At a recent international conference for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a panel of art directors lamented a practical efficiency of our digital world: they rarely set their eyes on the original artwork from which their illustrated … Continue reading →

What does it mean to be an artist in Maine? Specifically, what has it meant to be an artist here over the past 200 years, leading up to, and then including, the historic upheaval of 2020? This is the central … Continue reading →

In Monson Art Gallery’s current exhibition, The Art of Monson: A Bicentennial Celebration, curated by Carl Little, there is a sense of time looping and compressing through encounters with paintings, photographs, sculpture, and fine craft created over almost 200 years. … Continue reading →

A series of drawings—mostly in pencil on sketchbook and watercolor papers and one largely composed in watercolor—are the foundation of Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, a contemplative exhibitions on view at Colby College Museum of Art through October 16, 2022. Wyeth … Continue reading →

Industrial designer Allen “Rod” Williams is the subject of an exhibition at the Maine Classic Car Museum, where fifteen of Williams’s color illustrations for Ford and Chrysler are on view alongside vintage models. You might not realize it, but you … Continue reading →

How does a superhero become superhuman? Friedrich Nietzsche can offer some guidance: “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” Portland Museum … Continue reading →

For Jim Morin, all art is political. As the editorial cartoonist at the Miami Herald for 42 years, Morin created witty, often biting cartoons that are nationally and internationally syndicated, and he’s received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for editorial … Continue reading →

“You can’t go home again.” So said Thomas Wolfe, and photographic artist Jona Frank has been saying the same thing with her work for some 20 years. Longer even, if you start from the moment she began developing pictures. In … Continue reading →

Lesley Dill, a mixed-media artist whose works are in the collection of over 50 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has just completed a new monumental exhibition a decade in … Continue reading →

As anyone who has tried to purchase property in the past year knows, Portland has a pressing need for diverse, affordable housing. The city’s newly adopted building code contains a major coup on that front, allowing for the creation of … Continue reading →