To borrow a phrase from Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Midcoast-based music promoter/talent buyer Angus Webster is “still searching…
Art
Wiscasset just keeps getting better. Red's Eats has long made the town a destination for a good lobster roll, and there are other eating establishments and shops in the small downtown area to keep…
Yvette Torres Fine Art opens the 2016 season on Saturday, May 28 with a solo exhibit of paintings by Francis Grant, “A Painting Is Something You Cannot Do,” May 28-June 26.
The opening…
For Anne Alexander, joining Stable Gallery is a “return to childhood roots.” In years past, Anne would visit the gallery every summer with her…
The Harlow Gallery has announced the award-winning artists for Art2016, the 21st annual juried art show on view at the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in Hallowell now through June 18.
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Mobius Inc. is inviting the public is to the opening reception for its Spring Art Show on Thursday, May 12 from 2-5 p…
At the Theaters This Week ...
The Harbor Theatre
“The Jungle Book” Raised by a family of wolves since birth, Mowgli (Neel Sethi) must leave the only home he's ever known when the fearsome tiger…
My day became more than complete when Peter Wolf called to discuss his latest venture on disc called “A Cure for Loneliness” (released by Concord Records: April 8), …
The Pemaquid Craft Co-op has been named “Best Craft Co-op” in Yankee Magazine’s Best of New England Editors’ Choice Awards for 2016.
The co-operative artisan shop, located at 2565 Bristol…
Celebrate local art at Rising Tide! Join us Friday, May 6 from 4-6 p.m. for our monthly celebration of art, community and good wine. This month’s Art at the Co-op exhibit will feature work from…
The Kefauver Studio & Gallery, Damariscotta, is calling for 12 artists to participate in the “Small Gifts from the Coast” show, running May 28 through June 26. An artists’…
Sally Giddings Smith has taken her art halfway around the world from Maine to the Big Sur in California to Paris and back to East Boothbay. She currently shows her work from the Fortunate Chance…
Portland artist Cathleen Mahan's exhibition, “Foreign Bodies,” will be displayed at River Arts Gallery West through May 9.
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A new exhibit bursting with vibrant color opens Monday, May 2 as part of The Art at The Damariscotta River Grill series. Compelling photographic flower studies by Lisa Mossel Vietze and dynamic…
College Guild (CG) in Brunswick will present student-prisoner poetry, artwork and testimonials, along with an overview of this unique school on Thursday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at the Patten Free…
She paints every minute she can.
Every day.
And when East Boothbay artist Andrea Peters paints, the channeled energy of her subject is transferred the second Peters' paint brush makes…
The public is invited to attend the opening reception for the River Arts’ “Flower Show” from 5-7 pm on Friday, April 22. Over 115 works are available for viewing in an exhibition that runs through…
Metalsmith Anita Roelz is motivated by two strong forces. First, to advance her art and second to support her partner, Pamela Creamer, in her struggle against Lyme disease.
Circle Stone…
Head Tide
Richard Plunkett likes to kick off the winter cobwebs each year with an open house event at The Wizard of Odds and Ends at historic Head Tide Village. This year’s happening and season opener will…
Maine Pottery Tour, a non-profit collective of potters throughout Maine, have once again joined together to celebrate ceramics by opening their studios to visitors on April 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.…
The Maine Photography Show
To say the Maine Photography Show awards event on April 8 was extremely well attended would be an understatement.
There had to have been 100…
There's a new flower shop in Wiscasset. It's small in stature, but full of a variety of gift items and greeting cards, as well as houseplants and fresh flowers for a…
The Miles Memorial Hospital League Art Committee is delighted to accept a significant gift to its hospital art collection. Damariscotta artist Bertil Whyman, and his wife Amelia,…
Artists are invited to submit work for jurying into the River Arts “Flowers” Exhibition. Artists are encouraged to submit up to three works in any…
The opening reception for the Lincoln Academy Student Art Exhibition at River Arts was held on March 31. This exhibit will showcase ceramics and sculpture, complemented by two-dimensional pieces…
After moving out of their shop in Damariscotta in November, Cara and Michael Gaffney have relocated. They took over the new retail space on the street level of 8 Wharf Street, Boothbay Harbor in…
11th annual Maine Photography Show
Sponsored by Boothbay Region Art Foundation, the Maine Photography Show (MPS) opens to the public at 11 a.m. on April 9 running through May 6.
