Apr 04 Thursday
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2024 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2024 News & Brews schedule!
Apr 09 Tuesday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain presented by Portland Ovations. Join the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for a concert filled with funny twanging, foot-stomping and melodious light entertainment. With only ukuleles, singing and a bit of whistling, the orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky to Otis Redding, on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 pm at Merrill Auditorium.
To take advantage of the Maine Public Member discount, please use the code MainePublic15.
Apr 18 Thursday
Apr 19 Friday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of the Collins Center for the Arts presenting Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo. Zenón, a groundbreaking saxophonist, and Perdomo, a renowned pianist, perform from their Grammy-winning Latin jazz album.
To take advantage of the Maine Public Member discount, please use the code MPR15.
Apr 25 Thursday
Shannon Bowring will discuss the book The Road to Dalton with host Bill Nemitz on April 25th at 7:00 PM.
Do you love books? Are you interested in hearing from the author and looking behind the curtain at what the author was thinking while writing? Perhaps have the author respond to a question or two that has been on your mind about a particular scene or character. Look no further than the Maine Public Book Club!
Click HERE to join the book club and receive information about book club news & events!
Mar 29 Friday
The Running With Scissors (RWS) EMERGE Artist in Residence program elevates and supports artists who are in the emerging phase of their creative careers in either printmaking or clay by providing 24/7 access to the RWS studios as well as the respective department’s tools, equipment, and community.
RWS will host one to two artists per session, or up to four artists per year, working in either print or clay. The program offers two sessions each year:- Session 1 starts September 1, 2024 and concludes January 31, 2025.- Session 2 starts March 1, 2025 and concludes July 31, 2025.
Applications open March 1, 2024 and close on April 30, 2024. Info sessions will be held in person at 250 Anderson Street in Portland, ME on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 11AM - 12PM and Thursday, March 21 from 6-7PM. A virtual option will be made available to those who cannot attend in person.
Decisions are made by a small panel of local professional artists with knowledge in print or clay. Notifications will be made in late May 2024 and a public announcement will be made in early June 2024. Go to our website to learn more and apply.
SPRING IS IN THE AIR AT THE FARM! Volunteers Needed!Growing to Give is a not for profit, organic farm growing vegetables to give to those most in need in our community. This spring, volunteers will help us start seedlings, plant them in the gardens, and some help repair greenhouses on our Fix-It Team. We have many opportunities for volunteers ages 3-93 -- individuals, families, and groups. For more information, please check out our website at https://growingtogive.farm/ or send an email to volunteer@growingtogive.farm. Come meet members of your community while helping members of your community! See if volunteering at GROWING TO GIVE could be just the right fit for you, located at 30 East Coxon Road, Brunswick ME 04011.
Get ready for the great DINO Egg Hunt!
A Mama Dinosaur left her eggs throughout the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, and we need help collecting them! Search for colorful dino eggs, and try your luck at the golden dino egg challenge. Stop by MakerSpace to create a dinosaur-themed craft, explore fossils, and have a tasty snack to finish out the celebration. All dino egg hunters will receive a special bag DINO-TASTIC tote bag provided by presenting sponsor Gorham Savings Bank for their eggs and prizes. Please leave bags, buckets, or baskets at home.
Visitors, please note Friday morning is designed with our youngest visitors in mind, and Saturday and Sunday are designed for 3+. A special Play Your Way DINO Egg Hunt will be held at 5 pm on March 28 for those families who would benefit from a quieter, low-key play session.
DINO Egg Hunt is a member block-out date. CMTM is open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm after the event. DINO Egg hunters are welcome to stay and play until 11 am. After that, separate reservations are required Members receive free admission after 10 am.
Thank you to Gorham Savings Bank for their generous support of this event and for helping to ensure every child can imagine and learn through play.
Alison is a self-taught visual artist and photographer. She is mostly drawn to images of nature, but also enjoys playfully delving into and experimenting with other themes, using oil/acrylic paints, canvas, panels and grocery bags. She lives in Cumberland.
Libby Library is happy to have the Pine Point Quilters displaying their work here at the library.
The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is hosting its second annual“2 x 14 Love Show,” featuring several local artists and florists, from January 16 to April 6 at the Merrill Memorial Library Gallery on the second Floor. Participating florists will pair bouquets with artworks that inspire their arrangements and will be on display Saturday, February 10 at the art reception until Valentine's Day. The art reception will be on February 10, from 4pm to 6pm with light appetizers, desserts and drinks.Under the guidance and leadership of the Library Arts Committee, the second-floor gallery has grown into a two-room showing space with newly painted walls, gallery lights and a hanging system. The gallery has hosted art shows of local emerging and established artists for more than 20 years. The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is now managing the second-floor gallery in collaboration with library staff. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is grateful to the Library Arts Committee for all their work, and will continue the tradition of supporting local artists and bringing art and events to the community. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports arts and cultural activities in the community.
