We asked 10 art-world luminaries to share the under-the-radar places where they find great Maine art.
Arts & Leisure
Last year’s second running of the Great Maine Scavenger Hunt enticed hundreds of readers and fans to explore the Pine Tree State’s weirder, woolier corners. Dozens returned home victorious — faces suntanned, quads aching from mountain hikes, hands stinking of codfish. Here are a few of their stories.
The year’s most talked-about big-screen superhero spends summers laying low (and occasionally battling aliens) on the midcoast.
For those contending with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia and memory loss, the Sam L. Cohen Adult Day Center in Biddeford provides care, social support, and respite.
The wayfaring founder of an agrarian lit mag is calling Down East Maine home — and reimagining the area’s rural economy.
On the governor's lifelong love of verse.
What if history’s powerful and pioneering women were celebrated and honored in public spaces? Abigail Gray Swartz is out to remix whole cityscapes with ambitious monuments to history’s “hidden figures.”
Artists in Their Studios is a photography project developed by the Maine Crafts Association to document Maine fine craft artists throughout the state in the spaces where they create.
These are a few of our favorite things — a look back at our first decade (or so) of illustrated holiday covers.
See southern Maine through the lens of Holly Star, a lighthearted holiday flick out this month.
The Unity College lumberjack team never lets the sawdust settle.
Portland playwright Bess Welden on creating a show with help from her city’s immigrant community.