Art

Boothbay Harbor Fest

Carlton Plummer, professor emeritus of UMass at Lowell, will be juror for A Stroke of Art, a new multi-day event of the Boothbay Harbor Fest. This major art happening is a celebration of the…

Will Kefauver

Will Kefauver, of the Kefauver Studio & Gallery, is an award-winning oil painter specializing in landscapes. He returned to painting after many years in the publishing industry as an…

Gleason Fine Art
Andrea Peters’ “The Old Tree in Summer”

Beginning Thursday, Sept. 3, “A Season of Color: Paintings by Andrea Peters and Tom Curry” opens at Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor. The public is cordially invited to the opening reception on…

Paula Ragsdale

Studio 53 Fine Art of Boothbay Harbor presents a group show of over 30 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) alumni and faculty artists opening Sept. 2.

A casual meet and greet will be held…

Eric Minzner

“New Beginnings,” the theme of the show opening on Sept. 4, represents different steps in each of the five artists whose work will be featured for the…

Laura McCabe’s “Duo-Plicity”

Internationally-recognized bead artist and teacher Laura McCabe will be in Boothbay Harbor Sept. 25 through 27, to teach three full-day workshops as part of the first-ever Harborside…

Highlighting fine art in the Boothbay region

Boothbay Harbor

BOOTHBAY REGION ART FOUNDATION

1 Townsend Avenue

First Friday reception: 5 to 7 p.m. with refreshments and live music…

River Arts Gallery

Artists are invited to submit up to three pieces for jurying. Work can be entered anytime up until Sept. 5 at 4 p.m.

All work entered must be for sale. Wall-hung work size maximum: 60 inches…

Bijl Aart “Holland in Winter”

The sidewalks of the village will be pulsing with music and dance during the Wiscasset Art Walk from…

“Sowing the seeds of Creation,” 32”x 42”, Doug Gimbel

Layers of color and imagery meld into an energetic vibe in Doug Gimbel's exhibition “Yellow,” now on display at Alison Evans Ceramics in Boothbay Harbor.

Gimbel’s series, “Yellow,” focuses…

Pastel by Rebecca Yates Shorb

The Lincoln Home welcomes Rebecca Yates Shorb as the featured Twin Village ArtWalk artist Friday, Aug. 21, from 4-7 p.m. Meet the artist at the opening reception, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., enjoy…

Nina Fuller “The Gathering”

A special feature of photographic images, “Celebrating the Year of the Sheep” by Nina Fuller, will open on Thursday, Aug. 27 at Sylvan Gallery in Wiscasset. The reception with the photographer…

Join art instructor Kathi Nordone at Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center on Aug. 28 from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. for an introductory drawing and sketching…

Joe Orchulli II

Joe Orchulli has “the eye.”

When Orchulli worked at the Boothbay Register, his photographs consistently brought the paper top honors from the Maine Press Association and the New England…

Kefauver Studio & Gallery
Kim Traina

Kefauver Studio & Gallery is the venue for the 2nd annual Guests on the Lawn Friday, Aug. 14, through Sunday, Aug. 16, from 10 a.m…

Artist Shannon Smith

The art of plein air painting has beckoned artists outdoors with paints, palettes, and canvas to capture a scene or a place as they see, and experience it, for centuries.

And it is a form of…

Ronald Frontin

Ingram Fine Art in Wiscasset will open a unique exhibition featuring Maine artist Ronald Frontin on Aug. 27, on view through September. “The Art of Ronald Frontin” will feature nearly 30 works by…

British sculptor Barry Baldwin

Master of stone, bronze, and the human form, Barry Baldwin’s sculptures are on public exhibit in London, Cardiff, Manchester, Hamburg and California.

Major clients over the past decades have…

Hilary E. Bartlett

Local artist Hilary E. Bartlett is exhibiting her art work at the First Federal Savings and Loan in Boothbay Harbor through October.

Bartlett’s representational watercolors reflect her love…

Lincoln Arts Festival’s annual boatyard art show and sale, Arts & Yachts, opens Thursday evening, Aug. 20, with a Gala Artists’ Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The event continues Friday Aug. 21…

Alan Braley, “The Sentinel”

Artist Alan Braley will be at Studio 53 in Boothbay Harbor to talk about his artistic process and methodology behind his latest body of work called “Mending Fences,” on Tuesday, Aug. 18 at 2 p.m.…

Maine College of Art

Thomas Moser’s importance to the world of craftsmanship and fine furniture is now celebrated and examined at Maine College of Art’s (MECA) Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) retrospective, “Thos…

“Guests on the Lawn” art sale event brings an eclectic selection of artists together on the lawns and under the tents of the Bristol Road collaboration of artists on Aug. 14-16 in Damariscotta.…

Join art instructor Kathi Nordone at Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center, 521 Main St., Damariscotta for an introductory drawing and sketching classes. All you will need is a pencil and…

Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Nathan Campbell

It takes just two words to define Boothbay Region Art Foundation’s (BRAF) August show: impressive and respected.

