Mixed media ‘Lost & Found’ in amphitheater
Aug 17Clio Berta, Camden-raised 2017 Massachusetts College of Art grad, will combine her skills in composition, visual arts and production — and join ...
Midcoast art shows
Current & Coming
By Dagney C. Ernest - Aug 17Abbie Read’s “Library” installation, ground-floor Kramer Gallery of Belfast Free Library, 106 High St. Through Aug. 30. FMI: 338-3884, ext. ...
A Hoy there … and a lot more
By Dagney C. Ernest - Aug 16The 2017 Union Fair & Maine Wild Blueberry Festival runs Saturday through Saturday, Aug. 19 to 26, on the grounds just off Route 17. In addition ...
New staff, fall options at Sweet Tree
Aug 14The nonprofit Sweet Tree Arts is planning a variety of programming for all ages this fall. Weekly afterschool classes will be offered, along with ...
Blanco set for Millay festival
Aug 14Presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco of Bethel will join other literary luminaries at the first-ever Millay Arts & Poetry Festival Thursday ...
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Music, Paint Night at Medomak Arts
Aug 11The summer of community arts events continues at Medomak Arts, 13 Friendship St./Route 220 in the village. The monthly Sunday afternoon jazz ...
Rockland Sculpture Race Aug. 12
Gentlemen (women, boys and girls): start your sculptures!
By Dagney C. Ernest - Aug 08Summertime in the Lime City — art walks and music on Main Street, festivals in Harbor Park … and people-powered sculptures racing around the ...
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Common Ground fair tickets on sale
Aug 08Tickets for the 2017 Common Ground Country Fair are on sale at retail outlets throughout Maine and online through brownpapertickets.com. Fairgoers ...
Sept. 7 through 9 in Rockland
Millay Arts & Poetry fest tickets on sale
Aug 07Tickets are now on sale for the first Millay Arts & Poetry Festival, set for Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 7, 8 and 9, in various city locations...
Arts at Harbor Fest
Under the Tent, into the water
Aug 01The 10th annual Belfast Harbor Fest & Classic Boat Show runs Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, Aug. 18 through 20, at Steamboat Landing and ...
Arts & Entertainment
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Annual Thomaston poetry gala
Aug 17Thomaston Public Library will hold its annual poetry reading gala Tuesday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. The program will be held in the Main Room of the ...
Sgt. Pepper-enhanced ‘Day in the Life’
Aug 16The acclaimed multimedia show “A Day In The Life: A Beatles Experience” returns to the Camden Opera House for two shows only, Saturday and Sunday ...
Open house at Rockport Dance
Aug 16Rockport Dance Conservatory kicks off its 11th year of “raising the barre” in dance education with fall registration open houses in the lobby of ...
Talk, plays in Belfast, Camden
The Science and Art of AI
Aug 16Brothers Grant and David Renier will present a two-part program on AI technology in Belfast and Camden, free and open to the public. The Science ...
Everyman Rep goes 'overseas' with ‘Animals’
Aug 14The Rockport-based Everyman Repertory Theatre’s annual Overseas Tour will bring its dramatic staged reading of Rajiv Joseph’s “Animals out of ...
Experimental dance at NoRo
Aug 09Steel House Projects will present “It May Happen Anyway,” an experimental dance performance, Saturday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m. at NORO Gallery, 16 ...
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Szelogs visit Maine Lighthouse Museum
Aug 17Due to popular demand, the Maine Lighthouse Museum will host Tom and Lee Ann Szelog Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m. and their narrated photography ...
Nappa reveals ‘What Longfellow Heard’
Aug 14Local resident Jon Nappa is celebrating the release of his latest historical fiction novel, “What Longfellow Heard.” The book has been a 12-year ...
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Art Loft student wins in festival show
Aug 17Catharine McCann, who has been studying photography at the Art Loft for several months, taking both group classes and private classes with Karen ...
‘Cushing Canvas’ for Arts in the Barn
Aug 16Cushing artists will show off their work in the final show of the 2017 Arts in the Barn exhibition series. “The Cushing Canvas” will open Friday, ...
Anthony, Rector, Page at Courthouse
Aug 16Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, 6 Court St., presents the two-person exhibition “Janice Anthony and Alison Rector: How the Light Gets In,” plus solo ...
Maine Media opens ‘The Door Between’
Aug 15Maine Media Gallery, 18 Central St., will hold an opening reception for “The Door Between,” featuring work by Valerie Carrigan, Tillman Crane, ...
