The first tribal member to lead the museum of Wabanaki art, history and culture cites personal reasons and returns to his family and consulting work in Connecticut.
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
No more concerts, but Rock Row developers to open large outdoor art exhibition
The display, opening this weekend, features grand-scale sculptures and murals on shipping containers by leading Maine artists.
Paintings from the dust of 9/11 found in Sidney will be displayed in Falmouth
Works by late New York artist Michael Mulhern, who witnessed the attacks and later moved the Maine, have emerged from storage.
Lyric Music Theater, and most others, go for laughs in their fall lineup
Molly Frantzen, a recently returned Falmouth grad, stars in ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class.’
Ashley Bryan to receive award from Farnsworth
The Maine in America Award is awarded for outstanding contribution to Maine’s role in American art.
Maine State Music Theatre’s stint in Westbrook will be one and done with ‘Jersey Boys’
The Brunswick-based theater had planned other productions for the alternate venue but canceled them last week.
In Bangor, UMaine’s Zillman museum expands
The museum reopens Sept. 11 with five new galleries and eight exhibitions on view.
Portland Symphony returns to Merrill, with audiences
The fall season includes classical and Pops concerts.
Bowdoin museum looks at Black women as subjects and artists
‘There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art’ opens at the Brunswick college on Sept. 16.
Musicals at Ogunquit and Merrill, a premiere at Portland Stage and Good Theater returns
There’s plenty to see this fall theater season.