WISCASSET Samplers, silk embroideries, watercolors and furniture created by young women in 18th and early 19th century America were often made in the classrooms and were often the first — and sometimes only — step in a girl’s education. Collector Bill Gemmill will focus on examples of Maine schoolgirl art in a winter lecture series […]

WEEK OF SUN, FEB. 14 ARIES Mar. 21 – Apr. 20 Your sense of practicality comes to the forefront this week. You want to get down to business, and your no-nonsense attitude will shine. TAURUS Apr. 21 – May 21 This is a great week to be yourself without feeling the crunch of deadlines or […]

HALLOWELL February’s Second Sunday event, Paper Jewelry lead by visual artists Margo Ogden and Claudia Brahms, will take place on Valentines Day, Sunday, from 2-4 p.m. Folded, cut, woven, and sewn decorated paper can be made into lightweight and unusual jewelry. Come and explore these techniques and create necklaces, bracelets and earrings. This event is […]

BRUNSWICK Bowdoin International Music Festival is currently accepting applications for the 9th Annual Composition Competition. The 2016 competition is for works written for string quartet (2 violins, viola, violoncello). To be eligible composers must be students living within the United States and be under the age of 35. The selected work will be premiered during […]

BRUNSWICK What leads someone down the path to becoming a professional musician? What is it that inspires practice, patience, and perfectionism? These are all questions touched on in Beneath the Music; an interview series examining a life in music. In this interview, we sit down with violist and Maine native, Teal Vickery. Bowdoin International Music […]

DAMARISCOTTA Waldoboro artist Audrey Bechler is leaving Maine, a place she has loved for more than 50 years. Before she does, she will show and sell as much of her accumulated works of art as she can. Savory Maine Restaurant in Damariscotta is exhibiting more than 30 of her acrylic paintings through March 21. While […]

BRUNSWICK “Elise Ansel: Distant Mirrors” features a group of nine paintings and seven drawings by Portland-based artist Elise Ansel that she created for this exhibition. The exhibition is on view in the BCMA’s Markell Gallery through April 17. Ansel drew inspiration for the works from a late Renaissance devotional painting, Denys Calvaert’s “Annunciation,” part of […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has announced the launch of the museum’s first online scholarly catalogue, “Art Treasures, Gracefully Drawn: James Bowdoin III and America’s Earliest Drawing Collection.” The catalogue highlights the 141 old master drawings assembled by the founder of Bowdoin College, James Bowdoin III, whose bequest to the College in 1811 […]

PORTLAND Over the past 40 years, Maine-based artist Duncan Hewitt has been transforming often- overlooked domestic items — such as forks, pot lids, and windshields — into enigmatic objects. Visitors can engage with these sculptures during the artist’s first major solo exhibition, “Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange,” the latest in the PMA’s Circa series of exhibitions […]

LEWISTON The Gendron Franco Center, on the corner of Cedar and Oxford streets in Lewiston, will host its second annual Super Bowl Party on Sunday starting at 4 p.m. This is a family-friendly event with a cash bar, a menu of food items on sale at the Heritage Clubhouse Café, prize raffles from many local […]