Elizabeth Messler is guest artist at Centre St Arts Gallery, LLC, opening with a reception from 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 13, at 11 Centre St., Bath.

The new show features several new works by Elizabeth Messler and member artists of Centre St. Arts Gallery, and will run through April 25.

Messler began her formal art training at the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N.Y., where she studied with Ernest Thorne Thompson, N.W.S. and earned a B.A. degree in Art. Following college, she worked in New York City at F. Schumacher & Co. as assistant to the buyer of printed fabrics and wallpaper. Further studies included Sally Spiegel of New Haven and Madison, Connecticut; Barbara Nechis, AWS of Maine Coast Artists, Port Clyde; and Frances Hodsdon in printmaking at Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta.

Messler has exhibited widely in Maine and New England in juried shows, such as the Yarmouth Arts Festival; “ArtinME,” at Boothbay Region Art Foundation; 10X10 exhibitions, Brunswick; Maine Art Gallery; Chocolate Church Arts Center; Harlow Gallery, Hallowell; Waterville Open Artists Shows; New England Watercolor Society; River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta; River Tree Arts; and Round Top Center for the Arts. Gallery affiliations have included Fore Street Gallery, Portland; York Village Gallery, York; West Island Gallery, Georgetown; Markings Gallery in Bath and Centre Street Gallery in Bath.

Messler has received awards from International Artist Magazine for an abstract botanical watercolor in an international competition; an award in a New England Watercolor Society juried show; and also the “Distinguished Artists” award in a juried show at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath,. She received an honorable mention award in “ArtinME” juried show in Boothbay in 2011.

Community arts include serving on the Midcoast Regional Economic & Development committee with members of the Maine Arts Commission to define the economic impact of the arts in the region, and then becoming involved in the Arts and Cultural Directory of Bath — which merged with Brunswick to form the Five Rivers Arts Alliance. Messler has also been affiliated with the Chocolate Church Arts Center serving as a member of the Board of Trustees and also as a member of the Gallery Committee.

Messler’s teaching experience has been with the adult education classes in Bath, watercolor workshops in the Studio Space at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath and more recently with workshops at the Centre Street Gallery in Bath.