of Portland artist Titi de Baccarat, will open their first exhibit at SISTERED Gallery, 525 Danforth St., Portland, from 5 to 8 p.m. June 4. The community social justice art project explores the meaning and evolution of the Take-A-Knee gesture by having Maine photographers turn their […]
Mother’s Day sale at MCA Retail Gallery
As we approach Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year, we have much to reflect on. The Maine Crafts Association has missed the familiar faces of its patrons and members as people locked down and changed their lives to become teachers, caregivers and more during the pandemic. Many of you have been the glue holding […]
MCA partners on condominium staging project in Portland
The Maine Crafts Association has long dreamed of outfitting a home with member-made decor and jumped at the chance to partner on a staging project with Hay Runner this spring. Hay Runner, a real estate, design and construction company owned by MCA board member Shannon Richards, partnered with New Height Group, the building developer, […]
Hilary Irons exhibits paintings in ‘Orb Weaver’ at Dowling Walsh Gallery
Dowling Walsh Gallery will host a solo exhibition of paintings by Hilary Irons titled “Orb Weaver” from March 5 to April 24. Hilary Irons is a painter, curator and writer living and working in Portland. She studied painting at Parsons School of Design and the Yale School of Art. Hilary is gallery and exhibitions director […]
