Mar 28 Thursday
Told through the voices of local residents and community leaders, Resilience is a story of economic perseverance in three Maine communities. While there are always obstacles, working together, Maine people have always exhibited tremendous strength and determination when weathering a storm- staying true to the vision and values that have defined Maine’s communities for hundreds of years.
This film was commissioned by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and produced by Blaze Partners and Timber + Frame.
Doors open at 6:00 pm, the film starts at 7:00 pm, and a panel discussion immediately follows.
Resilience will also be airing on Maine Public Television on Thursday, March 28 at 9:00 pm and Saturday, March 30 at 2:00 pm.
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2024 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2024 News & Brews schedule!
Apr 04 Thursday
Apr 09 Tuesday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain presented by Portland Ovations. Join the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for a concert filled with funny twanging, foot-stomping and melodious light entertainment. With only ukuleles, singing and a bit of whistling, the orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky to Otis Redding, on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 pm at Merrill Auditorium.
To take advantage of the Maine Public Member discount, please use the code MainePublic15.
Apr 19 Friday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of the Collins Center for the Arts presenting Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo. Zenón, a groundbreaking saxophonist, and Perdomo, a renowned pianist, perform from their Grammy-winning Latin jazz album.
To take advantage of the Maine Public Member discount, please use the code MPR15.
The Running With Scissors (RWS) EMERGE Artist in Residence program elevates and supports artists who are in the emerging phase of their creative careers in either printmaking or clay by providing 24/7 access to the RWS studios as well as the respective department’s tools, equipment, and community.
RWS will host one to two artists per session, or up to four artists per year, working in either print or clay. The program offers two sessions each year:- Session 1 starts September 1, 2024 and concludes January 31, 2025.- Session 2 starts March 1, 2025 and concludes July 31, 2025.
Applications open March 1, 2024 and close on April 30, 2024. Info sessions will be held in person at 250 Anderson Street in Portland, ME on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 from 11AM - 12PM and Thursday, March 21 from 6-7PM. A virtual option will be made available to those who cannot attend in person.
Decisions are made by a small panel of local professional artists with knowledge in print or clay. Notifications will be made in late May 2024 and a public announcement will be made in early June 2024. Go to our website to learn more and apply.
We offer a 10-week program to teach history lovers and potential volunteers how to be docents at any of 11 historic sites and museums in the greater Portland area. The program is in its 29th year, and is extremely popular for the quality of the classroom sessions and the in-person visits to each musem and site.
SPRING IS IN THE AIR AT THE FARM! Volunteers Needed!Growing to Give is a not for profit, organic farm growing vegetables to give to those most in need in our community. This spring, volunteers will help us start seedlings, plant them in the gardens, and some help repair greenhouses on our Fix-It Team. We have many opportunities for volunteers ages 3-93 -- individuals, families, and groups. For more information, please check out our website at https://growingtogive.farm/ or send an email to volunteer@growingtogive.farm. Come meet members of your community while helping members of your community! See if volunteering at GROWING TO GIVE could be just the right fit for you, located at 30 East Coxon Road, Brunswick ME 04011.
Alison is a self-taught visual artist and photographer. She is mostly drawn to images of nature, but also enjoys playfully delving into and experimenting with other themes, using oil/acrylic paints, canvas, panels and grocery bags. She lives in Cumberland.
Libby Library is happy to have the Pine Point Quilters displaying their work here at the library.
The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is hosting its second annual“2 x 14 Love Show,” featuring several local artists and florists, from January 16 to April 6 at the Merrill Memorial Library Gallery on the second Floor. Participating florists will pair bouquets with artworks that inspire their arrangements and will be on display Saturday, February 10 at the art reception until Valentine's Day. The art reception will be on February 10, from 4pm to 6pm with light appetizers, desserts and drinks.Under the guidance and leadership of the Library Arts Committee, the second-floor gallery has grown into a two-room showing space with newly painted walls, gallery lights and a hanging system. The gallery has hosted art shows of local emerging and established artists for more than 20 years. The Yarmouth Arts Alliance is now managing the second-floor gallery in collaboration with library staff. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is grateful to the Library Arts Committee for all their work, and will continue the tradition of supporting local artists and bringing art and events to the community. Yarmouth Arts Alliance is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports arts and cultural activities in the community.
RICHARD WILSON: STORM OVER THE CITYJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Encompassing paintings, drawings, watercolor and prints, Richard Wilson’s exhibition Storm Over The City features selected works from 1978 to the present. Wilson offers glimpses into the human condition, with all its inherent challenges, vices and contradictions. There is a theatricality in the artist’s imagined environments—some are inhabited by a comedic cast of characters—while in other works sexually charged figures unite en masse.
