The Coastal Children’s Museum and National Audubon’s Project Puffin are teaming up to offer Seaside Science, a six week series of science workshops for children 6 and up focusing on topics such as biodiversity, adaptations, conservation and more. The workshops will take place from 3:30-4:30 starting Saturday May 25th and continue each Saturday until June 29th. Each program will focus on a different topic to build scientific knowledge and skills through activities, stories, games and art. The series culminates in an afternoon trip to Hog Island off of Muscongus Bay.

COLLECT: MECA's Summer Art Sale

This event benefits MECA's scholarship fund and participating artists - work by over 100 Maine College of Art community artists.

June 7-9, 2013 - 85 Free Street (entrance behind Maine College of Art), Portland, ME.
Friday, June 7, 9:00am-9:00pm, Saturday, June 8, 9:00am-7:00pm (Meet the Artists 2:00pm-5:00pm), Sunday, June 9, 10:00am-2:00pm. For more information visit www.meca.edu/artsale.

The Georgetown Working League is holding their 100th annual fair in 2013. Quilt raffle, handmade items,collectibles, homemade baked goods, art, crafts, books, jewelry, white elephants, childrens activities, lunch. All proceeds benefit the town.

Experience Portland’s signature holiday decorations with holiday light sculptures by artist Pandora LaCasse.

This exhibition examines, for the first time, the artistic interrelationship of the painter Winslow Homer, his close friend the architect John Calvin Stevens, and the Portland Society of Art, the Portland Museum of Art’s predecessor. With architectural drawings and a range of paintings and watercolors by Winslow Homer and his Maine contemporaries, this installation of 50 works provides a deeper understanding of Portland’s art world at the turn of the last century.

Museum hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

In conjunction with the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September 2012, the museum commissioned five contemporary photographers to reflect on this historic structure and its setting with works that combined the latest digital technologies with a variety of historic processes available during Homer’s lifetime. They employed both historic, large-plate cameras and modern digital cameras, and a variety of print processes. The earliest method of making images of the real world with light—the camera obscura—is the technique explored by Abelardo Morell with his unique tent camera.

The first career museum retrospective for American painter Lois Dodd will feature paintings that define the places and subjects that have mattered most in her nearly 60-year career—views of New York City’s Lower East Side from her apartment windows; of the woods and gardens of Midcoast Maine; and wintery scenes near her family home in New Jersey. Dodd was a key member of New York’s postwar art scene and part of the wave of modern artists who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

Enjoy live music, outdoor sporting demonstrations, and special daytime activities during downtown’s coolest event!

An hysterical, off-beat comedy set in Tuna, the “third smallest town in Texas,” where the Lions Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies.

Together with Art Collector Maine, we are welcoming our February Artist of the Month, Rufus Coes, with a kick-off reception on Thursday, January 31 at our Villa location in Rockport. Stop by and enjoy wine and art as you get a chance to meet the artist and mingle with friends. We will also be having a winemaker dinner on Saturday February 2 with Mr. Coes and featuring a very special guest chef, Chef Kerry Altiero of Cafe Miranda, to prepare the evening’s menu.