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The Tao of Painting I and II Offered by Linda Packard

The Intuitive Painting Workshops Begin in March

(Bangor, ME) Bangor artist Linda Packard will offer workshops designed for painters who are interested in freeing themselves from recording information to work in a more intuitive, expressive way, developing a dialog with one’s painting. According to Packard who has offered this workshop before, “This does not mean one has to work abstractly. Representational work evolves intuitively as well. The workshop is designed to help conquer one’s fears in art-making: fear of failure, judgment, or imperfection. Let go of the rules. Work from the heart.”

(Image: Painting by Linda Packard)

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Maine Art Galleries
Image “Organic Observations” at Old Salts Gallery   (Image: " Prospect Hill Blueberry Barren" by Nancy Desmond) (Camden, ME) Old Salts Gallery of Camden opens the month of February with a group show featuring contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums. Please join us for a reception at 25 Mechanic Street on the corner of Mechanic and Washington Stre...
Editor´s Movie Picks
Image Urbanized (View Trailer)   USA. 85 minutes. Not rated. Urbanized (the third part of Gary Hustwit’s design film trilogy, joining Helvetica and Objectified) is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, plann...
 
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Artists Openings/Exhibits
Image Stuff Moves: Exhibit of Maine Kinetic Sculptor Kim Bernard   (Image: "Quantum Revival" Kinetic Sculpture by Kim Bernard) (Boston, MA) Boston Sculptors Gallery is pleased to announce Stuff Moves, a solo exhibition of Maine artist Kim Bernard’s recent kinetic sculptures. Fascinated with movement, kinesthetics and the basic laws of motion, Bernard’s kinetic s...
 
Maine Artist Interview
Image Interview with David Graeme Baker   (Image: "Vacationland Study" by David Graeme Baker) Maine artist David Graeme Baker was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of both Wesleyan University in Connecticut and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 2000, he and his wife Sarah moved...
Maine Call to Artists
Image Waterfall Arts Issues Open Call for Cardboard Art Exhibit   (Image: "Universe (Boxed)" by Karen MacDonald) (Belfast, ME) Waterfall Arts invites artists of all ages to contribute artwork for an upcoming show titled Corrugation Nation. The show will run from April 6th until May 18th, with a closing party on Friday, May 18th that will include a raffle of several of the ...
 
Maine Art Classes
Image Artist Linda Packard Offers Intuitive Painting Workshops   (Image: Painting by Linda Packard) (Bangor, ME) Bangor artist Linda Packard will offer workshops designed for painters who are interested in freeing themselves from recording information to work in a more intuitive, expressive way, developing a dialog with one’s painting. According to Packard who has offered thi...
 
Maine Arts Organizations News
Image Waterfall Arts Awarded NEA Grant   (Belfast, ME) Waterfall Arts has been selected to receive one of the 162 grants of $10,000 awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts to organizations in 46 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman has noted, “Art works ever...
Special Arts Events
Click on Link below to watch video Kenny Cole's “As High As Heaven” Project Seeks Funding   View Video (Monroe, ME) Kenny Cole has recently been selected to participate in a new online community of American artists called USA Projects, the creation of United States Artists to expand its mission of investing in America’s finest contemporary artists. You can join this community and help it grow! Cole ha...
 
Maine Artist Spaces for Rent
Image Gallery Spaces for Rent at The Galleries at Morning Walk (Kennebunk, ME) The Galleries at Morning Walk on Port Road in Kennebunk has eight individual cottage-style gallery spaces for rent. Inclusion in Morning Walk is a juried process to ensure a complimentary array of work and is only open to fine artists and artisans. This Atlantic Holdings development is a short walk to Kennebunk...
Maine Theater Performances
Image Next Fall   (Portland, ME) Through February 19th. The Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of Geoffry Nauffts' recent Tony Award nominee for Best Play. NEXT FALL takes a witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love and goes beyond a typical love story. This timely and compelling new American play fo...
 
