Meanwhile, a Brunswick man helps run a Red Cross evacuation center east of Fort Myers.
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.
Bangor wedding party safe in Dominican Republic
A Canadian airline was to fly the 19 people to Toronto late Saturday.
Play about Portland’s panhandling debate takes the stage
Snowlion Rep’s season features three plays set in Maine, including ‘Anything Helps God Bless’ and an adaptation of ‘The Cherry Orchard.’
Maine artist makes what may be the world’s largest watercolor
Barbara Prey’s studies of her painting, which was commissioned by MASS MoCA, are on display in Port Clyde.
Maine artists head to the Arctic in search of a new frontier
Alarmed by a changing climate and eager to tell stories, photographers, painters, songwriters and others go north.
Stone exhibition in Boothbay presents artists at work
A dozen carvers will make sculpture as part of a live exhibit about the history of stone and quarrying in Maine.
Living with Lyme disease, a Brunswick artist saves his energy for his art
James Graham is often tired and riddled with pain, and expresses his frustrations and joy in gestural, abstract paintings.
Symposium at Colby explores artists’ role in land conservation
Artists and scholars will speak at the conference Thursday and Friday in Waterville about how art has helped preserve land throughout America, including in Maine.
Bates Dance Festival says goodbye to its founder, good luck to its longtime director
Outgoing director Laura Faure ‘put Maine on the map’ in the dance world.
Ogunquit museum displays friendship – and falling out – of founder and Ernest Hemingway
A new exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art explores Henry Strater’s relationship with the writer, including the incident that inspired ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’