Maine Arts Events

May 9, 2008

Artist Series- Sewn Beading
Workshop/Class
10:00AM
Artascope Studios
352 Cottage Road
South Portland

Session I May 9 - Jun 13 Fridays 10am to 1pm Curious about what to do with those tiny beads? This class will explore the various techniques of sewn beading. You'll learn the basic techniques such as: peyote, herringbone, spirals and cabaret. Develop your own style with these fun stitches! Create unique bracelets, necklaces and even pendants that will catch everyone's attention.

Cost:$150

For more information:
Sponsor: Artascope Studios
Contact: Suzanne Kiertianis
Phone: 207/799-5154
email: suzannek@artascope.com
Web: www.artnightout.com

Disciplines: Jewelry

"Seeking Stories: Paintings in Oil, Wax and Water," Opening Reception
Exhibit
05:00PM
Cerulean Fine Art Gallery
202 Water Street
Hallowell   Map

Solo Exhibit of Helene Farrar's mixed media works unveils at Cerulean Fine Art Gallery.

For more information:
Sponsor: Cerulean Fine Arts Gallery^
Contact: Janna Civittolo
Phone: 207/626-9009
email: info@ceruleanart.com
Web: www.ceruleanart.com

Disciplines: Visual Arts/Crafts

Night Sky (Fiber Optic) Gallery
Exhibit
06:00PM

Optic light and encaustic wax artist Michael Parent holds open his Night Sky Gallery in Gray, ME. Fine art Fiber Optics are exhibited and celebrate the ambience of the night sky (stars & fireflies)! Look for the lights on rt 115 (Gray Exit) just near the new 'McDonalds'(c) accross from 200year old Congregational church for limited hours (Fri or Sat Nights or by appt) - please contact by michaelparent@orbitart.com 480-290-2620

Cost:Original pieces of encaustic wax art embedded with Fiber Optic Light (Stars & Fireflies) range from $400.00 - $600.00

For more information:
Contact: Michael Parent
Phone: 480/290-2620
email: michaelparent@orbitart.com
Web: www.OrbitArt.com

Disciplines: Multi-Disiplinary

Graham Parker
Performance
07:30PM
Shangri-La
192 Main Street
Ellsworth   Map

One of the most successful singer/songwriters to emerge from England's pup rock scene of the early 70's.

Cost:$25 general admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Shangri-La
Contact: Joel Raymond
Phone: 207/667-2200
email: joshuaemerson@gmail.com
Web: shangri-laspace.com

Disciplines: Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Les Miserables
Performance
07:30PM
Chocolate Church Art Center
798 Washington St
Bath   Map

This theatrical play is originally adapted from Victor Hugo's timeless novel, Les Miserables. The epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and becomes an honest man and a loving adoptive father. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him for suspicious activity. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a student uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with his adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel redeemed.

Cost:$11-$16 Call our box office at 207-442-8455 or order online at www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information:
Sponsor: Chocolate Church Arts Center
Contact: Box Office 12-4pm Tues.-Sat.
Phone: 207/442-8455
email: info@chocolatechurcharts.org
Web: www.chocolatechurcharts.org

Disciplines: Acting, Community, Childrens, Performance

2nd Friday ArtWalk
Exhibit

After a long winter the warmth of the sun and the lengthening days feel particularly wonderful. Why not extend the day in a great way by taking part in a rite of spring in our community and take part in the Second Friday ArtWalk this Friday, May 9, 5-8 pm in Brunswick & Topsham. More than two dozen studios, galleries and restaurants open their doors for the Art Walk on Friday evening. Stay for dinner and enjoy music, theater or film "apres art."

Cost:Free

For more information:
Sponsor: Five Rivers Arts Alliance
Contact: Harriet A. Mosher
Phone: 207/798-6964
email: info@fiveriversartsalliance.org
Web: www.fiveriversartsalliance.org/events/artwalk2ndfriday.aspx

Disciplines: Visual Arts/Crafts, Fiber, Painting, Multi-Disiplinary

Alex Katz and Friends
Exhibit

The Farnsworth's commitment to contemporary art has been intimately tied to Alex Katz, New York-born artist who has worked in Maine since 1950 and has established an international reputation as one of the country's foremost realist painters. Thanks to him and to other donors, the museum owns more than 30 of his works. Katz has also played an important role in expanding and improving the museum's holdings of contemporary art through a series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation. These include pieces by friends and contemporaries Sylvia Plimak Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Hunt Slonem, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, Juan Gomez and Julian Opie. Their work will also be included in this must-see tribute to Alex Katz. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

