A Canadian airline was to fly the 19 people to Toronto late Saturday.
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.
Rockland celebrates the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Millay Arts and Poetry Festival will be Sept. 7-9.
Bodies in water are the subject of Camden painter’s solo show
Jessica Lee Ives explored the state’s swimming holes to create her latest series, on view in Ellsworth.
Play about Portland’s panhandling debate takes the stage
Snowlion Rep’s season features three plays set in Maine, including ‘Anything Helps God Bless’ and an adaptation of ‘The Cherry Orchard.’
Maine artist makes what may be the world’s largest watercolor
Barbara Prey’s studies of her painting, which was commissioned by MASS MoCA, are on display in Port Clyde.
Stone exhibition in Boothbay presents artists at work
A dozen carvers will make sculpture as part of a live exhibit about the history of stone and quarrying in Maine.
Maine artists head to the Arctic in search of a new frontier
Alarmed by a changing climate and eager to tell stories, photographers, painters, songwriters and others go north.
Living with Lyme disease, a Brunswick artist saves his energy for his art
James Graham is often tired and riddled with pain, and expresses his frustrations and joy in gestural, abstract paintings.
Symposium at Colby explores artists’ role in land conservation
Artists and scholars will speak at the conference Thursday and Friday in Waterville about how art has helped preserve land throughout America, including in Maine.
Fascination leads to house recreated, life imagined for author Jane Goodrich
After rebuilding the home of Boston philanthropist George Nixon Black, the Maine writer creates a story about him in her new novel, ‘The House at Lobster Cove.’