The exhibition “Exploding Native Inevitable,” on display October 27, through March 4, 2024, at the Bates College Museum of Art, features thirteen Indigenous artists and one collaborative from around the nation on the vanguard of their practices in ceramics, painting, video, fiber arts, and more. Occurring simultaneously, a new solo exhibition “Brad Kahlhamer: Nomadic Studio, […]
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Exhibition of Fryeburg history to be celebrated at Fryeburg Academy
The Pace Galleries of Art presents an opening reception for an exhibition in support of “Fryeburg, Maine: An Illustrated History,” a new book by Brad Fuller from 4-7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. The book explores the challenges the early settlers faced as they […]
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UMF Art Gallery presents ‘Martha Miller: A Retrospective’
An opening reception for “Martha Miller: A Retrospective” will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12, at the UMF Art Gallery on the campus of University of Maine at Farmington. It is free and open to the public. This vibrant retrospective exhibition documents the past 20 years of Martha Miller’s extraordinarily layered and nuanced human […]
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Paintings by Lewiston artists on display in hospital gallery
The paintings of Lewiston residents Susan and Paul Boucher are on display for the month of October in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Art is an integral part of Paul’s life and has been for almost fifty years. His style combines a sense of realism with […]
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Witchy works fill Art and Ale Window at Gritty’s in Auburn
Melanie Therrien and Corrina Tancrede, artists of Wicked Illustrations Studio and Gallery, are the featured artists for month of October in the Art and Ale Window at Gritty’s in Auburn. Therrien and Tancrede are showing a selection of witchy paintings for the season including witch portraits, hats and brooms. Therrien is the owner of Wicked […]
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Groundbreaking artist and museum educator to give presentation at Bates College Museum of Art
Artist and museum educator Randy Williams will give a talk titled “Everything is Connected: The Art of Resisting Definition,” focusing on his intertwining career as a visual artist, teacher, and museum educator, at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6, at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston. The lecture aligns with the Saturday, Oct. […]
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Traveling exhibit of art by residents of Maine prisons on display at UMF
An opening reception for “Inside Vision: An Outside Exhibition of Inside Art,” a traveling exhibit of art by residents of Maine prisons curated by Jan Collins, Olivia Hochstadt and Nicole Lund (UMF ’24), will be held from 5-7 p.m. with remarks by the curators at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5, in The Emery Community […]
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Local artists’ works on display in CMMC gallery
The paintings of well-known local artists Jeanelle Demers and Elisabeth Salberg are on display for the month of September in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Demers’ current focus is animal portraiture, especially dogs, cats, and birds. With acrylic on canvas, she paints custom pet portraits from […]
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Pair of exhibitions opens fall season at UMF gallery
Two exhibitions will be on display to begin the year at the UMF Emery Community Arts Center. “I don’t like gardening, but I do it anyway, mostly for my neighbors,” an exhibition of paintings, ceramics, book arts and works on paper by Annie Lee Zimerle and Brian Zimerle, will be on display in the Flex […]
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Smithsonian curator to present lecture at Bates College
Ashleigh D. Coren is a Bates College alumna (Class of ’05)