An Era of Challenge: The Conferences of World War II
Exhibit

Good Will-Hinckley
Bishop Auditorium - Prescott Building
Route 201
Hinckley   Map

On view at the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery. The Margaret Chase Smith Gallery is in the Dorothy Alfond Visitors Center at Good Will-Hinckley on Route 201 in Hinckley, Maine. Admission is free. The Visitors Center is typically open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. To confirm the hours or inquire about directions, please phone (207) 238-4280 or visit www.gwh.org. A photo exhibit of the major policy defining conferences taking place between the years 1941 to 1945 to strategize about the end of the war, make plans for peace, and formulate the principles of the United Nations. It features photographs of prominent world leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Cost:Admission is Free Located in the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery in the Visitors Center on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley

For more information:
Sponsor: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Contact: Sheri Leahan
Phone: 207/474-7133
email: mcsl@mcslibrary.org
Web: www.gwh.org

Disciplines: Historical

Artwork by Linda Lawson Miller
Exhibit

Watercolors, acrylics and mixed media of landscapes and still-life settings being shown in the lobby of the Sebasticook Valley Federal Credit Union, Somerset Ave., Pittsfield; Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm

Cost:none

For more information:
Contact: Linda Miller
Phone: 207/368-5153
email: linda@millerart.com
Web: www.valleyartsalliance.org/index.php/VAA-members/Linda-Miller.html

Disciplines: Painting

Louise Nevelson
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

One of the most significant events in the Farnsworth's contemporary art programs was the 1980 legacy of Nathan Berliawsky who bequeathed the museum 20 works by his sister, famed American sculptor and Rockland youth Louise Nevelson. Gifts of another 55 works by the artist herself between 1981 and 1985, and pieces from other family members and donors, as well as the museum's 1979 purchase of her 1959 white sculpture Dawn Column I, have given the Farnsworth the second largest public collection of Nevelson's work in the world. The collection will be shown nearly in its entirety for the first time, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's career and encompassing her work in sculpture, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting, Sculpture

Picturing the Decades - 60 years of photography
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

When the Farnsworth opened in 1948, the medium of photography was already more than 100 years old. In the relatively short time since then the museum has collected more than 1,400 photographs. These include early documents of Rockland's history as well as works by photographers closely associated with the Rockland area such as Kosti Ruohomaa, Carroll Berry Thayer and Jim Moore. The collection has grown to embrace works by internationally respected photographers who have worked in Maine?Berenice Abbott, Paul Caponigro, Rudy Burckhardt, George Tice, Eliot Porter and Joyce Tenneson, among others. This exhibition will survey the Farnsworth's distinguished photography collection. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Photography

The Farnsworth and the Art of Our Time
Exhibit

In its early years, the Farnsworth used its modest acquisition funds to buy pieces by the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who had worked in Maine, inaugurating what was to become the museum's mission-to celebrate Maine's role in the history of American art. Since then, however, that original focus has expanded to include contemporary artists-from the young Andrew Wyeth and other realist-based figures such as Will Barnett, Neil Welliver, Richard Estes, Fairfield Porter and Yvonne Jacquette, to those more closely allied to various veins of American abstraction, among them Milton Avery, Robert Indiana, Kenneth Noland, Leon Polk Smith, David von Schlegell and Italo Scanga. This exciting exhibition focuses on the museum's ongoing engagement with contemporary art. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Uncommon Treasures: Folk Art from the Farnsworth
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

This exhibition celebrates the Farnsworth's rich holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American folk art. There are paintings by the nationally renowned Grandma Moses, the Blue Hill, Maine, preacher Jonathan Fisher, and, fittingly, a portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth. Folk art takes many forms and the museum's collection contains a carved wood figurehead of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a gilded copper weather vane of the pace horse Ethan Allen by the W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston, a carved and painted wood pilot-house eagle by John Haley Bellamy, and a painted child's rocking chair. Quilts, samplers and a rare surviving ship's banner from the late nineteenth-century sailing ship Alice A. Hall will also be shown, along with toys which include a rocking horse, a checkerboard, a child-sized Bissell carpet sweeper and a Boys National tool chest. An 1850 painted panoramic view of downtown Rockland by Samuel A. Fuller is included in these examples of American folk art from the Farnsworth's collection. This exhibition is part of the Maine Folk Art Trail, a statewide celebration of folk art in eleven museums across the state. The museum is closed on Mondays.

