Chinese Ink Drawing & Calligraphy With Lesia Sochor
(Belfast, ME) During February break, popular instructor Lesia Sochor will be teaching a Chinese Ink Drawing & Calligraphy course at Waterfall Arts in Belfast. Students ages 8 to 12 will learn about the ancient art of Chinese painting and character making. The characters in Chinese calligraphy are over 4,000 years old and believed to be the oldest writing system in the world. Students will practice this ancient and beautiful art form while painting plum blossoms, pandas, mountains and more. Students will paint on rice paper and traditional long scrolls with bamboo brushes and will learn to grind ink on a suzuri with an ink stick.
(Image: “Panda” courtesy of Lesia Sochor)
Michael Bell-Smith at the ICA at MECA
(Image: Video Loop by Mike Bell-Smith “Return to Forever”. Courtesy of Foxy Production, New York)
(Portland, ME) Through April 8th. Maine native Bell-Smith’s rigorously constructed lo-fi environments are immediately recognizable to those familiar with the history of personal computers or home gaming ...
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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For $95 per year, Maine artists or arts organization can have a personalized webpage on maineartscene.com. This service is for those who do not have a website, can't afford a full-fledged website or for those who want to increase their visibility by taking advantage of the website tr...
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...
Matthew Russ: Interview with a Native Maine Painter
(Image: "Great Pond from Jamaica Point" by Matthew Russ)
Matthew Russ was born in Portland, Maine and earned a B.A. from Colby College where he majored in studio art with a concentration in oil painting. He always paints from life, working outdoors in all seasons, and often backpacking into remote locations....
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Waterfall Arts in Belfast Sunday Jazz Jam
(Belfast, ME) On Sunday, January 22nd from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Fall Out Shelter Performance Space at Waterfall Arts, there will be the Come Sunday Jazz Jam, featuring a hot and steady rhythm section and musicians from around Waldo County and the mid-coast.
Sunday the 22nd is the fourth Sunday in a very special Janu...
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 ...
SINGULAR Opens at Pace Gallery, Fryeburg Academy Performing Arts Center
(Image: Clothespins, 1993©Rose Marasco. All Rights Reserved.)
(Portland, ME) Ten of Maine's fine art photographers will be strutting their stuff through March 19th in SINGULAR, opening Saturday at the Palmina S. and Stephen F. Pace Galleries of Art at Fryeburg Academy in Fryeburg, Maine. The opening reception is ...
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- Addition to VoxPhotographs Portfolio in 2012
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- Holiday Cards Available From Photographer Marcie Jan Bronstein
- Bangor Metro Magazine Features Beth Anne Gordley
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- Terry Hire Launches Website Featuring His Fine Art Photography
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Uncommon Words Poetry at Common Street Gallery
(Image: Patrick Donnelly)
(Waterville, ME) On Friday, January 27th at 7:00 pm, Common Street Gallery in Waterville will host a reading by poets Patrick Donnelly, Rachel Contreni Flynn, and Dawn Potter. The authors’ books will be available for sale and signing, and a reception will follow the reading.
About Pat...
Chinese Ink Drawing & Calligraphy With Lesia Sochor at Waterfall Arts
(Image: “Panda” courtesy of Lesia Sochor)
(Belfast, ME) During February break, popular instructor Lesia Sochor will be teaching a Chinese Ink Drawing & Calligraphy course at Waterfall Arts in Belfast. Students ages 8 to 12 will learn about the ancient art of Chinese painting and character making. The...
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...
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Online Artist Portfolios Workshop
(Freeport, ME) As part of the Freeport Creative Arts Feeding Creativity Conversation Series on Monday, January 30th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Freeport Community Center. Steve Milligan, Technology Associate from the Maine Arts Commission, will be conducting a workshop centered around online artist portfolios. Steve ha...
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...
Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation
(Brunswick, ME) Presented by The Theater Project of Brunswick, performances run through February 19th. When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty's six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and wo...
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...
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...
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...
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony
(Portland, ME) On Sunday, January 29th at 2:30 pm at the Merrill Auditorium with Dmitry Sitkovestsky, guest conductor and violin. Embark on a musical journey around the world, starting with a lighthearted overture set in Spain and ending with a beloved symphony that fairly sings “viva Italia!” In between, t...
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 ...
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...
2012 Fellowship Awardees Announced by Maine Arts Commission
(Augusta, ME) The Maine Arts Commission today announced the recipients of the 2012 Artists’ Fellowship Awards – one of the nation's highest awards for individual artists made by a state arts agency. The four recipients will each receive a $13,000 grant award.
This year’s four Fellows are Allen Lowe f...
Stone Mountain Arts Center Presents Aimee Mann
(Brownfield, ME) On Wednesday, January 18th at 8:00 pm. Grammy award winning songwriter, singer, bassist, former front gal for 80's Boston based band Till Tuesday (remember "Voices Carry"?). But recently she has written some of the most poignant music of our decade....her work in the movie "Magnolia"...
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(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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