The show, which features 125 artists, opens with a reception on Friday, Aug.…

John Lorence

River Arts invites the public to the opening reception for its newest juried exhibition “Mainly Maine,” and for Sarah Wilde's solo show, “Wilde Art,” at River Arts West, on Friday, Aug. 7 from 5…

Studio 53 Fine Art
John M.T. Seitzer

Ancient writing tablets were hinged together to form diptychs. Hinged altar pieces of the early Middle Ages allowed for traveling works of sacred art, a physical focus for faithful followers.…

Abbey Ryan

Gleason Fine Art will host a reception for three new shows: “Henry Isaacs: Working Color," "Carole Hanson: Stone and Sea," and "Abbey Ryan: New Still Lifes,” on Friday, Aug. 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. All…

Maine artist Kris Engman will exhibit her paintings at Savory Maine Restaurant in Damariscotta from July 30 to Sept. 7. Although Engman’s artistic focus was as a sculptor for twenty-five years,…

Albert Rosenbloom’s “Contemplation”

“Belgian, French, Dutch and American Impressionism” will open at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery on Saturday, Aug. 8. Impressionist views of the Netherlands, Paris and New York will be exhibited…

Debra Arter

Damariscotta artist Debra Arter's paintings, prints and collages is on display in the lobby of The First, N.A. Bank in Boothbay Harbor through the end of September. The artwork presented has Maine…

Sculpture from the estate of Whitefield artist Roger Majorowicz will be sold at auction on Saturday, Aug. 1. The internationally known and Maine revered artist died at Christmas time last year at…

A new show opens on July 24 at Saltwater Artists Gallery featuring six artists, Mary Buergin, Kay Miller, Marcia Brandwein, Sandra Griffin, Carol Wiley…

Sarah Greenier

Sarah Greenier of Bath and Hannah Ineson of Damariscotta are the featured summer artists through Sept. 8 at Mae’s Café & Bakery, located at 160 Centre Street in Bath.

Both artists are…

On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1 and 2, the Boothbay Railway Village will host its first ever art exhibit inside the museum’s 1847 Boothbay Town Hall. The exhibit of works by world-renowned…

The work of Wiscasset Assemblage artist, John Sideli, is to be featured at the Mid-Week Antiques Show in Concord, New Hampshire, Aug. 2 and 3 in an exhibit and sale titled “The Sum of The Parts…

Harbor Fest

The first-ever Plein Air Painting invitational in Boothbay Harbor and around the peninsula will be held Sept. 7-13 The event has been added as a Harbor Fest highlight and will feature a week of…

Will Kefauver

Artist Will Kefauver’s art show, “Field, Forest, and Shore — Works in Oil by Will Kefauver,” opens on Saturday, July 25, at the Hall Gallery at the Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta. The…

Boothbay Region Art Foundation

Remember how much fun coloring was when you were a kid?

Do you ever just sit down and color now? Would you like to?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, the Boothbay…

Call for Art

River Arts in Damariscotta, is inviting artists to submit work — all media, sculpture and fine crafts welcome — for its upcoming “Mainly Maine” Exhibition. Work can be submitted during gallery…

Highlighting fine art in the Boothbay region

Boothbay Harbor

ALISON EVANS CERAMICS — 93 Townsend…

Sarah Wilde will be having a solo show representing all new work at the West Gallery at River Arts July 31 to Aug. 12, with an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 7,…

Art Review
Rebecca Goodale

The frog was the first to catch my eye.

A rather charming frog as frogs go, seated on a lily pad. I followed his gaze upward to a small blue butterfly on the leaf of a plant.

The…

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts welcomes visitors this summer for tours on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. in July and August. During a walk through Watershed’s pastoral campus and 16,000 square foot…

The Island Inn on Monhegan is featuring “Local Color,” an exhibit of oil paintings by Frank Bruckmann, daily now through Oct. 11.

Sally Loughridge’s unique, handcrafted necklaces and earrings are offered at the Kefauver Studio & Gallery, Damariscotta. Loughridge has added a number of new styles, materials, and…

Corinne McIntyre

Ocean Point Studio/Visions of Maine is celebrating its 22ndyear by participating in the First Friday Art Tour on Aug. 7 featuring a new exhibit, “A Midsummer Show.” An open house reception is…

Jessica Ives, “Big Fresh”

An exhibition entitled “Arts and Recreation,” will show new art work by Jessica Ives, Margaret Rizzio and Grant Haynes for two weeks at The Good Supply in Pemaquid.

The public is invited to…

Painting Maine returns on Monday, July 27, for its sixth show at the Damariscotta River Grill.  Whether representational or abstract, the artworks display…

Kathleen Horst

The Kathleen Horst Studio Gallery, Damariscotta, is open for business. Horst spent the winter transforming her garage into a studio and gallery to display her watercolors. She gives credit for the…