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums

May 10, 2008

Art Night Out- Free Form Stained Glass Panel
Workshop/Class
02:00PM
Artascope Studios
352 Cottage Road
South Portland

Learn the secrets of stained glass while creating a dazzling accent for your home! Use one of our designs, or create your own! We have a colorful selection of glass to inspire you as you learn to cut, grind, tape and solder your panel. Makes one panel.

Cost:$65

For more information:
Sponsor: Artascope Studios
Contact: Suzanne Kiertianis
Phone: 207/799-5154
email: suzannek@artascope.com
Web: www.artnightout.com

Disciplines: Stained glass

Portland Ballet Company's "Peter and the Wolf"
Performance
02:00PM
John Ford Theatre
Portland High School
Portland   Map

Portland Ballet students combine dance, music and story-telling in their delightful presentation of the classic children's tale "Peter and the Wolf," Saturday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Portland High School's John Ford Theater. For more information about Portland Ballet, its school and programs, visit www.portlandballet.org or call 207-772-9671.

Cost:Advance-sale tickets are $4 for students and $9 for adults and are now available at all Bull Moose locations. Day-of-performance tickets will be sold at the door for $5 for students and $10 for adults.

For more information:
Sponsor: gBritt PR
Contact: Gillian Britt
Phone: 207/775-2126
email: gillian@gbritt.com

Disciplines: Ballet

Artist Talk: Helene Farrar
Lecture
03:00PM
Cerulean Fine Art Gallery
202 Water Street
Hallowell   Map

Artist Helene Farrar will speak of her recent body of mixed media work featured in her solo exhibit.

For more information:
Sponsor: Cerulean Fine Arts Gallery^
Contact: Janna Civittolo
Phone: 207/626-9009
email: info@ceruleanart.com
Web: www.ceruleanart.com

Disciplines: Visual Arts/Crafts

Night Sky (Fiber Optic) Gallery
Exhibit
06:00PM

Optic light and encaustic wax artist Michael Parent holds open his Night Sky Gallery in Gray, ME. Fine art Fiber Optics are exhibited and celebrate the ambience of the night sky (stars & fireflies)! Look for the lights on rt 115 (Gray Exit) just near the new 'McDonalds'(c) accross from 200year old Congregational church for limited hours (Fri or Sat Nights or by appt) - please contact by michaelparent@orbitart.com 480-290-2620

Cost:Original pieces of encaustic wax art embedded with Fiber Optic Light (Stars & Fireflies) range from $400.00 - $600.00

For more information:
Contact: Michael Parent
Phone: 480/290-2620
email: michaelparent@orbitart.com
Web: www.OrbitArt.com

Disciplines: Multi-Disiplinary

Les Miserables
Performance
07:30PM
Chocolate Church Art Center
798 Washington St
Bath   Map

This theatrical play is originally adapted from Victor Hugo's timeless novel, Les Miserables. The epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and becomes an honest man and a loving adoptive father. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him for suspicious activity. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a student uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with his adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel redeemed.

Cost:$11-$16 Call our box office at 207-442-8455 or order online at www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information:
Sponsor: Chocolate Church Arts Center
Contact: Box Office 12-4pm Tues.-Sat.
Phone: 207/442-8455
email: info@chocolatechurcharts.org
Web: www.chocolatechurcharts.org

Disciplines: Acting, Community, Childrens, Performance

Alex Katz and Friends
Exhibit

The Farnsworth's commitment to contemporary art has been intimately tied to Alex Katz, New York-born artist who has worked in Maine since 1950 and has established an international reputation as one of the country's foremost realist painters. Thanks to him and to other donors, the museum owns more than 30 of his works. Katz has also played an important role in expanding and improving the museum's holdings of contemporary art through a series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation. These include pieces by friends and contemporaries Sylvia Plimak Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Hunt Slonem, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, Juan Gomez and Julian Opie. Their work will also be included in this must-see tribute to Alex Katz. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Louise Nevelson
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

One of the most significant events in the Farnsworth's contemporary art programs was the 1980 legacy of Nathan Berliawsky who bequeathed the museum 20 works by his sister, famed American sculptor and Rockland youth Louise Nevelson. Gifts of another 55 works by the artist herself between 1981 and 1985, and pieces from other family members and donors, as well as the museum's 1979 purchase of her 1959 white sculpture Dawn Column I, have given the Farnsworth the second largest public collection of Nevelson's work in the world. The collection will be shown nearly in its entirety for the first time, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's career and encompassing her work in sculpture, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting, Sculpture

