When the restored municipal organ roars back to life Saturday in Portland’s Merrill Auditorium, one of its biggest champions will be organist.
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.
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Artists help to build stonework collection at Augusta arboretum
A dozen artists will create outdoor sculptures through Sept. 21.
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Portland Museum of Art preserves Winslow Homer’s view
Land surrounding Prouts Neck studio placed in a conservation easement.
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91-year-old writer-artist Ashley Bryan subject of exhibit
Celebrated widely as a children’s book author, Bryan uses his awards as bookends, reveling instead in a continuing sense of childlike wonder.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture boosts funding for local food projects
Rep. Pingree calls increase ‘a huge victory for Maine farmers.’
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David Mallett, Tess Gerritsen to be honored with UMaine degrees
The songwriter and best-selling author will address students at the May 10 commencements.
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Maine’s Haystack Mountain School of Crafts receives $2 million grant
It’s the largest grant in school history and will be used to create a new Open Studio Residency program.
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Marin gift to Arkansas museum enhances the painter’s stature
Arts center’s history of collecting works on paper made it attractive to the artist’s estate
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Deering graduate makes TV debut Tuesday on ABC’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’
Julie Civiello, who spent five years in LA waiting for the break, hopes her character will have a recurring role in the series.
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Trove of Marin paintings, drawings going to Arkansas museum
The gift includes nearly 300 works by the modernist painter, who spent much of his life and career in Maine.