Community Calendar

Camden on Canvas is a fundraising event for the Camden Public Library’s Campaign for the Future. Up to twenty participating artists from Maine and New England have gathered together to paint for the future of the Camden Public Library. They can be seen on Friday, July 30, Saturday, July 31, and on the morning of August 1, 2021.<br/><br/> Look for the Camden on Canvas information booth in Harbor Park across from the Camden Public Library on Atlantic Avenue. Learn about the participating artists and grab a map to help you on your hunt to see these magnificent artists at work. These paintings will be sold on Sunday afternoon, August 1, 2021, at a ticketed Reception & Live Auction. <br/><br/> Plein-air Painting Information Tent<br/> Friday, July 30, 2021, and Saturday, July 31, 2021, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon<br/> (artists’ painting times & location will vary)<br/><br/> Wet Painting Exhibit Open to the Public<br/> Camden Amphitheatre<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 1:00 to 3:00 PM<br/><br/> Ticketed Reception & Auction of Wet Paintings<br/> Camden Amphitheatre<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 4:00-6:00 PM<br/> More information about Camden on Canvas will be available on the Library’s website, librarycamden.org, in mid-May.<br/> librarycamden.org<br/> 207-236-3440

Camden on Canvas is a fundraising event for the Camden Public Library’s Campaign for the Future. Up to twenty participating artists from Maine and New England have gathered together to paint for the future of the Camden Public Library. They can be seen on Friday, July 30, Saturday, July 31, and on the morning of August 1, 2021.<br/><br/> Look for the Camden on Canvas information booth in Harbor Park across from the Camden Public Library on Atlantic Avenue. Learn about the participating artists and grab a map to help you on your hunt to see these magnificent artists at work. These paintings will be sold on Sunday afternoon, August 1, 2021, at a ticketed Reception & Live Auction. <br/><br/> Plein-air Painting Information Tent<br/> Friday, July 30, 2021, and Saturday, July 31, 2021, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon<br/> (artists’ painting times & location will vary)<br/><br/> Wet Painting Exhibit Open to the Public<br/> Camden Amphitheatre<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 1:00 to 3:00 PM<br/><br/> Ticketed Reception & Auction of Wet Paintings<br/> Camden Amphitheatre<br/> Sunday, August 1, 2021, 4:00-6:00 PM<br/> More information about Camden on Canvas will be available on the Library’s website, librarycamden.org, in mid-May.<br/><br/> librarycamden.org<br/> 207-236-3440

Maine Crafts Association presents Fields of Pixels: An exhibition of porcelain wall art pieces by Jean Hardy at the Center for Maine Craft. Fields of Pixels is a functional potter's journey through isolation, greif, meditation, and creative exploration into new realms. Dedicated to the memory of her parents, Jean Hardy's new collection encompasses the exploration of her creative directions while taking on a role of family caregiver during a pandemic.

If you’re in or around Portland, ME in July stop in Richard Boyd Art Gallery on Peaks Island to see an exhibit of original works of visual art offering a study in contrasting styles from impressionism to realism. <br/> Contrasts includes works by artists’ with diverse backgrounds whose range of styles, choice of mediums, and color palette give them distinction in the visual arts community. If you like a specific style of painting like pointillism, abstracts, or traditional realism you’ll see a painting or drawing in the exhibit that brings you in for a closer look.<br/> The exhibit is comprised of a selection of original paintings and drawings by artists Patricia Chandler, Carrin Culotta, Roy Perkinson, and HM Saffer II. Open free charge from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily from July 1st through July 30th, 2021. <br/> For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email mailto:info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com . <br/><br/> After the exhibit opens, updates and images of paintings installed in the gallery are posted on our social media accounts. So, like the gallery on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and follow the gallery on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 . Image: HM Saffer ~ ‘Effervescent Waters II’ ~Oil on Canvas 16” x 20”

Central Maine Clay Artists offer artistic and functional designs that allow you to take Maine with you. Each of the clay artists has their identifiable style but with this show they are exploring new shapes and designs that gather inspiration from the state that offers so much- powerful ocean, scenic lakes, rugged mountains, delicate wildflowers, exceptional dining, dramatic seasonal changes, and so much more. In addition to the clay artists, the show will include paintings on the same theme by Nancy Keenan Barron. <br/><br/> Each artist has a distinct focus when seeking inspiration from what Maine offers. When asked about their inspiration, the natural environment is front and center. The abundance of Maine’s lakes, rivers and ocean, wildflowers, even dining outdoors, has served as inspiration. Participating Central Maine Clay Artists include- Mary K Spencer, Whitney Gill, Robbi Fritz Portella, Malley Weber, Libbey Seigars, Lori Keenan Watts, Marie Palluotto, Elizabeth MB Downs, and Ru Allen.<br/><br/> CMCA is a professional organization of ceramic artists working in Kennebec County and surrounding communities. Since 2007, the CMCA we have worked to support the creative economy and local art programs, and to promote the ceramic arts in Maine. Annual projects include Mug Season, an event held in conjunction with Maine-owned coffee shops to raise funds for art in the local schools, and the Holiday Pottery Shop, an opportunity for the public to buy local and get to know the folks who make handmade items locally. <br/><br/> The show can be seen at Monkitree-263 Water Street, Gardiner, ME through September 11th during regular shop hours- T/W 10-4, Th/Fr 10-5, Sat 10-4. There will not be an opening reception.

