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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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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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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UMF presents ‘Juxtapose’
The University of Maine Farmington began the new academic year with a collection of the visually and conceptually diverse art pieces from the art faculty.
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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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Paintings by Kim Farwell on display in Art & Ale Window
Artwork by Kim Farwell will be on display through the month of August at the Art & Ale Window at Gritty’s in Auburn. Farwell has been interested in art since she was a little girl. As a teen, she could often be found with a drawing pad and colored pencils. As she got older, her […]
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Artist reception to celebrate works of Andre Benoit
An artist reception celebrating the works of Andre Benoit hosted by The Rangeley Friends of the Arts will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 28, at the Lakeside Contemporary Art Gallery, located in the lobby of the RFA Lakeside Theater in Rangeley. This event also coincides with the Rangeley Art Crawl. Complimentary refreshments […]
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As plans for a storefront stall, Lisbon Artist Collective charges forward
The new nonprofit is working to develop new opportunities for community members to engage with art, while continuing to work toward opening a storefront for local artists to sell their creations.
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Paintings featured in WHA gallery at CMMC
The paintings of Sandra Pealer and Michael Everett are on display during the month of July in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Pealer, who delights in the medium of watercolor, and loves the way that watercolor depicts light, shadow and mystery, paints from her studio in […]