Picturing the Decades - 60 years of photography
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

When the Farnsworth opened in 1948, the medium of photography was already more than 100 years old. In the relatively short time since then the museum has collected more than 1,400 photographs. These include early documents of Rockland's history as well as works by photographers closely associated with the Rockland area such as Kosti Ruohomaa, Carroll Berry Thayer and Jim Moore. The collection has grown to embrace works by internationally respected photographers who have worked in Maine?Berenice Abbott, Paul Caponigro, Rudy Burckhardt, George Tice, Eliot Porter and Joyce Tenneson, among others. This exhibition will survey the Farnsworth's distinguished photography collection. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Photography

The Farnsworth and the Art of Our Time
Exhibit

In its early years, the Farnsworth used its modest acquisition funds to buy pieces by the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who had worked in Maine, inaugurating what was to become the museum's mission-to celebrate Maine's role in the history of American art. Since then, however, that original focus has expanded to include contemporary artists-from the young Andrew Wyeth and other realist-based figures such as Will Barnett, Neil Welliver, Richard Estes, Fairfield Porter and Yvonne Jacquette, to those more closely allied to various veins of American abstraction, among them Milton Avery, Robert Indiana, Kenneth Noland, Leon Polk Smith, David von Schlegell and Italo Scanga. This exciting exhibition focuses on the museum's ongoing engagement with contemporary art. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Uncommon Treasures: Folk Art from the Farnsworth
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

This exhibition celebrates the Farnsworth's rich holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American folk art. There are paintings by the nationally renowned Grandma Moses, the Blue Hill, Maine, preacher Jonathan Fisher, and, fittingly, a portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth. Folk art takes many forms and the museum's collection contains a carved wood figurehead of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a gilded copper weather vane of the pace horse Ethan Allen by the W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston, a carved and painted wood pilot-house eagle by John Haley Bellamy, and a painted child's rocking chair. Quilts, samplers and a rare surviving ship's banner from the late nineteenth-century sailing ship Alice A. Hall will also be shown, along with toys which include a rocking horse, a checkerboard, a child-sized Bissell carpet sweeper and a Boys National tool chest. An 1850 painted panoramic view of downtown Rockland by Samuel A. Fuller is included in these examples of American folk art from the Farnsworth's collection. This exhibition is part of the Maine Folk Art Trail, a statewide celebration of folk art in eleven museums across the state. The museum is closed on Mondays.

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums

May 11, 2008

Classical Series Finale Concert
Performance
03:00PM
Bangor Auditorium
100 Dutton Street
Bangor   Map

Maestro Xiao-Lu Li conducts the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Famous Fifth Finales of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Schubert. Tickets available at the Bangor Auditorium, 207.947.5555

Cost:$10 - $13

For more information:
Sponsor: Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Phone: 207/942-5555
email: symphony@bangorsymphony.com
Web: bangorsymphony.com

Disciplines: Classical

Les Miserables
Performance
07:30PM
Chocolate Church Art Center
798 Washington St
Bath   Map

This theatrical play is originally adapted from Victor Hugo's timeless novel, Les Miserables. The epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and becomes an honest man and a loving adoptive father. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him for suspicious activity. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a student uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with his adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel redeemed.

Cost:$11-$16 Call our box office at 207-442-8455 or order online at www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information:
Sponsor: Chocolate Church Arts Center
Contact: Box Office 12-4pm Tues.-Sat.
Phone: 207/442-8455
email: info@chocolatechurcharts.org
Web: www.chocolatechurcharts.org

Disciplines: Acting, Community, Childrens, Performance

Mother's Day Musical Fun & Storytime for Young Children up to age 7 with parent
Other
12:15PM
Curtis Memorial Library
23 Pleaseant St.
Brunswick   Map

Happy Mother's Day! We'll sing, sway, rock, bounce, shake and tap instruments, dance with scarves, gallop like ponies and buzz like bees, and sing along with a musical book or two. Parents will participate right along with their children for an invigorating and imaginative musical playtime. Some special activities and a little "something" for each mom to go home with. Led by Tammis Lareau, Musikgarten Educator.