Dark humor permeates a number of Wilson’s meticulously rendered graphite drawings. The artist depicts anthropomorphic creatures engaging in mischief and sometimes inflicting pain on the human subjects. For instance, in The Cauldron, a froglike woman-creature has turned a man upside down in a painful wrestling hold while in Success, horned devils are forcing people to tend a fire. In other works, like Dysfunctional Friends, Wilson’s subjects are consumed with their own self-inflicted buffoonery. Despite the desperate conditions facing Wilson’s uncanny characters, the collective absurdity of the scenes elicit a humorous response.
However, there is a sense of looming peril in Wilson’s recent paintings. Questions are posed such as: what is lurking beneath the expanse of blue waters in which two tiny figures swim in opposite directions? At what point does the outdoor adventure seeker realize that his canoe will soon crash over a rushing waterfall? These paintings convey the vulnerability of humans when facing the vastness, mystery and power of nature.
Image: Richard Wilson, Running Man, 1989, Gouache, Courtesy of the artist
LINDA PACKARD: POEMS I MEANT TO WRITEJanuary 19 - May 3, 2024
Maine-based artist Linda Packard has created a new body of abstract paintings for the Zillman Art Museum’s exhibition Poems I Meant to Write. The show features large-scale works that measure up to six feet—the artist’s largest paintings to date. While the works are non-objective, Packard states that she “remains strongly informed by her many years as a plein air landscape painter,” and that she, “continues to be drawn to the same organic shapes, rich textures, and earthy palette.”
Packard’s gestural movements around the canvases are intuitive, her brushstrokes varied and sensitive. The paintings highlight the physical properties of oil paint as rich surfaces emerge through a series of layers and revision. The artist also uses pigment sticks, charcoal, crayon pencils and graphite to diversify the texture and quality of her marks.
In line with the expressive spirit of earlier Abstract Expressionist painters, Packard’s works convey both energy and mood. By combining well-defined marks that seem to hover atop other thin, veil-like passages, she has created implied environments that give the illusion of deep space. Upstairs by the China Lamp, with its palette of crimson tones and glimmers of peachy-orange, has a fiery intensity; while vivid blues combine with grayed undertones to evoke atmospheric associations in When Hope Was Returned to Me.
This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the City of Bangor Commission on Cultural Development.
Image: Linda Packard, Upstairs By The China Lamp, 2023, Oil on canvas, Courtesy of the artist
Where the model is the star, a series of 20 minute poses with no instruction, but plenty of easels, charcoal and basic supplies, tea, and friendly fellow artists.
18 and over, under 18 allowed with parental attendance!
Friday, March 1st
1:00 p.m. Beyond the Arctic Circle/Aurora Storm
7:00 p.m. Beyond the Arctic Circle/Aurora Storm
8:30 p.m. Laser Show: “Dark Side of the Moon”
Saturday, March 2nd
1:00 p.m. Greek Myths in the Night Sky
Sunday, March 3rd
1:00 p.m Beyond the Arctic Circle/Aurora Storm
2:00 p.m. Laser Show: Laser Beatles
Monday, March 4th
1:00 p.m. Totality
Tuesday, March 5th
Wednesday, March 6th
Thursday, March 7th
Friday, March 8th
7:00 p.m. Totality
8:30 p.m. Laser Show: “The Wall”
Saturday, March 9th
No laser show today
Sunday, March 10th
2:00 p.m. Laser Show: Laser Magic
Monday, March 11th
Tuesday, March 12th
Wednesday, March 13th
Thursday, March 14th
1:00 p.m. Magic of the Other World
Friday, March 15th
7:00 p.m. Magic of the Other World
8:30 p.m. Laser Show: Laser Magic
Saturday, March 16th
7:00 p.m Night of Eire
Sunday, March 17th
2:00 p.m. Laser Show: Laser Perseus/Laser Mania
Monday, March 18th
Tuesday, March 19th
Wednesday, March 20th
Thursday, March 21st
Friday, March 22nd
Saturday, March 23rd
Sunday, March 24th
Monday, March 25th
Tuesday, March 26th
Wednesday, March 27th
Thursday, March 28th
Friday, March 29th
8:30 p.m Laser Show: “The Wall”
Saturday, March 30th
2:00 p.m. Laser Show: “Laser Magic”
Sunday, March 31st