Category: Portland
Running with Scissors Hosts Opens Studios & 6×6 Exhibit
RE-OPENING after 18 months; Running with Scissors Hosts Opens Studios & 6×6 Exhibit, October 1 – 3, 2021 Wander fun and family-friendly open studios and 6×6 exhibits at Running with Scissors artist studios during Maine Craft Weekend (MCW) and First Friday Art Walk (FFAW). Kick off the weekend at Belleflower Brewing Co. (66 Cove Street) […]
Cove St. Arts presents ‘Peregrine Press @ 30’
Cove St. Arts presents “Peregrine Press @ 30,” Sept. 9 to Nov. 13. This exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of Peregrine Press, a cooperative printmaking studio in Portland. The studio takes its name from the peregrine falcon, a totem representing visionary power, wisdom and guardianship. The exhibition showcases work from over 30 members, demonstrating Peregrine’s […]
Radio Maine: In conversation with Portland Art Gallery’s gallery manager Emma McHold Burke
Emma McHold Burke started working with the Portland Art Gallery just as COVID was causing small businesses like the gallery to “shift direction.” She had recently graduated from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Pennsylvania after gaining an education in painting and art history and had planned her next life steps around the […]
Portland Art Gallery Artist Interview: Sheep Jones
Maine: I was born in Waterville and have four siblings. We’d roam the streets and woods freely with our neighborhood friends. Winters were about ice skating and sledding. In the summers, we’d rent a place on the coast. My husband was also from Waterville and part of a big family so, no matter how many […]
Artist Willam Crosby is inspired by water, land and sky
In the ’70s and ’80s, William Crosby took a number of his students on photography field trips to Maine. Then, in 1985, his wife, Pat, designed and built a home in Tenants Harbor for the parents of her construction partner. As a result, they spent much of that summer in Maine. Through these experiences, they […]
‘Harvest Season’ opening reception at Cove Street Arts
Cove Street Arts will host an opening reception for the group show “Harvest Season” from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 26 at the gallery. The show was curated by Bruce Brown and includes work by Joyce Tenneson, Audrey Gottlieb, Lynn Karlin, Susan Porter, Kris Larson, Linda Cullivan, Mike Cullivan, Carrie Zacharias, Nina Poole, Nanci Kahn, […]
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 […]