The 105 images in the show were…
A preserve of Maine Coast Heritage Trust
ROCKPORT — Maine Coast Heritage Trust invites students in grades third-twelfth to submit an original poster design for Aldermere Farm's…
Newcastle Local Planning Committee
Newcastle’s Local Planning Committee has finalized its plans for a mid-spring extravaganza that will encourage residents to come out and participate in the development of the town’s comprehensive…
You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy the “Free Expression Art” workshop being offered by Maine Media Women on Saturday, April 9. This hands-on workshop will be…
Savory Maine Restaurant in Damariscotta presents artist Pam Cabañas in a solo exhibition March 23 through May 2. An opening reception is planned for Friday…
At the Theaters
The Harbor Theatre
“Brooklyn” Set in the early 1950s, this film tells the story of a young Irish woman's immigration to New York, where she quickly falls into a…
Barters Island artist Brenda Bettinson has sought the transcendent in art all of her life — and it could be said she has also sought it in her personal life as well.
Her search for the…
Artist and illustrator Thomas Block will be showing a collection of selected works at the First Federal Savings Bank at 41 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor.
Watercolor, pencil on graphite…
The works of three local artists - Ruth Monsell, Judy Nixon and Pamela Logan - are currently gracing the walls of Atlantic Motorcar (AMC) until June.
Pamela Logan has been a photographer for…
Miles Memorial Hospital is pleased to present “Facials: Recent Collage Portraits” by Phoebe Nichols on view March 19 through May 6.…
A new exhibit of local artists, Julia Nichols and Brooke Pacy, opens March 22 as part of The Art at The Damariscotta River Grill series. An opening to meet the artists will be held on Wednesday,…
Joe Norton has been building walls for around 12 years. They're not the kind of walls that keep people out. In fact they do just the opposite. Their artful beauty draws people in.
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The Pemaquid Group of Artists is announcing a call for artists for the 2016 season to exhibit at the Pemaquid Art Gallery at Lighthouse Park.
Interested artists…
Atlantic Motorcar Center offers 2,000 square feet of space to local artists
Chances are if you were playing a game of Family Feud and the question was: “What do you expect to see on the walls of the waiting room at a car dealership?” the winning answer might be “car…
The Boothbay Region Community Center recently provided classes in the art form of Ukrainian egg-decorating.
Known as “…
Richard Boyd Art Gallery located on Peaks Island in Portland, Maine opens the month of March with an annual exhibition of art works in black and white. Although color is evident in some of the…
Skidompha Public Library will be filled with the quilts of quilt maker/fiber artist Janet B. Elwin in March and April. Little Quilts will be displayed in the Carey Gallery with a collection of…
The public is invited to an artist's reception and wine tasting on Friday, March 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. The event will be at the Rising Tide Community Market in Damariscotta to kick off a month long…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) will debut the 2016 Membership Art Show on Friday, Feb. 26, with a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Guests can meet artists…
It's time to prepare for the 14th Annual Festival of Art for Senior College at Belfast. All Maine artists, aged 50 and over, amateur or professional, can submit artwork for the show running June 9…
A new art exhibit by Maine artist Léa Peterson opens this week at the Miles Memorial Hospital Hall Gallery in Damariscotta. This show runs through March 18.
Petersonʼs paintings have been…
River Arts in Damariscotta is inviting the public to the opening reception of its newest exhibition “Faces and Figures” Friday, Feb. 19 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition includes 120 works in a wide…
