Photograph by Neal Parent, Parent Gallery Come kick off the holidays in downtown Belfast with festive cultural and retail enticements the weekend of December 5th and 6th! With two evenings of art openings and street performances as part of Belfast Art’s special holiday art walk offerings, the monthly First Friday Contra Dance, and Our Town Belfast’s annual Early Bird Sale […]
In December, the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in Hallowell presents a NEW fundraiser, “Holiday Hodgepodge”, a showcase of fine art and craft, including contemporary and vintage original art. Artwork can be purchased off the wall and taken home the same day; 50% of any sold work will benefit programming at the Harlow Gallery while 50% will go to […]
On Friday evening, December 5th, Historic Downtown Gardiner will abound with creative energy and good cheer, as Artwalk Gardiner celebrates the culmination of its tenth season. Launched in 2005 by Artdogs™ studios and a small group of area artists, Artwalk Gardiner is comprised of a non-juried group of diverse artists who live and/or work within a twenty-mile radius of downtown […]
Ursula K. Le Guin was honored at the National Book Awards November 20, 2014, and gave a speech about the dangers to literature and how they can be stopped. Le Guin received wide recognition for her novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970. Her subsequent novel The Dispossessed made her the first person to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel twice for the same two books. Thank you Neil, and to the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks from the heart. My family, my agent, editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as mine, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much […]
Barbara Vanderbilt’s exhibit includes interpretations of Maine’s rock, wood and ice formations. Her pastel paintings capture the subtle changes in texture and color of nature’s timeworn crafting of unusual designs, resulting in intriguing studies. The show will run Oct. 23 through Dec. 2,at Savory Maine, 11 Water Street in Damariscotta Recently, Vanderbilt has been exploring water and ice formations and […]
River Arts, in Damariscotta, invites the public to the opening reception for their Artist’s Choice Exhibition on Friday, Nov. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show includes artwork by 80 Maine artists in a wide variety of media, sculpture and fine crafts. The exhibition will hang until Dec. 11. “As I looked through and started to choose pieces for […]
“Inspired by Katahdin” Opens Tomorrow at Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine from November 7th to the 29th. There will be an opening reception and book signing on Friday, November 7th from 5 to 8 pm.The Harlow Gallery is open 12-6PM, Wednesday–Saturday. Maine’s majestic Mount Katahdin is the muse for the 49 artists participating in “Inspired by Katahdin,” juried by David […]
Finally, a children’s book in four languages! Here is an example of some of the playful, educational pages in Clipper’s ABC’s, plus the front and back. Adventure with Clipper, the adorable Maine island puppy, as he takes children into his world, while teaching them their ABC’s in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese. One painting leads into the next, as children […]
Many people have asked Ramona du Houx for posters and postcards of some of her photographic art work. So, Ramona has chosen three images and has printed them as 18 x 24 posters, that can be matted and framed. She picked three flower images for the 6 x 4 postcards. Each dreamlike image, Garden, Discovery and Lilly Bells, transports the […]
On The Bangor Daily. The Constellation Gallery, home of the Maine Artist Collective (MAC), has put out a “Call for Art” throughout the great state of Maine for the upcoming Miniatures Show from November 21st to January 27th. Artists will have the opportunity to show downtown Portland from November until January, during two art walks with receptions — one on […]
This is the final week to view the Kennebec Land Trust 25th Anniversary Art Exhibition! Proceeds benefit two important Central Maine nonprofits (KLT and the Harlow Gallery). The gallery is open Wednesday – Saturday noon-6pm. Show ends Saturday, November 1st.
The Constellation Gallery, home of the Maine Artist Collective (MAC), has put out a “Call for Art” throughout the great state of Maine for the upcoming Miniatures Show from November 21st to January 27th. Artists will have the opportunity to show downtown Portland from November until January, during two art walks with receptions — one on December 5th and the […]
Contractors began tearing down a building in Rockland on October 27, 2014, to make way for a new home for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art(CMCA). CMCA got special permission to build a new contemporary building in Rockland going against city ordinances. City officials agreed to the modern design of the new CMCA museum/workshop space because Rockland has become a go-to place for fine art in Maine. The move to Rockland will enable CMCA to stay open year-round and increase its presence and Rockland’s reputation for a growing creative economy and cultural community. The art center will move seven miles south to downtown Rockland by July 2016. CMCA has been in Rockport since 1952.
The University of Southern Maine and a Portland education group will receive $1.9 million from the federal government for arts education in Portland schools. The university announced last week that Youth in Action: Side x Side and the school will receive the grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant will be used to develop a four-year arts education program entitled, Project IMAGINE.
Originally published in Island Ad-Vantages, October 9, 2014 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts recently received two grants supporting two of the school’s programs for Maine teens. The Maine-based Quimby Family Foundation awarded $20,000 to support Haystack’s 2014 Studio Based Learning and 2015 Student Craft Institute programs—each program received $10,000. A $7,000 grant, from the Parker Poe Charitable Trust, also supported […]
From an article by Colin Ellis, for The Forecaster PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland Museum of Art will close for about six weeks early in 2016 as it works to make its collection more accessible to patrons. The work is part of a new strategic “vision” for the museum, which will close in mid-January 2016 and reopen in mid-February. Museum Director Mark Bessire said the goal of the strategic plan is to “think about what we would look like in 20 years.” It emphasizes expansion, growth and a master plan for the institution’s downtown campus. “The campus master plan will go into the hands of the new strategic planning committee, and they’ll start work at the beginning of next year,” […]
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