Local artists ‘Celebrate Maine’ at River Arts
Aug 15River Arts on Route 1 invites the public to the opening reception for its newest show, “Celebrate Maine,” Friday, Aug. 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. ...
‘Three Perspectives’ at Ocean View
Aug 15Three artists, who have painted several weeks each summer in Port Clyde and on Mohegan island for 15 years, will share their “Three Perspectives ...
Midcoast artists show in Wells
Aug 14Midcoast artists Dozier Bell of Waldoboro, Kate Russo of Rockland and Lesia Sochor of Brooks are part of a small group show on view through Sept. ...
Pacy oils at Savory Maine
Aug 14Oil paintings by Waldoboro artist Brooke Pacy will be on view Wednesday, Aug. 16, through Sept. 26 at Savory Maine Dining and Provisions, 11 Water ...
Chronicling the times at Hurricane Gallery
Aug 12Hurricane Gallery’s summer show, “The Sad Bad Mad Blue Summer of 2017 with Little Lord Fauntleroy and Crew,” will open Saturday, Aug. 19, with a 5 ...
Frederick's 'Night Stories’ at CMCA
Aug 11The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., will present the groundbreaking exhibition, “Linden Frederick: Night Stories,” Saturday, ...
Plus Paint Nights
Getting Social with sea glass
Aug 11The next Art Social at The Art Loft will offer a fun night of learning and creating, while relaxing and making new friends, Saturday, Aug. 19, ...
Rugs, textiles to take center stage
Aug 11The Waldoborough Historical Society will hold a Rugs and Textiles reception Sunday, Aug. 20, from noon to 3 p.m. at the museum, 1164 Main St./Route...
Johns’ ‘Images’ at Ocean View
Aug 11"Images of Midcoast Maine” by photographer Dave Johns will be shown Friday through Sunday, Aug. 18 through 20, at Ocean View Grange, 435 Port ...
Final call for ‘Maine Wood 2018’
Aug 10The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship has put out a statewide call for entries for “Maine Wood 2018.” This biennial juried exhibition will run in ...
Travel journaling class offered
Aug 10The Sail, Power and Steam Museum at Sharp’s Point South will present a travel journaling workshop with Lucinda Hathaway Tuesday, Aug. 22, from ...
Ellis-Beauregard awards Studio Residencies
Aug 10The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, committed to the support of the individual artist, has instituted a program that offers artists space to work and ...
Lobster fest art show winners
Aug 10The 2017 Maine Lobster Festival Art Show, sponsored by and mounted at the downtown branch of Camden National Bank, has announced the winners. Two ...
MASS MoCA commission studies on view
Aug 09“MASS MoCA: Studies from a Museum Commission” will open Tuesday, Aug. 15, at Barbara Prey Projects, 855 Port Clyde Road/Route 131. The show will ...
Caldbeck opens four solo shows
Aug 09Beginning Wednesday, Aug. 16, the downtown Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., will exhibit the work of four artists: Lois Dodd of Cushing and New York ...
Quartet of artists, many media in Barn
Aug 09An interesting group show is on tap for Arts In The Barn. The multi-media, four-woman exhibition will open with a 5 to 7 p.m. reception Friday, ...
Peterson shares his creative charm at Haynes
Aug 08Harvey Peterson is a sculptor and a painter and for decades, he has taken familiar genres and imagery and turned them on their heads — with ...
‘Frippery, Toggery and Landscapery’
Aug 08Granite Gallery, 68 Main St./Route 131, will display artwork by three Maine women — DiTa Ondek, Susan Tobey White and Lauren Gill — Friday through ...
Fleming covers Island Journal
Drone images of the lobster fleet
Aug 08Maine is known around the world for the iconic lobster boats that dot the coast and are the primary vehicle for the state’s renowned fishing ...
Paine’s ‘Sail and Sea’ in Sanctuary
Aug 06The Sanctuary Gallery at the Rockland Congregational Church, 180 Limerock St., will welcome renowned Tenants Harbor artist Chuck Paine Sunday, ...
Three at Tidemark for ArtWalk
Aug 05ArtWalk Waldoboro’s village art celebration Saturday, Aug. 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. will bring three new artists to Tidemark Gallery, 902 Main ...
Stories behind the art at Mars Hall
Aug 05Mars Hall Gallery, 621 Port Clyde Road/Route 131, will open "The Bigger Picture," a show featuring “art with a story,” and the second phase of "14 ...
