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Augusta officials look to ban hate-speech and other offensive materials from buildings in public view
City councilors cold to proposal to regulate murals, but direct city attorney to recommend changes to city regulations to ensure hate symbols and other offensive images or words can’t be placed on building walls visible to the public.
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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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Paintings by Abby Bernard on display in hospital gallery
The paintings of Abby Bernard are on display for the month of August in the Woman’s Hospital Association Rotating Art Gallery at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. From the time she started drawing as a child, Bernard “loved to create and pursue the joy I found within the borders of my imagination.” During her […]
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Call for artists announced by UMF Art Gallery
The UMF Art Gallery announces a call for artists for the 2024 “Abandoned Industry” exhibition, showcasing art in any medium by artists based in northern New England. Maine is marked physically and poetically by its working past. This exhibition will explore evidence of industry in any of its definitions to question how visual culture and […]
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Painter Andree Benoist joins Gallery 302
Andree Benoist is a watercolor artist who discovered painting later in life. Born and raised on the coast of New Jersey, water and boats have been attractive subjects for her. Since spending most of her time now in the foothills of the White Mountains in Cornish, rural life appears frequently in her work as do […]
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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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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 […]
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Photos: Follow local artists’ 4-year process to create, install ‘The Hallowell Mural’
Back in July 2019, Hallowell artists Christopher Cart and Jen Greta Cart worked together in City Hall improvising a compass with a tape measure and pencil to draw a large circle on the 700 square feet of canvas sections taped together that would guide the composition of his Hallowell mural project. All photos by Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal.
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Norway church to host art exhibit
An art exhibit and sale will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, July 7, and from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, in the concert hall of the The First Universalist Church of Norway. The event will feature nine local artists and a wide variety of artistic media. A special highlight of the […]