Tag: Maine
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 […]
New issue of MMPA Antidote now available online
Marco Sange’s “Wunderkamera by Sanges” body of work is inspired by Max Ernst and the Surrealist movement. His iconic photography has been inspired by the sequential nature of cinema, in particular the luminous black-and-white films of the silent era. Every sequence tells a highly personal and multi-layered story. Seeking inspiration from Surrealism and the visual […]
Maine Crafts Association’s creates online classifieds for artists
[SOURCE & SELL] ‘Craft Classifieds Edition’ is a facet of the Maine Crafts Association’s [SOURCE + BUY] project. This resource is free for MCA members and nonmembers. Are you buying, selling, trading, hiring, or renting? Perhaps it’s time to clean out your studio and find new homes for some tools or equipment? Looking to hire […]
Maine Crafts Association’s SOURCE + BUY Initiative Connects Consumers with Maine Makers
SOURCE + BUY is the Maine Crafts Association’s initiative to help craft consumers connect with makers and their work during — and beyond — the COVID-19 crisis. The SOURCE+BUY initiative contains the work of 100-plus craft artists from around the state. Consider making your […]
Sarah Faragher’s ‘At Sea’ Opens at Landing Gallery
The solo exhibit “At Sea: new paintings of the Maine coast,” by Sarah Faragher, runs June 5 to 28 at Landing Gallery. Faragher was born and raised on the coast of Maine and still makes her home there. She calls her paintings “memoirs of my experiences with nature.” “The ocean is a constant companion,” she […]
Philip Frey, Judy Belasco and Philip Barter
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art is pleased to present three solo shows: Philip Frey: Soft Persuasion; Judy Belasco: The Mystery of Water; and Philip Barter: Mainescapes. The shows will run from June 20 through July 14. All three artists will be presenting new and recent work. Courthouse Gallery is located at 6 Court Street in Ellsworth. […]
