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Andrews Shaker Collection - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

Oct 27 thru Feb 05, 2012. Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection tells the story of the first and most avid collectors of the Shaker art, Faith and Edward Deming Andrews. From the 1920s through the 1960s, the Andrews actively pursued Shaker objects, collecting mainly from the Shakers themselves. Through careful documentation and scholarship, the Andrews illuminated these materials and their collection has bequeathed to future generations the most comprehensive body of evidence on the culture of the United Society of Believers. The exhibition, comprised of more than 200 objects, is the most comprehensive collection of Shaker materials ever assembled and will feature the work of Shaker communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Works on view include Shaker furniture, printed works, visual art, tools, textiles, and small crafts collected during four decades. Event #7246   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Searching for Me Art Exhibit - Portland Public Library

5 Monument Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 871-1700

          

Jan 12 thru Mar 01, 2012. The Portland Public Teen Library Team, in partnership with The Telling Room and Maine College of Art are proud to present the Searching for Me exhibit, featuring original art created by teens ages 12-19. The artwork and stories in Searching for Me were created by teens ages 12-19 at the Portland Public Library in December 2011 in collaboration with The Telling Room and Maine College of Art. Teens created silhouettes with Maine College of Art Students one week, and then filled the silhouettes with biographical stories the following week. Works from this collaboration will be on display in the Teen Room at the Portland Public Library from now until March 1, 2012. Event #7981   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Hooked Rug Exhibits - Saco Museum

371 Main Street
Saco, Maine 04072
 Phone: (207) 283-3861

          

Jan 13 thru Mar 24, 2012. Two Hooked Rug exhibits at the Saco Museum. All Marked Out celebrates the hooked rug innovator and entrepreneur Edward S. Frost, who launched a rug-pattern business right here in Biddeford, Maine, in the mid-19th-century. Originally presented at the Maine State Museum in 2006, Rugs All Marked Out features rugs, burlap patterns, and metal stencils from the Maine State Museum collection. The original exhibition will be enhanced with Frost rugs and patterns from the Saco Museum's own collections, all recent acquisitions. Also on view will be modern hooked rugs by members of the Maine Tin Pedlar, a group of local hooked rug artists named in honor of Frost. Both exhibitions will be on view at the Saco Museum January 14 through March 24, 2012. An opening reception for both exhibitions will take place at the Saco Museum on Friday, January 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This reception is free and open to the public. Event #7753   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Making Faces: Photo Portraits of Actors & Artists - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

Jan 14 thru Apr 08, 2012. Two newly acquired portfolios by Berenice Abbott and Robert Doisneau, filled with portraits of famous artists and actors of the mid-20th century, prompted this look at the art of photographic portraiture. Drawn from the Museum's growing collection of celebrity portraits, the exhibition of 35 works will examine the way in which appearence, poses, and props help to define the public perception of an artist's work, whether it be on the stage or in a museum. Other photographers whose works will be on view include Philippe Halsman, with images of notable early television personalities such as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Imogene Coca, and Jackie Gleason; and Barbara Morgan, whose photographs of the choreographer Martha Graham, capture the essence of modern dance. The exhibition will also feature portraits of some of Maine's leading artists including Andrew Wyeth, Stephen Etnier, Louise Nevelson, Robert Indiana, Brett Bigbee, and Dozier Bell, whose work will be on view in the Museum's third floor galleries. Event #7740   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Interpretations: Two Takes on Nature - Engine Exhibit Space

265 Main Street
Biddeford, Maine 04005
 Phone: (207) 229-3560

          

Jan 27 thru Feb 18, 2012. Engine presents "Interpretations: Two Takes on Nature" during the upcoming Biddeford ArtWalk on Friday, January 27 at 265 Main Street from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The show, open through February 18, will feature paintings and drawings by Gedy Moody of Biddeford Pool, and metal sculptures by Jac Ouellette of South Portland. Moody, a native of Bulgaria and part-time resident of Italy, is a graduate of the Boston Museum of Fine Art School. Often stirred by the many moods and vibrant colors of the varied landscapes and villages around her, Moody's work in "Interpretations" is inspired by the Biddeford shoreline. Ouellette, a graduate of the Maine College of Art, is a multi-media artist. Her current work encompasses metal sculptures, metal furniture, and landscapes in oil. Ouellette's large steel sculptures in "Interpretations" manage to be neither cold nor sharp-edged, but instead ripple with a bright, organic softness. Event #8070   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Between Past and Present: Historic Photographic Processes and the Winslow Homer Studio - Portland Museum of Art

7 Congress Square
Portland, Maine 04101
 Phone: (207) 775-6148

          

Oct 06 thru Jan 20, 2013. In conjunction with the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio, the Museum will present an exhibition of contemporary photography made with a variety of historic processes available during Homer's lifetime. From tintypes to platinum prints, cyanotypes to gum bichromate prints, these historical processes in the hands of today's photographers simultaneously evoke the past and capture the present. The Museum has commissioned a group of photographers for this project including Abelardo Morell (camera obscura), Keliy Anderson-Staley (wet-plate collodion), Brenton Hamilton (cyanotype and gum bichromate), Tillman Crane (platinum prints), and Alan Vlach (salted paper prints). Images of the Homer Studio will include architectural studies, views of the landscape, interior scenes, and even still-life subjects of the few objects that survive from Homer's day. This exhibition is the sixth in a series of exhibitions called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine and beyond. Event #7747   Map + Directions   |   Report Update