Maine Art Museum Exhibits
Image Maine Historical Society: Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Identity in Maine   (Portland, ME) The exhibit runs through May 27, 2012. This exhibit takes a fascinating look at how Mainers have "dressed up" for a variety of occasions over two hundred years. Drawing from MHS's extensive collections, Dressing Up, Fitting In, Standing Out: Adornment & Identity in Maine, 1750-1950 features...
Maine Authors
Image Satan’s Scourge by Lewis Turco Issued in e-book Kindle Edition   (Dresden Mills, ME) Lewis Putnam Turco’s book titled Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, winner of the Wild Card category of the 2009 New England Book Festival, has just been issued in a 2012 e-book Kindle edition, SatansScourge-ebook/1 by its publishe...
 
Maine Art Lectures
Image Historical Garden Design: Lecture by Photographer Terry Hire   (Belfast, ME) Terry Hire will be the guest speaker on Tuesday, February 7th at 6:30 pm in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Public Library for a lecture and slide show on historical design including Victorian, Formalism, Naturalism, into Edwardian gardens, and how those designs impact our gardens today. The event is co-s...
Special Screenings
Image Abbot Meader's Deep Trout Screening in Waterville   (Waterville, ME) There will be a screening of Abbott Meader's Deep Trout at the Common Street Gallery in Waterville on Saturday, February 11th at 7:00 pm. Abbot Meader's Deep Trout Trilogy is a "magical, tragi-comical Western adventure film” made in collaboration with the late artist Walter Easton. Meader is...
 
Maine Concerts
Image Jasper String Quartet in Concert   (Orono, ME) On February 12th at 3:00 pm at the Minsky Recital Hall. Presented by the Collins Center for the Arts. The Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as "sonically delightful and expressively compelling" (The Strad) and as having "played with sparkling vitality and great verve .. They are polished,...
Art and Health
Image Alzheimer’s Disease: Painting the Journey (Image: "News Travels" by Donna Beveridge) New watercolorist Donna Beveridge paints the reality of living with Alzheimer’s disease. Speaking volumes with her watercolors, applying blues and purples – her favorites – as well as yellows and greens in her “communicative process” Beveridge ...
 
Maine Art Jobs and Resumes
Resume Posting: Shannon Hunter Thibodeau   Shannon Hunter Thibodeau 8 Marion Street Portland, ME 04101 sthibo21@gmail.com | (603) 667-7568 OBJECTIVE: To serve as a leader in a creative work environment where my skills are valued and I am challenged to broaden my experience. EDUCATION: B.A. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (2008) QUALIFICATION...
Maine Open Studios
Image New Studio for Belfast Artist Marc Leavitt   (Belfast, ME) The public is invited to the first opening of Marc Leavitt's art studio at 153 High Street (upstairs), Belfast, Maine on Friday, November 4th from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Represented by Galerie Swanstrom (Newbury and Thayer Streets in Boston) for 5 years, whose owner named Marc Leavitt her "Biggest Success...
 
Maine Arts Commission News
Image Artwork Portraying History of Maine’s Logging Industry Exhibited   (Image: "Landing the Pulp Onto the Ice" by Alden Grant) (Augusta, ME) The Maine Arts Commission is proud to announce that 19 paintings by Alden Grant are now on display in the State of Maine Capitol Complex as part of the agency’s Art in the Capitol program. The exhibit of work depicting life in Maine...
 
Maine Literature
Image Nominations Open for Maine Literary Awards   (Portland, ME) The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) has opened the 2012 Maine Literary Awards for nominations. Entries will be accepted until March 1st and the winners will be announced live on May 31st. In addition, the MWPA is pleased to announce four new categories in the Book Awards this year: the Joh...
Marketing the Arts in Maine
Image Custom Museum Publishing Releases New “American Coastal Art” Catalog   (Rockland, ME) Custom Museum Publishing in Rockland announces a new catalog just off the press this fall for Gleason Fine Art. This 239-page catalog entitled, “American Coastal Art” represents a private collection by Charles J. and Irene Hamm. As mentioned in the forward by the Hamms, “We all know tha...
 

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