Cost:Free

For more information:
Sponsor: Happy Day Music
Contact: Tammis Lareau
Phone: 207/373-0771
email: tammis@happydaymusic.com
Web: www.happydaymusic.com

Disciplines: Dance, Music, Childrens literature

Alex Katz and Friends
Exhibit

The Farnsworth's commitment to contemporary art has been intimately tied to Alex Katz, New York-born artist who has worked in Maine since 1950 and has established an international reputation as one of the country's foremost realist painters. Thanks to him and to other donors, the museum owns more than 30 of his works. Katz has also played an important role in expanding and improving the museum's holdings of contemporary art through a series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation. These include pieces by friends and contemporaries Sylvia Plimak Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Hunt Slonem, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, Juan Gomez and Julian Opie. Their work will also be included in this must-see tribute to Alex Katz. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Borromeo String Quartet
Performance

Minsky Recital Hall
School of Performing Arts, UMaine
Orono   Map

A new composition Elliott Schwartz, a resident of Freeport and the Robert K. Beckwith Emeritus Professor of Music at Bowdoin Colege, is a prolific composer. His work has been played at universities and conservatories world-wide, in addition to the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Library of Congress in Washington. Following the premiere in Portland, the BSQ will perform the piece at the University of Maine in Orono on May 11. The Maine Center for the Arts has provided commissioning support for this project. A special project brings the Borromeo back to the MCA. The MCA is excited to be co-commissioners with Portland Concert Association. Esteemed composer Elliot Schwartz will be writing a quartet for the Borromeos. The Borromeo String Quartet has been named winners of the 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grants, worth $25,000. Since their explosive debut in 1989 the Borromeo have become one of the most sought after strings quartets in the world and perform over 100 concerts each season across three continents. Audiences and critics alike championed the Quartet's revealing explorations of both classical and contemporary literature and its affinity for making challenging repertoire approachable.

Disciplines: Music, Instrumental

Louise Nevelson
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

One of the most significant events in the Farnsworth's contemporary art programs was the 1980 legacy of Nathan Berliawsky who bequeathed the museum 20 works by his sister, famed American sculptor and Rockland youth Louise Nevelson. Gifts of another 55 works by the artist herself between 1981 and 1985, and pieces from other family members and donors, as well as the museum's 1979 purchase of her 1959 white sculpture Dawn Column I, have given the Farnsworth the second largest public collection of Nevelson's work in the world. The collection will be shown nearly in its entirety for the first time, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's career and encompassing her work in sculpture, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting, Sculpture

North Sea Gas
Performance

One Longfellow Square
Portland

With a combination of instruments including guitar, mandolin, bodhran, banjo, whistle, mandola, bouzouki, mouth organ complementing fine vocals, harmonies and a keen sense of humor, an entertaining evening is guaranteed.

Cost:$12 adv/$15 door

For more information:
Sponsor: One Longfellow Square
Contact: Christian Stevens
Phone: 207/761-1757
email: christian@onelongfellowsquare.com

Disciplines: Folk/Traditional

Picturing the Decades - 60 years of photography
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

When the Farnsworth opened in 1948, the medium of photography was already more than 100 years old. In the relatively short time since then the museum has collected more than 1,400 photographs. These include early documents of Rockland's history as well as works by photographers closely associated with the Rockland area such as Kosti Ruohomaa, Carroll Berry Thayer and Jim Moore. The collection has grown to embrace works by internationally respected photographers who have worked in Maine?Berenice Abbott, Paul Caponigro, Rudy Burckhardt, George Tice, Eliot Porter and Joyce Tenneson, among others. This exhibition will survey the Farnsworth's distinguished photography collection. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Photography

Slaid Cleaves
Performance

One Longfellow Square
Portland

Austin, Texas Singer/Songwriter Slaid Cleaves "tells gorgeously compact stories in a voice packed with Texas trail dust." (Entertainment Weekly)

Cost:$17 adv/$20 door

For more information:
Sponsor: One Longfellow Square
Contact: Christian Stevens
Phone: 207/761-1757
email: christian@onelongfellowsquare.com

Disciplines: Music

The Farnsworth and the Art of Our Time
Exhibit

In its early years, the Farnsworth used its modest acquisition funds to buy pieces by the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who had worked in Maine, inaugurating what was to become the museum's mission-to celebrate Maine's role in the history of American art. Since then, however, that original focus has expanded to include contemporary artists-from the young Andrew Wyeth and other realist-based figures such as Will Barnett, Neil Welliver, Richard Estes, Fairfield Porter and Yvonne Jacquette, to those more closely allied to various veins of American abstraction, among them Milton Avery, Robert Indiana, Kenneth Noland, Leon Polk Smith, David von Schlegell and Italo Scanga. This exciting exhibition focuses on the museum's ongoing engagement with contemporary art. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Uncommon Treasures: Folk Art from the Farnsworth
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