Hilt reception during ArtWalk Waldoboro
Aug 05The nonprofit Medomak Arts, 13 Friendship St./Route 220 in the village, will hold a Waldoboro ArtWalk reception for its new exhibition of paintings...
Guillerm draws ‘From Our Sea’
Aug 05Philippe Guillerm Gallery, 882 Main St., unveils “From Our Sea” during the Saturday, Aug. 12, ArtWalk Waldoboro, from 4 to 7 p.m. “From Our Sea,” ...
Three artists give voice to the ‘Unspoken’
Aug 05“Unspoken,” a photography exhibit by artists Sal Taylor Kydd, Cindy Beams and Jeannie Hutchins, will open Friday, Aug. 11, at Pascal Hall, 86 ...
Ralston posters for benefit sale
Aug 04On July 30 at the Strand Theatre, local photographer Peter Ralston took a packed house on a visually stunning trip through the Arctic that ...
Summer Celebration at Michael Good
Aug 02Michael Good Gallery will hold its 18th annual Summer Celebration Thursday, Aug. 10, from 4 to 7 p.m., presenting local multimedia artist Gil ...
Summer afternoons at Eric Hopkins Gallery
Aug 01Artist Eric Hopkins opens his gallery to the public Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m. during the months of August and September. The Eric Hopkins ...
Late summer stone, photos at New Era
Jul 30“Land and Legend,” New Era Gallery’s late summer show, will feature the work of sculptor William Lasansky and photographers Andrew Crane and Ron ...
Multi-discipline, -location work
Steel House Projects hosts Hall
Jul 29“The Number of Inches Between Them,” a new sculpture and performance project by New York-based artist Gordon Hall, will take place across multiple ...
Annual Cerese show celebrates ‘Color’
Jul 29Landing Gallery, 409 Main St., will open “Nature As Color,” a solo exhibition of 55 new paintings by Irma Cerese, with a First Friday Art Walk ...
‘The Beauty of the Maine Coast’
Jul 29The downtown Art Loft will open “The Beauty of the Maine Coast,” featuring work by photography students, with a 5 to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk ...
Bladon’s ‘Light’ in Port Clyde
Jul 29The Port Clyde Art Gallery will present work by its third guest artist of the season, Geoff Bladon, Wednesday, Aug. 2, through the 21st. The ...
Podlach oils, Hensel drawings at Frost
Jul 29Jonathan Frost Gallery, corner of Main Street and Park Drive, will host the opening reception for a show of new work by Betsy Podlach Friday, Aug. ...
New work at NoRo Gallery for First Friday
Jul 29The NoRo Gallery will be open for the city’s First Friday Art Walk Aug. 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery, set in a former church at 16 Brewster St., ...
Archipelago opens show for Art Walk
Jul 29Archipelago, the Island Institute’s store and gallery, will host an opening reception for its summer gallery show Friday, Aug. 4, from 5 to 8 ...
Wardlaw retrospective at Yvette Torres
Jul 29George Wardlaw, well-known in the art world and with a career and artistic styles spanning seven decades, will show work from the earliest years ...
Bartlett, Goodyear at Dowling Walsh
Jul 29Dowling Walsh Gallery, 365 Main St., will host two exhibitions in the month of August, featuring the work of Bo Bartlett and John Goodyear. They ...
LaFuente, Frey at Carver Hill
Jul 29Carver Hill Gallery, 338 Main St., will open the two person show “Christine Lafuente and Philip Frey” during the First Friday Art Walk, Aug. 4 ...
Maine muse for many media at Art Space
Jul 29Art Space Gallery, 342 Main St., will hang a new show in the front room featuring works by John Wood, Penny Markley, Lara Marx and Obrianna ...
Reception for ‘Fins, Feathers & Fur’
Jul 28Everyone is invited to come see the art selected for the Maine Coastal Islands’ first juried art show Friday, Aug. 4, from 4 to 7 p.m. “Fins, ...
Fiber art in the Picker Room
Jul 27Work by fiber artist Robyn Vine will fill Camden Public Library’s Picker Room gallery for the month of August, beginning with an opening reception ...
Fine Art
Powerful double shot for Monday Blues
Aug 17The Monday Night Blues series continues Aug. 28 with a double-artist show starting 6 p.m. in the upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St. ...
The Secret Sisters bring country-roots to Strand
Aug 17Americana duo The Secret Sisters will bring their unique blend of country and folk to the Strand Theatre stage Friday night, Aug. 25. The music ...
