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New issue of MMPA Antidote now available online
In response to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders and local closings, the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland began creating the online series MMPA Antidote, which includes photographic artwork, audio interviews, and artist statements and reflections from Maine artists, aimed to serve as inspiration during times of isolation. Published bi-weekly, Antidote features contemporary photographers and interviews […]
Wrapping Up 2020: A word from Craig Olson of the Island Institute
A Year. I’ll leave it at that. It’s been “A Year.” You can read whatever you want into it. Claire Donnelly and I recently sat down to wrap up our current Commercial Currents podcast series, Business in Uncertain Times. It’s really a review of our impressions of 2020 for businesses in Maine, successes and failures, […]
Artemis Gallery holiday show
Artemis Gallery was open Nov. 27 and 28 for a holiday show. A portion of sales was donated to the Good Shepherd Food Bank. “While the physical gallery is closed for the colder months, all artwork can still be viewed online at artemisgalleryme.com” For more information call 207-276-3001, or email [email protected].
Three exhibits are on view at Caldbeck Gallery
Through Oct. 10, in an exhibit titled “A Place on the Water: Paintings from Maine 1968-1975,” the Caldbeck Gallery celebrates the early Maine paintings of Nancy Wissemann-Widrig. Also on exhibit at the gallery is “Do Not Fear,” a body of work of small paintings in oil on panel by Janice Kasper. The “Evolving Group Show” […]
MCA Essay Series: ‘What Maine Craft Means to Me’ by John Baldacci
Artists tell us who we are as a people. They reflect our spirit and define our soul. Maine is very unique, we are not like anywhere else. As governor, I identified and supported our creative economy, which linked this talent to our economic engine. Maine has world-renowned writers, photographers, painters, poets, builders, basket makers and […]
MCA Essay Series: ‘What Maine Craft Means to Me’ by Theresa Secord
I weave ash and sweetgrass baskets in the traditional Penobscot tribal style. I admire the resilience of my ancestor basket makers, especially my great-grandmother, who actively practiced economic self-sufficiency as an Indigenous woman entrepreneur. I was always very interested in basketry and my native culture, especially when I visited the Indian Island home of my […]
Archipelago virtual exhibit of Five Photographers
Greetings from Archipelago. I’m excited to personally invite you to join me in a virtual event celebrating Maine as we share our stories, personal vision, and our favorite images inspired by our beautiful state. I’m honored to join in a visual conversation featuring the work of Olga Merrill, Jim Nickelson, Terry Hire, and Joise Iselin […]
Mj Viano Crowe of Belfast Exhibiting at DeCordova Museum
A large scale photographic work by Belfast, Maine artist Mj Viano Crowe is among selected works by other distinguished photographers and photographic artists of the 20th century now on display at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, in a retrospective exhibit “All The Marvelous Surfaces, Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt,” an acclaimed German photographer whose collection […]
Betts Gallery Presents ‘City Country’
Betts Gallery in Belfast is starting off the new year with a show of paintings by Sheep Jones and her sister Julie Cyr, who passed away in December 2019. The show entitled ‘City Country’ runs from January 24th through February 21st. Coming home to Maine, the Waterville natives, settled in Belfast after years of […]
Cig Harvey solo at Ogunquit Museum
This exhibition is the first solo museum presentation in the United States of contemporary artist Cig Harvey. Spanning photography, video, mixed media and the written word, Harvey’s creative practice explores the physical and emotional boundaries of the senses. Her vividly colored images and seductive vocabulary combine to suggest dreamlike narratives informed by sensations of touch, […]