If you are in or around Portland, Maine this March stop in Richard Boyd Art Gallery to see a great annual exhibition of paintings and sculptures created by a group of highly regarded, nationally renowned, and established women artists with different perspectives, and interests joined by their love of creating art.
Visual art created by women is underrepresented in museums and galleries around the globe. So, let’s change this. Help celebrate women and the contributions they make to the arts and our society on a daily basis.
The exhibition showcases paintings created by women using innovative and traditional techniques and includes works by artists’ Amy Bickford – gouache, Deena S. Ball - watercolor, Patricia Chandler – oil and cold wax medium, Carrin Culotta – oil, Wyn Foland – mixed media, Jane Herbert – acrylic, Jen Pagnini – mixed media, Felicity Sidwell – oil, and unique and limited-edition sculptures by Laura Freeman.
The exhibit is open free of charge every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM through March 30th, 2024. Additional days and times by chance or appointment.
For more information contact the gallery by phone at (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website at www.richardboydartgallery.com .
For exhibition updates follow the gallery on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 .
Image of Ledges at Two Lights a 24” x 30” oil on panel painting by nationally renowned Maine artist and educator Patricia Chandler.
RICHARD WILSON: STORM OVER THE CITYJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Encompassing paintings, drawings, watercolor and prints, Richard Wilson’s exhibition Storm Over The City features selected works from 1978 to the present. Wilson offers glimpses into the human condition, with all its inherent challenges, vices and contradictions. There is a theatricality in the artist’s imagined environments—some are inhabited by a comedic cast of characters—while in other works sexually charged figures unite en masse.
Dark humor permeates a number of Wilson’s meticulously rendered graphite drawings. The artist depicts anthropomorphic creatures engaging in mischief and sometimes inflicting pain on the human subjects. For instance, in The Cauldron, a froglike woman-creature has turned a man upside down in a painful wrestling hold while in Success, horned devils are forcing people to tend a fire. In other works, like Dysfunctional Friends, Wilson’s subjects are consumed with their own self-inflicted buffoonery. Despite the desperate conditions facing Wilson’s uncanny characters, the collective absurdity of the scenes elicit a humorous response.
However, there is a sense of looming peril in Wilson’s recent paintings. Questions are posed such as: what is lurking beneath the expanse of blue waters in which two tiny figures swim in opposite directions? At what point does the outdoor adventure seeker realize that his canoe will soon crash over a rushing waterfall? These paintings convey the vulnerability of humans when facing the vastness, mystery and power of nature.
Image: Richard Wilson, Running Man, 1989, Gouache, Courtesy of the artist
Preschooler Story Time. Children's librarian Miss Amy hosts story times in the Camden Public Library's Picker Room, especially themed for preschool-aged children on Thursday and Friday mornings. For information email Miss Amy: alhand@librarycamden.org.
LINDA PACKARD: POEMS I MEANT TO WRITEJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Maine-based artist Linda Packard has created a new body of abstract paintings for the Zillman Art Museum’s exhibition Poems I Meant to Write. The show features large-scale works that measure up to six feet—the artist’s largest paintings to date. While the works are non-objective, Packard states that she “remains strongly informed by her many years as a plein air landscape painter,” and that she, “continues to be drawn to the same organic shapes, rich textures, and earthy palette.”
Packard’s gestural movements around the canvases are intuitive, her brushstrokes varied and sensitive. The paintings highlight the physical properties of oil paint as rich surfaces emerge through a series of layers and revision. The artist also uses pigment sticks, charcoal, crayon pencils and graphite to diversify the texture and quality of her marks.
In line with the expressive spirit of earlier Abstract Expressionist painters, Packard’s works convey both energy and mood. By combining well-defined marks that seem to hover atop other thin, veil-like passages, she has created implied environments that give the illusion of deep space. Upstairs by the China Lamp, with its palette of crimson tones and glimmers of peachy-orange, has a fiery intensity; while vivid blues combine with grayed undertones to evoke atmospheric associations in When Hope Was Returned to Me.
This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the City of Bangor Commission on Cultural Development.
Image: Linda Packard, Upstairs By The China Lamp, 2023, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of the artist