Tag: art
Wiscasset Bay Gallery opens ‘The Grand Tour in Thirty Days’
Wiscasset Bay Gallery, celebrating its 42nd year, opened “The Grand Tour in Thirty Days” May 23 in Wiscasset. The exhibition takes viewers through some of the most popular and remote locales across Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, tracing the evolution of painting from realism to impressionism to modernism. Among the standout works […]
UMVA opens two spring shows and call for art for Dreaming at Dawn
The Union of Maine Visual Artists opened two spring exhibitions in May in Harpswell. “Celebrating Hope” launched with a well-attended opening reception during Portland’s first art walk of the season. “It’s the Small Things” opened the same week at the Jean Picker Gallery at Camden Public Library, with a reception held May 9. Thanks were […]
Kittery Art Association showcases K-12 student art
The Kittery Art Association held its annual K-12 student art show May 7 to 16 in Kittery, celebrating emerging young artists from Mitchell, Shapleigh and Traip Academy schools. The exhibit was supported by Cole Harrison Insurance, The Fabulous Find and an anonymous donor, with additional community support from Beach Pea Baking Co., BJ’s Wholesale Club, […]
Centre Street Arts Gallery holds May reception in Bath
Centre Street Arts Gallery, an artist-owned and -operated gallery in downtown Bath, held a reception May 15 to celebrate new work by its 22 members and the arrival of the summer season. The show featured fresh work across a range of styles, with paintings by members including Livy Glaubitz, Kat Logan and Shelby Patton among […]
UMVA invited teaching artists to Zoom brainstorm
The Union of Maine Visual Artists invited member teaching artists to a Zoom meeting May 17 to brainstorm ways the organization can better support independent instructors and those teaching for organizations. Topics included creating a database of organizations and artists’ experiences with them, writing downloadable tip sheets on working in public and private schools, community […]
Barn Gallery opens its 2026 season in Ogunquit with exhibitions, workshops and the 72nd annual auction
Barn Gallery, home of the Ogunquit Art Association, opens its 2026 season May 20 and runs through Oct. 12. The season features four rotating exhibition cycles, a new artist-member jury, the 72nd Annual OAA Art Auction and a full program of artist demonstrations and workshops. The Ogunquit Art Association, established in 1928, is Maine’s original […]
Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates seven years in Portland
Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland’s Black-owned, Black-led, and Black- and Brown-centered arts and culture nonprofit — the first of its kind in Maine — is marking its seventh anniversary this month. Since opening in 2019, the organization has embodied a multiracial approach to the intersections of citizenship, community-building and creativity. Founded by co-founders Daniel and Marcia […]
Transmissions quilts exhibition comes to Belfast with workshops and open mic
Waterfall Arts in Belfast will host “Transmissions Quilts: Home & Away,” a weeklong exhibition of quilts, poetry, oral histories and interdisciplinary works, June 5 to 12. Presented in collaboration with Trans Poetics Archive, Out in the Open and the Belfast Poetry Festival, the exhibition and all accompanying events are free and open to the public. […]
Sidle House Gallery opens its season with Anne Hebebrand solo show in Freeport
Sidle House Gallery in Freeport opens its 2026 season with “Anne Hebebrand: A World That Is,” a solo exhibition of cold-wax and oil paintings on view May 1 through June 13. An opening reception is May 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition draws from seven years of Hebebrand’s work, which she describes as […]
Waterfall Arts presents interactive street art exhibition in Belfast
Waterfall Arts in Belfast is showing “Make Your Mark,” an immersive, community-driven exhibition in the Clifford Gallery through May 29. The opening reception was held April 18. Conceived by program director Amy Tingle, the show draws inspiration from street art and the call-and-response nature of public creative expression. The exhibition features participatory installations including doodle […]
