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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2026

Ogunquit Museum exhibit speaks truth to power at a critical moment in American history | Column - Portland Press Herald

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art is presenting "Looking for America," an exhibition featuring the work of Black conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas and his collaborators. The show, on view through July 19, uses innovative materials like UV-printed retroreflective vinyl to reveal hidden imagery, such as a civil rights demonstration beneath a decorative pattern, encouraging viewers to look beyond surface appearances.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 3, 2026

What does it takes to install an art exhibition at Colby’s art museum? - Portland Press Herald

The article follows the behind-the-scenes process of installing "Alex Katz: Out of Sight" at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. It details how curator Kiko Aebi spent a year researching and selecting 95 drawings from Katz's seven-decade career, working with senior preparator Christopher Patch to frame and install works sourced from Colby's collection, Katz's studio, and institutions like MoMA and the Whitney. The exhibition opened in late May 2025, featuring drawings from the 1940s through 2025 on coral pink walls.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 2, 2026

Damariscotta gallery exhibits photographer’s Maine snapshots - Portland Press Herald

River Arts in Damariscotta, Maine, presents photographer Daniel O’Leary’s solo exhibition, “The Damariscotta River, Winslow Homer in Maine, and A Few Photographic Memories,” running from June 4-24 in the River Room. O’Leary, a former reporter for The Detroit News and later an art museum director, moved to Maine and restored the historic Winslow Homer Studio at Prouts Neck, then began photographing landscapes that inspired Homer and other artists, including Monhegan Island. His work captures Maine’s coastal scenery with a documentarian’s eye and art-historical sensibility.

museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2026

2 art exhibits in Woolwich, Portland illuminate in more ways than one - Portland Press Herald

Two solo exhibitions by artists Josefina Auslender and Billy Gerard Frank are on view in Woolwich and Portland, Maine, through mid-May. Auslender's "La Chimera de Oro (The Golden Chimera)" at Sarah Bouchard gallery features new ink-on-paper drawings exploring themes of artistic truth and the seductive danger of commercial success, while Frank's show at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design (ICA at MECA&D) addresses the legacy of slavery through multimedia installations.

rate_review review schedule Dec 17, 2025

Emerging painter shows what it means to be a Maine artist | Column - Portland Press Herald

Dean McCrillis, an emerging painter from Rumford, Maine, is the subject of a solo exhibition titled "Dog Years" at Cove Street Arts in Portland, running through January 17. The show features oil paintings that depict distinctly Maine activities—hunting, fishing, camping—while employing layered, translucent brushstrokes to evoke the ephemerality of time and experience. McCrillis, who also works as a framer at Greenhut Galleries, uses a bright, saturated palette and techniques that make his images appear to simultaneously emerge and dissolve, capturing fleeting moments in the state's rugged landscape.

museum exhibitions schedule Nov 5, 2025

Portland exhibit shows off multifaceted artists’ personal narratives | Column - Portland Press Herald

Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts' installation "The Harvest" (2021) is featured in "otherwise," a thesis exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D in Portland, running through Dec. 13. The show also includes works by Ayana V. Jackson, whose project "From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya" was targeted by Donald Trump in his attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition explores how artists use storytelling and worldbuilding to cope with difficult contemporary issues and imagine better futures, serving as a companion to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's "Where the Real Lies."

museum exhibitions schedule Oct 17, 2025

Art exhibit honors Maine’s Deaf community, victims of Lewiston shootings - Portland Press Herald

An exhibition titled “Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In” is on view at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland, Maine. Co-curated by Michelle Ames and Meryl Troop, the show features work by deaf artists and craftspeople alongside color photographs of Lewiston by Michael Kolster. It was created in response to the October 2023 mass shooting at Schemengees Bar & Grille in Lewiston, which killed 18 people, four of whom were deaf. Ames, co-director of deaf services at Disability Rights Maine, was frustrated by the lack of ASL interpreters in media coverage and helped organize community support. The exhibition includes pieces that explore Deaf culture, healing, and the concept of De’VIA (Deaf View/Image Art), a term defined in 1989 by deaf artists to express the Deaf experience through high contrast, intense colors, and symbolic imagery.

museum exhibitions schedule Sep 10, 2025

11 art exhibits across Maine you shouldn’t miss this fall - Portland Press Herald

The Portland Press Herald highlights 11 art exhibitions across Maine for fall, including shows at Bates College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and Colby Museum of Art. Featured exhibitions include "Shelburne Thurber: Full Circle" and "Precision and Expression: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection" at Bates; "Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944" and "Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection" at Bowdoin; the CMCA 2025 Biennial with 29 selected artists; and "Gertrude Abercombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery" and "Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali" at Colby.

museum exhibitions schedule May 15, 2025

Summer shows include multiple exhibitions viewing nature through 2 artists’ work - Portland Press Herald

Multiple Maine museums are collaborating this summer to present simultaneous exhibitions of two mid-career gestural painters, Nicole Wittenberg and Ann Craven, whose work deeply engages with nature and landscape painting. Wittenberg's shows include "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (through July 20), "Nicole Wittenberg: Cheek to Cheek" at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (through Sept. 14), and a Paris exhibition at the Fondation Le Corbusier. Craven's exhibitions span the Farnsworth Art Museum ("Ann Craven: Painted Time," through Jan. 4, 2026), the Portland Museum of Art ("Spotlight: Ann Craven," May 14 to Sept. 14), and Bowdoin College Museum of Art (starting May 22).

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