Amanda Retus is the featured summer artist on display in the Art and Ale window at Gritty’s in Auburn. Her work will be on display through August. Originally from Needham, Massachusetts, Retus has been a Maine resident since 2000. She loves to drive through the Eastern pines, the mountains and the ocean, capturing the beauty […]
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‘Surroundings’ exhibit opens at Maine Art Gallery
Artists Liz Hoag, Justine Lasdin-Springer, Lin Lisberger, and Paige Taylor are featured in Maine Art Gallery’s upcoming show, “Surroundings.” An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, and the exhibit will be on display through Aug. 18. The exhibit examines how they artists express not only the […]
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‘Life Inspired,’ a retrospective exhibit presented by Barbara Rule Traficonte
A retrospective exhibit by Barbara Rule Traficonte, “Life Inspired,” will open with a reception from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, July 8, at the Matolcsy Art Center in Norway. There will be light finger foods and drink. The retrospective will represent a wide variety of her work dating back to 1952; seventy five years of oil […]
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Talk to cover ‘The Painter from Maine: Marsden Hartley in Lovell and across the State’
Author and USM professor Donna Cassidy will deliver an in-person talk about renowned Maine artist Marsden Hartley at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 22, at The Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell. Professor Cassidy will speak immediately following the library’s Annual Meeting, which will take place in the King Community Room beginning at 6:30 p.m. […]
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Exhibit celebrates 100th anniversary of Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary, the Woman’s Hospital AssociationRotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston is hosting an exhibit of paintings and photographs inspired by Thorncrag. Over the last year a number of artists have gathered at Thorncrag, the 450-acre nature sanctuary owned by the Stanton Bird […]
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Connie Ladd-McVey artwork to be featured in Western Maine Art Group gallery
The Western Maine Art Group’s Artist of the Month in June is Connie Ladd-McVey. Her work will be featured at the Main Street Gallery in Norway. The artist will host a First Friday Reception from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, June 3. Retiring after forty years in commercial art, and moving to Auburn, she continued expanding […]
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‘With Flying Colors’ exhibit showcases light and movement
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Local photographers featured in CMMC gallery
The work of local photographers Bonita Boothby and Richard Plourde will be on display for the month of May in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Boothby is a self-taught Maine photographer who started taking photos of her parents’ beautiful flower gardens when she was in high […]
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Review: Biographies of a musician and a painter succeed admirably in conveying the arts to young children
‘Look!’ and learn from two compelling new picture books, one about Scott Joplin, the other Winslow Homer.
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Art & Ale Window features dual show
Acrylic pour artist Joy Bennett Roberts and work from Wicked Illustrations student artists are featured in a dual show on display this month in the Gritty’s Art and Ale Window in Auburn. Roberts is primarily a self-taught artist. She gained some early art experience through the public education system as a teenager and took a […]