For the past 10 years, painter, author, and illustrator Daniel Minter has raised awareness of the forced removal in 1911 of an interracial community on Maine’s Malaga Island. GORHAM, Maine — Near the entrance to OTHERED: Displaced from Malaga at the University of Southern Maine Gallery, in Gorham, is a drone photograph of Malaga Island…
Picture Book Biographies to Dazzle a Fact-Loving Child By Julie Just Nov. 9, 2018 At a literacy center in Brooklyn where I volunteered a couple of years ago, I was often surprised by which books would catch a child’s eye. It was not always the ones with bold jackets or zany titles, as I somehow…
Written by: Bob Keyes Photo courtesy of Tom Paiement Tom Paiement’s studio on the third floor of an old building in downtown Bath includes a former Masonic meeting hall. He paints in one room and hangs his finished paintings in the hall, which offers wall space as plentiful as any gallery in Maine. He’s enjoyed the…
The Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired one of his cityscapes. by Bob Keyes, staff writer Artist Joel Babb poses for a photo in his studio in Sumner on August 24. Staff photo by Gregory Rec SUMNER — It was on the streets of Rome where Joel Babb became a painter, and it was above…
Opening reception Thursday, October 3 from 5-7pm
Artist Talk, Saturday, October 5th at 1pm
Matt Blackwell and Kathi Smith diverge in content, but share a vibe in their Greenhut Galleries show. Matt Blackwell and Kathi Smith might seem an unlikely pairing, but their paintings work together satisfyingly well. Blackwell is a painterly wit. He lets it fly both in terms of his brush and his content. We…
The paintings at Greenhut Galleries capture Portland’s sights and its history. By Daniel Kany for the Maine Sunday Telegram, April 22, 2018 The 2018 “Portland Show” at Greenhut Galleries…
By Pat Davidson Reef, Special to the Sun Journal February 6, 2018 PORTLAND — A bright spot to keep you warm in Maine this cold winter is the 2018 Biennial Art Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art. Don’t miss it. Like a burst of light, this exhibit will stimulate those who see it. The color…
It features about 75 works by two dozen artists and diverges in terms of media. BY DANIEL KANY The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial is possibly the most handsome since the Thon Bequest set the every-other-year exhibit in motion about 20 years ago. This year’s biennial was organized by outside curator Nat May, who worked…