<b>International Marine Artist Deborah Chapin is opening up her Studio after a 2 year build of her new Studio in Bristol, ME</b> with art depicting the Maine Coast and Moonlight &amp;amp; Woodland Paintings. Previews of her work can be seen on her extensive Website Store at <b><a href="https://gallery.deborahchapin.com">gallery.deborahchapin.com</a></b> as well as <b><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/xnSzPLhPc4pWhLhN6">Google Maps</a></b> under Deborah Chapin Studio. <b>Chapin Studio at Stoneridge</b> Located: just off RTE 130 on Stoneridge Ln just south of D&amp;M Marine <b><a href="http://Https://Gallery.DeborahChapin.com">Https://Gallery.DeborahChapin.com</a></b> <b><a href="mailto:business@deborahchapin.com">business@deborahchapin.com</a></b> 240-486-0664 Deborah Chapin's Marine paintings have a long exhibition history starting with American Society Marine Artists in 1980 at the now defunct Grand Central Galleries in NYC. As an Independent artist since embarking on her career she has exhibited extensively in top shows and Museums including: Grand Palais and Carrousel de Louvre in Paris with the Société National des Beaux Arts, Mystic Seaport Gallery International since it's inception in 1982, Of Ships and Sea Exhibits at Greenwich Workshop Gallery, Artist of America Exhibitions Colorado Historical Museum, Ketterer Kunst Auctions, and Lectured on plein air painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum just to name a few. At the time of her debut she was one of two women in the national exhibitions of Marine Art. See more information <b><a href="https://gallery.deborahchapin.com/exhibition-history-of-35-years-in-paint-by-deborah-chapin/">https://gallery.deborahchapin.com/exhibition-history-of-35-years-in-paint-by-deborah-chapin/</a></b> She now resides in Maine and is working on a new portfolio of work and commission paintings in her studio/gallery.

Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House open for the season on June 4. Castle Tucker is one of Maine’s most fascinating landmarks. Step back in time as you walk through a mansion filled with the original furnishings and decoration of the Tucker family, who lived here for 150 years. Very little was changed in the house after 1900. The extensive archive left by the Tuckers enables Historic New England to tell the extraordinary stories of this talented and colorful family as told by the family themselves. Nickels-Sortwell House has had many lives beginning as the trophy house of shipping magnate William Nickels at the height of Wiscasset’s fortunes as a thriving seaport in 1807. Hear new stories of the Nickels family lifestyle and its cost as told by servants and family members, and untold stories, including that of Mary Chase Turner, who ran the house as an inn for 44 years and William Wilcockson and the Belle Haven years. Purchased by industrialist Alvin Sortwell in 1899, the house became a beloved family summer home. Guided tours leave on the half hour, 11 am - 3 pm.

Please join Seashore Trolley Museum for FREE Story Time each weekday from Monday, July 12th through Friday, August 27th. Story Time runs from 11:00AM to 11:30AM in the Exhibit Room in our comfortable Visitor's Center. Hear stories read by local authors and community volunteers. If you would like to stay and enjoy the rest of our Museum and take a trolley ride on a heritage railway (if they are operating the day you visit), please visit our website for trolley departure times and ticket pricing.<br/><br/> We are dog-friendly and have plenty of parking and picnic areas. There are tables/chairs in our Exhibit Room if you would like to picnic inside after Story Time.<br/><br/><br/>If you would like to ride the trolley and tour our exhibits, please purchase tickets online on our website or at the Museum. Tickets are not necessary for Story Time.<br/><br/> For more information visit https://trolleymuseum.org or email events@trolleymuseum.org

In the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, American artists gathered in summer colonies on the east and west coasts of the United States. On the east coast, two New England art colonies separated by hundreds of miles of ocean, Cape Ann, Massachusetts (Gloucester and Rockport) and Monhegan Island, Maine, attracted many of the same artists. Among the significant artists who visited both of these important crossroads in the history of American art were Theresa Bernstein, Eric Hudson, Leon Kroll, Hayley Lever, James Fitzgerald, Lester Stevens, Don Stone, and Stow Wengenroth. This exhibition will pair works created at each colony by these artists, as well as by many others, who visited or lived in both locations. The exhibition will feature paintings that depict aspects of both art colonies and that reflect the differences between the city-size Cape Ann, with its large industrial Gloucester harbor, sizable fishing fleet, and extended Rockport seashore, contrasted by the tiny off-shore island of Monhegan with its smaller harbor and lobster fleet as well as the amazing cliff formations of its eastern headlands. www.monheganmuseum.org

a canary torsi’s collaborative project, Performance | Portrait (2016), is an interactive video installation that invites audience members, one at a time, to an encounter with a performer who is projected, life-sized, in the gallery. Using a Kinect2 sensor, the live action is that of the audience – whose presence and interaction effects playback of the recorded image. In a time where live and virtual space are collapsing, the search for an intimate connection to performance is at the core of Performance | Portrait.<br/><br/> Audience members will engage with the work one at a time. Each ticket is for a 20-minute time slot.