The final Wiscasset Art Walk of the 2024 season is from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26. Enjoy the Village collection of galleries, shops, a variety of food stops including MAZU food truck and lots of sidewalk activities. Village galleries continue their exhibitions, and live music accompanies the art. Shops introduce their new seasonal wares. Local […]
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United Way of Mid Coast Maine launches community fundraising campaign
United Way of Mid Coast Maine is launching its annual fundraising campaign Wednesday, Sept. 18, with the goal to raise $1.5 million for the United Way of Mid Coast Maine Community Fund. The campaign supports the work of United Way of Mid Coast Maine and 50 local programs and initiatives to help give kids the […]
New exhibition at Sylvan Gallery shows works from Italy to Maine
Sylvan Gallery opened a new exhibition Tuesday, featuring paintings by Stan Moeller of York. The show runs through Oct. 13 with a reception from 4-7 p.m. on Sept. 26, coinciding with the evening of the Wiscasset Art Walk. The subjects of Moeller’s latest paintings demonstrate the range of his skills and interests, encompassing paintings from […]
Maine Art Gallery’s last exhibition of the season embraces nocturne theme
Autumn, with its waning light, is a perfect time to display fine art that portrays evening or night. For its last exhibition of the 2024 season, the Maine Art Gallery chose autumn to present the work of more than 55 current Maine artists and several of their predecessors who set about to capture the magical […]
Join Sheepscot Chorus in rehearsals for December holiday concert
Sheepscot Chorus welcomes new singers as it begins rehearsals for its Boothbay Harbor holiday concert, featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The First Nowell,” performed with professional soloists and chamber orchestra. Rehearsals are at 7 p.m. Tuesdays starting on Sept. 10 at First Congregational Church in Wiscasset, and the concert is Dec. 1. “I look forward to […]
Midcoast launches 100+ Women Who Care chapter
Local women unite to bolster area nonprofits.
Lincoln County artists’ work on display at Maine Art Gallery
New works by Lincoln County artists are among the oils, watercolors, collages, photography, prints and sculptures on exhibit in the Maine Art Gallery’s current show, “Made in Maine.” The Wiscasset gallery includes works by Kathy Bouchard of Newcastle, Carol Wiley of Newcastle and Irene Plummer of East Boothbay. Wiscasset’s historic Academy building, which is home […]
Wiscasset Bay Gallery opens new exhibition including ‘Four Centuries’ of art
A new exhibition at Wiscasset Bay Gallery, “Four Centuries of American, Latin American and European Art,” will open Thursday, Aug. 29, coinciding with Wiscasset Art Walk. The exhibition will be on display through Sept. 25. Of particular interest is a large oil by contemporary El Salvadoran artist, Santiago Beltran Valladares, “Que Mas Hay” (What Else […]
Floral installation to grace Wiscasset sidewalks next Art Walk
Chicken wire, sticks and dried hydrangeas put to an artful purpose are the tools of the trade for dried floral designer Maria Salcines. During Wiscasset Art Walk Thursday, Aug. 29, Salcines will install a cascading arrangement of dried florals in Wiscasset Village. Although much planning will have gone into the presentation, Salcines will be improvising […]
Wiscasset Set for Success event helps prep students for upcoming year
Wiscasset community project Feed Our Scholars saw a turnout of 400 attendees, including 150 students and their families, at its Set for Success event on Aug. 11 at the Wiscasset Community Center. Now in its sixth year, Set for Success stated out as a relatively small supply drive for grades pre-K to five. Last year, […]