Photos by Alex Cornell du Houx of Hillary Clinton at the DNC Convention
Photographer Ramona du Houx exhibits at SugarWood Gallery
June 21, 2016 • From the SUN JOURNAL of Lewiston, Maine And the Daily Bulldog in Farmington FARMINGTON – SugarWood Gallery “Artist of the Month” Ramona du Houx of Solon, will be feted at an Open House Reception on Friday, July 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. during Farmington’s First Friday Art Walk. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served. du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking mystery and a sense of wonder. Some find them nostalgic and some mystical. Many have said the images have a healing nature.FARMINGTON – SugarWood Gallery “Artist of the Month” Ramona du Houx of Solon, will be feted at an Open House Reception on Friday, July 1 from […]
Sugarwood Gallery du Houx exhibit includes mystical watercolor like images
Article in Maine Insights For the month of July the SugarWood Gallery, at 248 Broadway in Farmington, will feature the fine art photography of Ramona du Houx. The open house will be held on July 1st from 5pm-8pm, during Farmington’s First Friday Art Walk. Ramona du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking mystery and a […]
Maine’s mystical ships by Ramona du Houx – May 2016 exhibit
Seascapes “Our bodies consist of the same proportion of water as the earth. We are creatures of the sea. The draw of the ocean has been written about time and again. There is something more vast and more mysterious about the sea than anything else on earth. It’s something similar to the vastness and mystery of the universe itself. […]
Boat to document Mississippi being built in Maine
SEE KICKSTARTER HERE One possible iteration of the boat as it travels south The boat will be built at the Apprenticeshop in Rockland, Maine this spring. By Morgan Rogers and Emily du Houx We’re building a boat and traveling the length of the Mississippi to create a floating, multimedia portrait of the river. About this project We are taking a centuries-old journey down the Mississippi River, from just below Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, in the wake of river travelers from the past—the farmers, the adventurers, the shanty-boat drivers, the river rats, the clam divers, the west-ward settlers, the original inhabitants, the characters of fiction and myth—in a boat that we will build. We believe that […]
Peregrine Press in Portland at 25 –
Peregrine Press will present a 25th anniversary exhibition of fine art prints at the Lewis Gallery of the Portland Public Library from May 6 though June 25, 2016, featuring 49 works by current and former members. There will be an Opening Reception Friday, May 6, from 5-8 p.m, as well as a First Friday reception on June 3, from 5-8 […]
The 8th Biennial Greenhut Gallery Portland show
April 7 – 30, 2016 An invitational group show focused on Portland. The work of over 50 artists ranges greatly in style, content and approach. There is something for everyone and the work transmits insights into the Portland art movement. 146 Middle St, Portland, ME 207-772-2693 info@greenhutgalleries.com
The Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps at the University of Southern Maine
Runs from April 7, 2016 to September 3, 2016 Maps with pictorial elements have a long history. Medieval and early modern maps frequently had pictures of people, places, and objects on the map or in the map border. In the midnineteenth century, bird’seye views became popular, particularly in the United States, and established the oblique view as a common […]
Tour with Photographer Koichiro Kurita of His Show at Farnsworth
Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland will present a special gallery tour of “From the Smallest Leaf: Photographs by Koichiro Kurita,” led by the artist at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, the day of the exhibit’s public opening. Born in Manchuria in 1943, Kurita went on to work in Japan as a freelance commercial photographer. At age 40, after […]
The Way Things Were: Deer Isle in the Steamboat Era depicts life on Maine’s islands during a bygone age
Life on Maine’s islands during the era when communities relied on steamboats is the focus of a new book edited by Bill Haviland and Carroll “Cabbage” Haskell, both of Deer Isle. The Way Things Were: Deer Isle in the Steamboat Era is a unique collection of stories and essays by Thomas P. Haviland, Bill’s farther and father-in-law of Carroll. “What […]
Crimes of War a compelling Neil Rolde novel that takes on why massacres happen
By Ramona du Houx in Maine Insights Crimes of War, Neil Rolde’s newest novel deals with a real SS massacre of a small town in France during World War II called Oradour-sur-Glane. “The drama here was that some of the perpetrators were French citizens—Alsatians drafted into the SS. They were put on trial in 1953 for their part—under duress, it […]
In Maine, Haystack’s Mentor Program is under way
From January to April, students from Deer Isle-Stonington High School, George Stevens Academy and Bucksport High School are working, over several weekends, with local artist mentors in individualized and intensive workshops in the artists’ studios. Thirteen students are working with five professional artists from the area in Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ 2016 Mentor Program: Mark Bell (porcelain clay/wheel-throwing), […]
Maine’s Portland Art Museum exhibits American Indian photos
“Selections from the North American Indian” by Edward Curtis will be exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art from February 26th through May 29. It includes 25 photos of Indians that Curtis shot between 1907 and 1930. The faces of the portraits say so much. The images were first included in a book project by Curtis, “The North American Indian.” […]
Tides Institute Internship in Maine
North Atlantic Internship 2016: A summer internship at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art Deadline 03-15-2016 A summer internship at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art to assist with program objectives of small museum/cultural non-profit located in the waterfront community of Eastport, Maine. Interns selected to be part of the Institute’s North Atlantic Internship Program gain experience assisting staff members with program development, community outreach efforts, public relations/marketing initiatives, database projects (collections management, event listings, digital media editing), social media updates (Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram), staffing the gallery and special events, assisting with exhibition installations, and providing support to artists-in-residence.
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