HALLOWELL Vienna artist is People’s Choice at Harlow Gallery Ross Grams of Vienna won the People’s Choice Award at Art2011, the 16th annual juried art show at the Harlow Gallery. Visitors were invited to vote for a favorite work of art. Grams won $100, sponsored by the Animal Wellness Center of Augusta, for his oil […]

I truly hope it becomes the standard practice of Maine’s art-viewing public to attend the exhibitions at the art schools and colleges in Maine featuring the work of students about to graduate with degrees. These shows not only help us keep up with Maine’s schools and the progress of our students, but they also invite […]

ROCKLAND — Paul Caponigro is one of the most important American landscape photographers of his generation. He is still very much alive and living in Cushing in midcoast Maine. This summer, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland features a selection of his black-and-white silver gelatin prints. “Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places” is on […]

ROCKPORT — Suzette McAvoy took on the job as director of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art because of the challenge of turning around a beloved organization. Two years ago, CMCA almost went under. The organization teetered on financial ruin, and when the doors closed on the 2009 season, many people in the Maine art […]

Lewiston writer James L. Witherell pens a friendly new biography of Maine legend L.L. Bean and the company that bears his name.