Category: Rockland
It’s time to celebrate! | The Art Loft
We’re Havin’ a Party – And You’re Invited! You’ve seen the announcement… and it’s worth celebrating. So please join us at the Membership Kickoff Party where you can learn more about this exciting new program. You’ll have a chance to meet our amazing line-up of resident artists who will be instructing a variety of classes […]
Farnsworth Presents First Ai Weiwei Exhibition in Maine
Farnsworth Art Museum Presents Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold Beginning on Saturday, March 24, 2018, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine will present a special exhibition of sculptural works by Chinese dissident-artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957). Ai’s gilded bronze Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold series will be on display in the museum’s […]
Ten-Year Survey Exhibition of Artist John Moore at CMCA
John Moore: Resonance, the first solo exhibition in a Maine museum of artist John Moore’s work will open at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland on Saturday, March 3. A public reception honoring the artist will be held on Saturday, March 17, from 4 to 6pm. The exhibition will remain on view […]
Richard Blanco + Jacob Hessler | BOUNDARIES
Boundaries is a collaborative project between Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco and contemporary landscape photographer Jacob Bond Hessler. Blanco’s poems and Hessler’s photographs together investigate the visible and invisible boundaries of race, gender, class, and ethnicity, among many others; they challenge the physical, imagined, and psychological dividing lines—both historic and current—that shadow America and perpetuate […]
Sam Vail joins CMCA as Director of Development and Marketing
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) welcomes Sam Vail as its new Director of Marketing and Development. A lifetime Mainer, Sam brings an enthusiasm for supporting Maine artists and the communities they call home. “Something is growing in Rockland,” he says. “If all you hear is the ocean, you’re not listening.” The hire comes […]
ArtLab for All Ages
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) invites artists of all ages to create one-of-a-kind portraits inspired by CMCA’s current exhibition, “KJ Shows: Portrait of an Artist,” during ArtLab for All Ages on Saturday, March 3, from 2 to 4pm. Your shoes say a lot about you! Take inspiration from artist KJ Shows’ incredibly distinct […]
Dowling Walsh Gallery hosts “Whiteout”
Dowling Walsh Gallery will host a group exhibition of works titled “Whiteout” from February 6 – March 15. “Whiteout” is an exhibition of works that explore the shifting perspectives experienced during winter. When the landscape is coated in snow, there is a lack of reference points for the environment around us. These reduced visual cues and muted […]
“Weather Pending” group show at Caldbeck
Caldbeck Gallery presents “Weather Pending”, a group show, featuring: ANNE ALEXANDER, LISE BECU, ALAN BRAY, DAVID DEWEY, LOIS DODD, MELANIE ESSEX, MAGGIE FOSKETT, BAYARD HOLLINS, KOICHIRO KURITA KAYLA MOHAMMADI, BARBARA SULLIVAN, DAN WEST, and NANCY WISSEMANN-WIDRIG. For more information visit www.caldbeck.com or call 207-594-5935
CMCA announces upcoming exhibitions
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland has announced an exciting and diverse lineup of exhibitions to launch the 2018 season. Opening in February is the exhibition, Boundaries, a recent collaboration between photographer Jacob Hessler and Presidential Inaugural poet Richard Blanco, followed in March by solo exhibitions of painters John Moore and KJ Shows. Jacob […]
Farnsworth Vacation Art Camp: Celebrate Chinese New Year!
Beginning on Tuesday, February 20 the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a three-day art camp for children ages 5 to 7 years old. Led by art instructor Avis Turner this Chinese New Year themed camp will take place at the museum’s Gamble Education Center, located at the corner of Grace and Union Streets in Rockland […]