Community Band in Woolen Mill Park
Aug 16The Music in the Park series welcome the Midcoast Community Band Sunday, Aug. 27, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Woolen Mill Park on Main Street. The ...
Lincoln Festival Chorus weekend
Aug 16Now in its 37th season, Lincoln Festival Chorus, conducted by Anthony Antolini of Cushing, will perform a panorama of works by American composers ...
Luther on MAC Teaching Artist Roster
Aug 14The Maine Arts Commission has added four new Maine artists, including the Midcoast’s Tom Luther, to its online Teaching Artist Roster. Ten artists ...
Screen Door Music Festival
Five days, 18 events, 29 musicians
Aug 11Bay Chamber Concerts’ Screen Door Music festival runs Wednesday through Sunday, Aug. 16 through 20, at locations in Rockport and Camden. Screen ...
Kindred Hearts returns to Tent
Aug 11Family music ministry group Kindred Hearts will return to the Tent at the Top of the Hill, across from Ralph’s Homes on Route 1, Friday, Aug. 18, ...
Schmidt, Rogers return to Camden library
Aug 11Claudia Schmidt and Sally Rogers will perform Thursday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Picker Room of Camden Public Library. Tickets are $12, available ...
Chicano alt-folk beats sizzle at the opera house
Aug 10Las Cafeteras, a young group that has taken the music scene by storm with infectious live performances that cross genre and musical borders, will ...
Cru brings Tortured Souls to town
Aug 10The Monday Night Blues series continues Aug. 21 with Tas Cru & His Band of Tortured Souls, playing 7 p.m. in the upstairs music room of Time Out ...
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Flute gathering in Lincolnville
Aug 10Flutists are invited to gather Sunday, Aug. 20, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the United Christian Church, 18 Searsmont Road/Route 173 in Lincolnville ...
Live music in the willy-whacks
Aug 09‘Tis the time of year for rural music festivals, a chance to listen and dance to live music in the great outdoors. Here are several opportunities ...
Music with a Mission in Camden
Aug 09The Midcoast Brass Quintet will perform a benefit concert for the Shields Mission Project Sunday, Aug. 20, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the First Congregati...
Free community picnic, concert
Aug 09Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 15 Wesley Lane off Route 17, across from Johnson Memorial Park, will host a free community picnic and concert ...
Flatbread serves Jazz in August
Aug 09Local jazz vocalist Cindy Millar, accompanied by musicians of By the Bay Jazz Trio, will present a Jazz in August performance Sunday, Aug. 20, ...
Indie-folk to jazz at Rock City
Aug 09Rock City Café, 316 Main St., will present indie-folk trio Pandafan Friday; and jazz vocalist Nora Cavin Saturday, Aug. 18 and 19. The live music ...
Zoller performs annual Broad Bay organ concert
Aug 09Jay Harold Zoller will be the featured performer at the annual organ concert at Broad Bay Congregational United Church of Christ, 941 Main ...
New signal this fall
Maine Public Classical heads for Midcoast
Aug 09Maine Public has announced it has entered into an agreement to bring 24-hour FM classical music service to the Midcoast region of Maine in early ...
Summer gala, after party set for CMCA
Aug 05Everyone is invited to dance the night away at the Night Stories After Party, following the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's Summer Gala, ...
Musical Notes
Keaton classic steams into Friday Films
Aug 12The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library presents the Friday Night Film Series, screening movies every week at 7 p.m. in the historic Thomaston ...
‘Peyton Place’ screening in Camden
Aug 11Shot on location in Camden and other Midcoast sites in 1957, and now brought back to vibrant life in a spectacular restoration for its 60th ...
Friends screen ‘Stand by Me’
Aug 11Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St., will screen the film "Stand by Me" (1986, USA) Thursday, Aug. 24, at 6:30 p.m. The R-rated film, directed ...
‘Stan Lee Tribute,’ live from L.A.
Aug 10“Extraordinary: Stan Lee Tribute” will be broadcast live via satellite in HD from the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles to U.S. cinemas Tuesday, Aug. ...
Lecture, film on returning Nazi-appropriated art
Aug 09Farnsworth Art Museum, in partnership with the Strand Theatre and the Adas Yoshuron Synagogue, will co-present a lecture by attorney Donald S. ...
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Movies, MoJO in the Amphitheatre
Jul 26The Camden Public Library continues to host its Monday Night Movie Series in the adjacent amphitheater. Upcoming movies include “Journey to the ...
