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Deadline Fast Approaching: Apply now to the 2022 Portland Fine Craft Show
Application Dates: Through Feb. 1 Application Fee: MCA Members $20; Non-members $25 Late Application Date: Feb. 2 to 15 (fee increased to $50 for all) The online application for the seventh annual Portland Fine Craft Show is open through Juried Art Services. Now is your chance to apply and join 100+ exhibitors from Maine and […]
MCA’s Weekend Workshop announced for May
At long last, MCA’s beloved Weekend Workshop is back with three and a half days of your choice of seven workshops, held at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle. The Workshop will be held May 12 to 15. Online registration is open. Students select first and second choices for workshops and accommodations, with […]
Visit Freeport for Maine Craft Weekend
Visit Freeport on Oct. 1 to 3 for Maine Craft Weekend. Freeport joins the map as a 2021 Featured City for Maine Craft Weekend with Visit Freeport’s 22nd annual Freeport Fall Festival. Throughout the village, you’ll discover an expansive array of Maine artists and craftsmen, as well as local food producers offering everything from jams […]
Visit Bucksport for Maine Craft Weekend
Maine Craft Weekend is Oct. 2 and 3 this year. Bucksport, a community located on the shores of the Penobscot River with a quaint and vibrant Main Street joins this year’s Maine Craft Weekend (MCW) as a Featured City. While in Bucksport, MCW attendees will find several events celebrating local art and craft. On Saturday, […]
STITCH: Maine designers on the runway
STITCH features an evening of style, celebrating Maine designers in a live runway show and offering opportunities to mix and mingle with fellow supporters and followers of design, art and craft — all in support of one of Maine’s essential nonprofit arts organizations, the Maine Craft Association. The MCA’s first slow fashion runway show took […]
Everything is better when it is handmade: Portland Fine Craft Show will be held outdoors on Aug. 28
Produced by the Maine Crafts Association, the Portland Fine Craft Show returns for its sixth season with an outdoor juried fine craft show in Portland from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 28. Admission is free. After five seasons taking over Congress Street, the show has moved to the large parking lot beside the old […]
Indigo Arts Alliance hosts virtual children’s book festival celebrating creators of the African diaspora
Indigo Arts Alliance, an organization committed to cultivating the artistic development of artists of African descent, presents the second Virtual Edition of the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival throughout the months of August and September. The festival is named after the classic picture book “Beautiful Blackbird” and its legendary author and artist, Ashley Bryan. The […]
Indigo Arts Alliance to Host Children’s Book Fest Online
Indigo Arts Alliance, an organization committed to cultivating the artistic development of artists of African descent, launches the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival — in homes across the state. The event was created to honor legendary children’s author and illustrator Ashley Bryan, whose award-winning picture book Beautiful Blackbird is a celebration of Blackness. Indigo, in […]