This exhibition celebrates the Farnsworth's rich holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American folk art. There are paintings by the nationally renowned Grandma Moses, the Blue Hill, Maine, preacher Jonathan Fisher, and, fittingly, a portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth. Folk art takes many forms and the museum's collection contains a carved wood figurehead of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a gilded copper weather vane of the pace horse Ethan Allen by the W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston, a carved and painted wood pilot-house eagle by John Haley Bellamy, and a painted child's rocking chair. Quilts, samplers and a rare surviving ship's banner from the late nineteenth-century sailing ship Alice A. Hall will also be shown, along with toys which include a rocking horse, a checkerboard, a child-sized Bissell carpet sweeper and a Boys National tool chest. An 1850 painted panoramic view of downtown Rockland by Samuel A. Fuller is included in these examples of American folk art from the Farnsworth's collection. This exhibition is part of the Maine Folk Art Trail, a statewide celebration of folk art in eleven museums across the state. The museum is closed on Mondays.

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums

May 12, 2008

Art Night Out- Hand Dyed Scarf
Workshop/Class
06:00PM
Artascope Studios
352 Cottage Road
South Portland

This lightweight scarf is sure to compliment your wardrobe! Learn about fiber-reactive dyes as you choose your pallette. We will share some tips and tricks about tie- resist methods to aide in the design of your ravishing hand-dyed scarf! Makes one scarf.

Cost:$45

For more information:
Sponsor: Artascope Studios
Contact: Suzanne Kiertianis
Phone: 207/799-5154
email: suzannek@artascope.com
Web: www.artnightout.com

Disciplines: Visual Arts/Crafts

Figure Drawing
Workshop/Class
06:00PM
Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education
24 Lincoln Street
Rockland   Map

This is an opportunity to draw from a live model with a fun group of people, all abilities welcome

Cost:$15 per class or $110 for 8 sessions. Cost goes down with more than 6 people in attendance, so bring a friend!

For more information:
Phone: 207/594-6490
email: info@lincolnstreetcenter.org
Web: www.lincolnstreetcenter.org

Disciplines: Visual Arts/Crafts, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking

Les Miserables
Performance
07:30PM
Chocolate Church Art Center
798 Washington St
Bath   Map

This theatrical play is originally adapted from Victor Hugo's timeless novel, Les Miserables. The epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and becomes an honest man and a loving adoptive father. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him for suspicious activity. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a student uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with his adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel redeemed.

Cost:$11-$16 Call our box office at 207-442-8455 or order online at www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information:
Sponsor: Chocolate Church Arts Center
Contact: Box Office 12-4pm Tues.-Sat.
Phone: 207/442-8455
email: info@chocolatechurcharts.org
Web: www.chocolatechurcharts.org

Disciplines: Acting, Community, Childrens, Performance

Alex Katz and Friends
Exhibit

The Farnsworth's commitment to contemporary art has been intimately tied to Alex Katz, New York-born artist who has worked in Maine since 1950 and has established an international reputation as one of the country's foremost realist painters. Thanks to him and to other donors, the museum owns more than 30 of his works. Katz has also played an important role in expanding and improving the museum's holdings of contemporary art through a series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation. These include pieces by friends and contemporaries Sylvia Plimak Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Hunt Slonem, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, Juan Gomez and Julian Opie. Their work will also be included in this must-see tribute to Alex Katz. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

An Era of Challenge: The Conferences of World War II
Exhibit

Good Will-Hinckley
Bishop Auditorium - Prescott Building
Route 201
Hinckley   Map

On view at the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery. The Margaret Chase Smith Gallery is in the Dorothy Alfond Visitors Center at Good Will-Hinckley on Route 201 in Hinckley, Maine. Admission is free. The Visitors Center is typically open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. To confirm the hours or inquire about directions, please phone (207) 238-4280 or visit www.gwh.org. A photo exhibit of the major policy defining conferences taking place between the years 1941 to 1945 to strategize about the end of the war, make plans for peace, and formulate the principles of the United Nations. It features photographs of prominent world leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Cost:Admission is Free Located in the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery in the Visitors Center on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley

For more information:
Sponsor: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Contact: Sheri Leahan
Phone: 207/474-7133
email: mcsl@mcslibrary.org
Web: www.gwh.org

