In the introduction to his four-and-a-half-minute black and white video, A Poem for Maine (2023), the Deaf artist and poet Ian Sanborn expresses in ASL a sentiment about art that illuminates a communicative power not tied to language specifically. Captioning … Continue reading
The era of the exhibition Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention is 1952 to 1968; the setting is New York City. Establishing a chronology of Hartigan’s early works is crucial to the experience of the exhibition as a whole, since … Continue reading
Kinngait Studios is a fine art printmaking facility in the Arctic Circle in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It has been operated by the West Baffin Cooperative since the late 1950s, when the Canadian government introduced stenciling, stone-cut printmaking, and … Continue reading
“I am sure you recognize that the United States needs to lead in space for several reasons, each of which will contribute to the scientific, technological, or economic advancement, or to the peace and security of the free world.”—Senator Margaret … Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine an event more fully in concert with a liberal arts education than the visual extravaganza of Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing, currently on view at Bates College Museum of Art. The exhibition, curated by Sadie Williams … Continue reading
When the Zillman Art Museum’s executive director and curator George Kinghorn first connected with artist Peter Walls about a solo exhibition, he encouraged Walls to activate the space with a suite of new works. “I’m always interested in artists who … Continue reading
From over one hundred submissions by members of the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA), curator Carl Little selected 60 works for the group exhibition Washed Away, on view in the Lewis Gallery of the Portland Public Library. The paintings, … Continue reading
Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island, revolves around a botanical troublemaker known as dwarf mistletoe. The parasitic plant’s destructive impact on Monhegan’s white spruce trees has been a focus of … Continue reading
Marquetry is an art form that uses diverse wood species to create designs on the wooden surface of objects, often furniture. Patterns, shapes, and other pictorial elements are cut from veneer sheets as thin as cardstock, using a scroll saw, … Continue reading
There’s a layer cake—in the form of a book, of course!—at the entrance to Anniversary: 10 Years of the Charles Altschul Book Arts Studio, the wildly imaginative group exhibition at the Haas Gallery in Rockport. Cake is a limited-edition book … Continue reading
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