Tag: art

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts welcomes new executive director Liz Seaton

The Board of Trustees of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts recently announced its new executive director, Liz Seaton (pronoun flexible). A longtime civil rights leader and lifelong potter, Seaton moved from Washington, D.C., to Edgecomb to join the Watershed team starting on Jan. 17. Seaton takes the helm from Watershed’s outgoing executive director, Fran […]

University of Southern Maine names Veronica A. Perez its artist-in-residence

University of Southern Maine recently announced its spring 2023 artist-in-residence, Veronica A. Perez. Perez’s work is between interdisciplinary sculpture and community practice, encouraging a reflection on identity for participants and viewers alike. Perez’s project with USM is titled “braiding circles.” It will be an immersive installation featuring hair, hands, and oral stories that ruminate on […]

‘Hidden Stories’ at the University of Southern Maine, 

“Hidden Stories” runs Jan. 19 to Feb. 18 at the University of Southern Maine, featuring work by artists Kate Cheney Chappell and Annie Lee-Zimerele that spans book arts and other primarily 2D mixed-media. An opening reception was held Jan. 26. The ephemeral nature of drawings, prints and printed books, objects critical to the dissemination of […]

‘Charlie Hewitt: Bright Screens and Electric Dreams’ featured at Moss Galleries in Portland in January

Moss Galleries and Maine artist Charlie Hewitt partnered with United Way and WEX (NYSE: WEX) for an exhibition of art in the digital age. “Charlie Hewitt: Bright Screens and Electric Dreams” was on view in January and featured 56 digital artworks in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), framed prints and neon sculptures. Coming off […]

Centre St Arts Gallery will host a reception for its first exhibit of 2023

Centre St Arts Gallery will host a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 10, showcasing new works by members, including two new member artists, Marijke Damrell and Renu O’Connell. Refreshments will be thoughtfully prepared with COVID-19 precautions. Drinks will be served by gallery hosts. Centre St Arts Gallery is at 11 Centre St., Bath. […]

Kennebec Valley Art Association announcement and upcoming shows

When I assumed the presidency of the Board of Directors in July, I did not imagine that I would lock the Harlow for the last time on November 30. I did so with a mixture of sadness and relief. Like many of you, I grieve the loss of our gallery. However, we still have our […]

A visit with painter Peter Rudolph on Little Cranberry Island

When a visitor asks Peter Rudolph to see his studio, the painter walks to a side door on the back porch of his home on Little Cranberry Island, aka Islesford, off the coast of Maine, descends a few steps, and pulls a blue tarp off a garden cart. There, revealed, is a mess of art-making […]

Portland Art Gallery interviews Matthew Barter

By Susan Sherrill Axelrod Painter and sculptor Matthew Barter has spent his career paying homage to the downeast Maine fishing community where he grew up. With their iconic shapes, his bold, elemental paintings capture the stark beauty of the landscape and the rugged reality of making a living from the sea. They represent the coastal […]

David Estey at Cove Street Arts

View all the images in David Estey’s latest show and connect to a virtual tour of most pieces in the exhibit by going to www.covestreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/emergent-phenomena, or tour the show via video at youtu.be/22Rnd85FjMQ The show remains up through Jan. 7 at Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove St., Portland. 

Barn Gallery looks ahead at 2023

The Barn Gallery will again be open from mid-May through early October in 2023, hosting four exhibitions with receptions and six artist showcases. The year will start with the “Student Show,” which features artwork K-12 from area schools. The “Open Juried Show” will be back in July. Anyone can enter this open exhibition. The expanded […]