Disciplines: Historical

Artwork by Linda Lawson Miller
Exhibit

Watercolors, acrylics and mixed media of landscapes and still-life settings being shown in the lobby of the Sebasticook Valley Federal Credit Union, Somerset Ave., Pittsfield; Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm

Cost:none

For more information:
Contact: Linda Miller
Phone: 207/368-5153
email: linda@millerart.com
Web: www.valleyartsalliance.org/index.php/VAA-members/Linda-Miller.html

Disciplines: Painting

Louise Nevelson
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

One of the most significant events in the Farnsworth's contemporary art programs was the 1980 legacy of Nathan Berliawsky who bequeathed the museum 20 works by his sister, famed American sculptor and Rockland youth Louise Nevelson. Gifts of another 55 works by the artist herself between 1981 and 1985, and pieces from other family members and donors, as well as the museum's 1979 purchase of her 1959 white sculpture Dawn Column I, have given the Farnsworth the second largest public collection of Nevelson's work in the world. The collection will be shown nearly in its entirety for the first time, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's career and encompassing her work in sculpture, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting, Sculpture

Picturing the Decades - 60 years of photography
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

When the Farnsworth opened in 1948, the medium of photography was already more than 100 years old. In the relatively short time since then the museum has collected more than 1,400 photographs. These include early documents of Rockland's history as well as works by photographers closely associated with the Rockland area such as Kosti Ruohomaa, Carroll Berry Thayer and Jim Moore. The collection has grown to embrace works by internationally respected photographers who have worked in Maine?Berenice Abbott, Paul Caponigro, Rudy Burckhardt, George Tice, Eliot Porter and Joyce Tenneson, among others. This exhibition will survey the Farnsworth's distinguished photography collection. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Photography

The Farnsworth and the Art of Our Time
Exhibit

In its early years, the Farnsworth used its modest acquisition funds to buy pieces by the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who had worked in Maine, inaugurating what was to become the museum's mission-to celebrate Maine's role in the history of American art. Since then, however, that original focus has expanded to include contemporary artists-from the young Andrew Wyeth and other realist-based figures such as Will Barnett, Neil Welliver, Richard Estes, Fairfield Porter and Yvonne Jacquette, to those more closely allied to various veins of American abstraction, among them Milton Avery, Robert Indiana, Kenneth Noland, Leon Polk Smith, David von Schlegell and Italo Scanga. This exciting exhibition focuses on the museum's ongoing engagement with contemporary art. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

Uncommon Treasures: Folk Art from the Farnsworth
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

This exhibition celebrates the Farnsworth's rich holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American folk art. There are paintings by the nationally renowned Grandma Moses, the Blue Hill, Maine, preacher Jonathan Fisher, and, fittingly, a portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth. Folk art takes many forms and the museum's collection contains a carved wood figurehead of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a gilded copper weather vane of the pace horse Ethan Allen by the W.A. Snow Ironworks of Boston, a carved and painted wood pilot-house eagle by John Haley Bellamy, and a painted child's rocking chair. Quilts, samplers and a rare surviving ship's banner from the late nineteenth-century sailing ship Alice A. Hall will also be shown, along with toys which include a rocking horse, a checkerboard, a child-sized Bissell carpet sweeper and a Boys National tool chest. An 1850 painted panoramic view of downtown Rockland by Samuel A. Fuller is included in these examples of American folk art from the Farnsworth's collection. This exhibition is part of the Maine Folk Art Trail, a statewide celebration of folk art in eleven museums across the state. The museum is closed on Mondays.

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums

May 13, 2008

Morning Movie Play Date
Screening
10:00AM
Center Theatre for the Performing Arts
20 East Main Street
Dover-Foxcroft   Map

Beginning a tradition at the Center Theatre, we invite parents and their young children to the Theatre every Tuesday morning for a movie play date. We'll be showing classic cartoons, old movies, and family favorites. The lights will be a little brighter than usual so you can see your kids running around, and you'll never have to worry about the movie rating.

Cost:$2.00 each

For more information:
Sponsor: Center Theatre, Inc.
Contact: Patrick Myers
Phone: 207/564-8943
email: pmyers@centertheatre.org
Web: www.CenterTheatre.org

Disciplines: Film/video

Les Miserables
Performance
07:30PM
Chocolate Church Art Center
798 Washington St
Bath   Map

This theatrical play is originally adapted from Victor Hugo's timeless novel, Les Miserables. The epic story recounts the struggle against adversity in 19th century France. Imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, petty thief Jean Valjean is released from his 19-year term and becomes an honest man and a loving adoptive father. The relentless Inspector Javert, who makes life for Valjean impossible, consequently pursues him for suspicious activity. Only years later, after Valjean proves his mettle during a student uprising and saves the life of a young man in love with his adopted daughter, does the ex-convict finally feel redeemed.

