Category: Rockland

CMCA Sunday Salon “Materiality” Artist Talks with Brown + Mess + Stephan

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) invites the public to attend the fourth and final Sunday Salon on February 4 at 3pm, with Jackie Brown, Jonathan Mess, and Aaron T Stephan, artists featured in the current exhibition, Materiality: The Matter of Matter. The artists will each present short illustrated talks about the materials they […]

Dowling Walsh Galleries announces opening of Bo Bartlett Center

Dowling Walsh Galleries is pleased to announce that Columbus State University opened the Bo Bartlett Center, an 18,000-square-foot exhibition space and learning center dedicated to American realism. Housed in a converted textile mill, the center features many of Bartlett’s epochal paintings, as well as the work of the artists who have influenced him, including many from Maine. […]

Featured Artist Kim Nicholl and Call for Teachers at The Art Loft

Artist Kim Nicoll has been teaching at the Art Loft for a year and a half. We are pleased to feature her work. Why do you create what you do and what drives you? I’m a very visual person. I want to sketch everything. As a child, I always doodled, even on my school work, […]

CMCA Announces Open Call for 2018 Biennial

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) is announcing an open call for submissions to the 2018 CMCA Biennial exhibition. Submissions will be accepted online through the CMCA website from January 1 through April 2, 2018. The CMCA Biennial is an open juried competition for artists at all stages of their career who have a […]

CMCA exhibition features work by Artist Heather Lyon

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) invites the public to the exhibition, Materiality: The Matter of Matter, on view at CMCA through February 11, 2018. Lyon (b. 1975) is a sculptor and performance artist who works with unlikely materials ranging from rebar to sequins to milk. She received her MFA and BFA from the School of the Art […]

Art for Us Lecture Series with Educator Roger Dell at CMCA

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum are co-presenting “Art for Us,” a four-part discussion series led by Museum Educator Roger Dell during the month of January 2018. Presented over four consecutive Sundays, January 7, 14, 21, and 28, at 2pm, participants will discuss important questions concerning contemporary art and its […]

Chinese Painting and Traditional Tea Ceremony at The Art Loft Gallery

This class will focus on learning how to paint Morning Glory flowers. This will involve composition, the use of colors and ink, the study of line, and the dry and wet application of colors. Also during the class, we will taste three kinds of Chinese tea and enjoy a traditional Chinese tea ceremony to help us […]

CMCA Sunday Salon | “Materiality” Artists Talk

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art invites the public to attend the first of four Sunday Salon gallery talks with artists featured in the current exhibition, Materiality: The Matter of Matter, on December 3 at 3pm. CMCA’s Sunday Salons are an ongoing series of engaging talks and conversations by artists and leaders in the fields […]

Art Space Gallery announces a new show for December

Art Space Gallery Invites the community to December’s new show in our front room. This month we will be featuring all of our gallery artisans in the front room with a focus on winter. Come kick off the holiday season while enjoying the arts. Art Space Gallery is located at 342 Main Street across from […]

First Friday Art Walk, Rockland ME, 5-8pm, 3 November 2017

Rockland’s 2017 First Friday Art Walk season continues on Friday, 3 November. Several of Rockland’s galleries will be open, including: Asymmetrick Arts, Gallery 440, Archipelago, Craft Gallery, The Art Loft, The Maine Coastal Islands Art Gallery, The Gautschi Center, CMCA and Black Hole. The Strand Theatre will be screening “Lucky” at 5:30 & 8pm. Archipelago, […]