Jeremy Frey, a Passamaquoddy artist, and Indigenous cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce both received the $800,000 award.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Rockland Public Library to host spooky film screenings
The library is celebrating Halloween all October long and will screen two scary movies.
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See these films around Maine to take you through October
Classics, comedies and festival offerings are among the movies you can see on big screens this month.
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In ‘Verity & Perpetua,’ plenty of literary references alongside big ideas
In the latest novel by Agnes Bushell, two young women try to figure out their mysterious pasts.
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Read the poem ‘Slack Tide,’ by Matthew Bernier
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Portland sculptor’s show at USM Gorham goes for an artful walk
’20 Walks: Lin Lisberger’ shows off the artist’s skills as a carver as she turns personal experiences into wood sculptures.
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Bestsellers: ‘If I Built a Town’ and ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Can an ancient practice answer life’s questions? This Mainer says so. | Column
Sandi Isgro, of Stratton, is president of the American Society of Dowsers and recently taught a beginner class on the controversial method for finding water, among other things.
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This year’s CMCA biennial spans 97 works by 29 artists with ties to Maine
The show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland features artists who range from emerging to experienced.
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Meet some giant Maine skeletons and the humans behind them
These people take Halloween decorating up a notch with 12-foot-high bundles of bones, which became a viral sensation several years ago.