Cost:$11-$16 Call our box office at 207-442-8455 or order online at www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information:
Sponsor: Chocolate Church Arts Center
Contact: Box Office 12-4pm Tues.-Sat.
Phone: 207/442-8455
email: info@chocolatechurcharts.org
Web: www.chocolatechurcharts.org

Disciplines: Acting, Community, Childrens, Performance

Alex Katz and Friends
Exhibit

The Farnsworth's commitment to contemporary art has been intimately tied to Alex Katz, New York-born artist who has worked in Maine since 1950 and has established an international reputation as one of the country's foremost realist painters. Thanks to him and to other donors, the museum owns more than 30 of his works. Katz has also played an important role in expanding and improving the museum's holdings of contemporary art through a series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation. These include pieces by friends and contemporaries Sylvia Plimak Mangold, Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Hunt Slonem, Red Grooms, Francesco Clemente, Juan Gomez and Julian Opie. Their work will also be included in this must-see tribute to Alex Katz. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: www.farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting

An Era of Challenge: The Conferences of World War II
Exhibit

Good Will-Hinckley
Bishop Auditorium - Prescott Building
Route 201
Hinckley   Map

On view at the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery. The Margaret Chase Smith Gallery is in the Dorothy Alfond Visitors Center at Good Will-Hinckley on Route 201 in Hinckley, Maine. Admission is free. The Visitors Center is typically open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. To confirm the hours or inquire about directions, please phone (207) 238-4280 or visit www.gwh.org. A photo exhibit of the major policy defining conferences taking place between the years 1941 to 1945 to strategize about the end of the war, make plans for peace, and formulate the principles of the United Nations. It features photographs of prominent world leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Cost:Admission is Free Located in the Margaret Chase Smith Gallery in the Visitors Center on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley

For more information:
Sponsor: Margaret Chase Smith Library
Contact: Sheri Leahan
Phone: 207/474-7133
email: mcsl@mcslibrary.org
Web: www.gwh.org

Disciplines: Historical

Artwork by Linda Lawson Miller
Exhibit

Watercolors, acrylics and mixed media of landscapes and still-life settings being shown in the lobby of the Sebasticook Valley Federal Credit Union, Somerset Ave., Pittsfield; Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm

Cost:none

For more information:
Contact: Linda Miller
Phone: 207/368-5153
email: linda@millerart.com
Web: www.valleyartsalliance.org/index.php/VAA-members/Linda-Miller.html

Disciplines: Painting

Louise Nevelson
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

One of the most significant events in the Farnsworth's contemporary art programs was the 1980 legacy of Nathan Berliawsky who bequeathed the museum 20 works by his sister, famed American sculptor and Rockland youth Louise Nevelson. Gifts of another 55 works by the artist herself between 1981 and 1985, and pieces from other family members and donors, as well as the museum's 1979 purchase of her 1959 white sculpture Dawn Column I, have given the Farnsworth the second largest public collection of Nevelson's work in the world. The collection will be shown nearly in its entirety for the first time, spanning more than 40 years of the artist's career and encompassing her work in sculpture, prints, paintings, drawings and jewelry. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Painting, Sculpture

Picturing the Decades - 60 years of photography
Exhibit

Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland   Map

When the Farnsworth opened in 1948, the medium of photography was already more than 100 years old. In the relatively short time since then the museum has collected more than 1,400 photographs. These include early documents of Rockland's history as well as works by photographers closely associated with the Rockland area such as Kosti Ruohomaa, Carroll Berry Thayer and Jim Moore. The collection has grown to embrace works by internationally respected photographers who have worked in Maine?Berenice Abbott, Paul Caponigro, Rudy Burckhardt, George Tice, Eliot Porter and Joyce Tenneson, among others. This exhibition will survey the Farnsworth's distinguished photography collection. The museum is closed on Mondays.

Cost:Museum admission

For more information:
Sponsor: Farnsworth Art Museum
Contact: David Troup
Phone: 207/596-6457
email: dtroup@farnsworthmuseum.org
Web: farnsworthmuseum.org

Disciplines: Museums, Photography

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