Tag: Maine
2021 MCA Guild Fine Craft Shows announces dates and locations
Beginning in 2020, the Maine Crafts Association and the Maine Crafts Guild joined together as one Maine craft organization offering all the programs, events and initiatives previously offered by each separate organization, including the four fine craft shows previously managed by the Maine Crafts Guild. The shows feature fine craft artist exhibitors who are […]
Online Art Auction will benefit the Maine Art Gallery
The Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset has gathered a number of noteworthy, yet affordable, works of art for an online auction that is open for bidding from May 1 to June 15. The pieces, donated by artists and collectors, offer the buyer an opportunity to obtain fine art while helping to support the nonprofit […]
Mother’s Day sale at MCA Retail Gallery
As we approach Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year, we have much to reflect on. The Maine Crafts Association has missed the familiar faces of its patrons and members as people locked down and changed their lives to become teachers, caregivers and more during the pandemic. Many of you have been the glue holding […]
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 […]
Artists & Makers Week
Archipelago presents the annual Artists & Makers Week this year from April 5 to 9, held entirely virtually online. This weeklong, all-virtual format will feature a variety of live and pre-recorded events and web-based resources to support Maine artists, makers and the arts-based businesses that make up the state’s creative economy. Highlights this year include […]
Archipelago celebrates springtime
Spring forward! It’s a great time to look ahead, and Archipelago is doing just that. Staff is receiving new items from artists and makers each day that will be available online and in the store. On Main Street in Rockland, staff has painted the walls, are training new team members, and will open the doors […]
Hélène Farrar upcoming shows and news
Hélène Farrar has taught and worked in the visual arts for 20 years while exhibiting in commercial, nonprofit and university galleries in New England, New York City, Pennsylvania, Italy and England. “While I am slowing down, I also seem to be speeding up,” she writes. “The studio is bustling. Paintings are being created for the […]
MCA Essay Series: What Maine Craft Means to Me
By Emmanuel Sogunle I didn’t really notice that my world was filled with craft until recently. Thanks to the Lunder Institute for American Art, I was able to work on a project called the Makers Map. The Makers Map is an interactive map that identifies and locates makers and craftspeople to provide an online network […]
Maine artists included in international Telephone project
More than 950 artists from across the world are creating original, interconnected artworks in a global game of Telephone. The online, interactive exhibition is scheduled to launch in April, and several Maine artists will participate. On its surface, Telephone is simple. Based on the children’s game, a message is “whispered” from art form to art […]
Maine artist Reggie Burrows Hodges receives national grant
Dowling Walsh artist Reggie Burrows Hodges received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant. The Maine-based painter’s works explore storytelling and visual metaphor. His large-scale paintings — rendered in acrylic and pastel on raw canvas — explore universal subjects, such as identity, community, truth and memory and often draw inspiration from his childhood in […]
