Hi...  did not have the bandwidth to hunt down and ID all the folks... so if you want to tag yourself, I guess you could do so in the comments...  But here are the photos that I shot during the event... I do know who was behind that mask  Anthony Anderson from the #MaineGallery+StudioGuide UMVA Board Member Janice L. Moore Ave Melnick with Board Member Joanne Tarlin and other person Janice L. Moore with Anthony Anderson Daniel Sipe with a friend and ARRT!! Director Natasha Mayers A Saucy skirted pirate and UMVA president David Estey Bookhead Sweettooth - minus board member Al Crichton (he was sick) UMVA President David Estey and Treasurer Richard Kane (who also runs the Maine Masters project) Board member Barbara Sullivan in gray top Board member Emily Sabino  The hat this fellow wears references a UMVA Broccoli Protest which Carlo Pittore helped lead in Kennebunkport, in front of the Bush mansion there.  UMVA Vice President Joanne Tarlin Now, here are the...

 The first section of this photo blog will be photos from  by John Woytowicz...Special thanks for letting us use them. This will conclude part one of the photos from the Gala, as I still need to process the high resolution files down to web sized... 

  Midcoast Meeting September, Belfast Free Library Eighteen members and friends in attendance, some new to the area Introduced ourselves and shared a bit about our art practices. Confirmed not having a summer meeting as people are too busy and there’s lots of art happenings going on  Agreed to keep to bi-monthly meetings alternating between Belfast Free Library and Camden Public Library, second Saturdays. There was strong interest in focusing on tech issues for the November meet-up, including features and demos of the new website if possible. Gather your questions! Bring your expertise! Shanna Compton updated us on the progress of the UMVA website upgrade, which promises exciting features such as member pages, blogs we could submit exhibition announcements to, resources, calls for art etc. ETA November (hopefully). Gail Wartell updated on how the Alternative Visions show went, and Arlene Leighton and Liv Kristen Robinson spoke a bit about the upcoming Dark Skies Exhi...

  The Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA) - Midcoast Chapter, in partnership with the Friends of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Rockland, presents “REFUGE”, a dynamic exhibition of artwork inspired by the unique beauty found in and around Maine’s coastal islands .  The exhibit opens with an artists’ reception on September 27th from 5 to 7 pm at the gallery at the Visitor’s Center, 9 Water St., Rockland, ME.  The gallery is open during the Visitor Center’s open hours from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.  The exhibit continues to Dec 13, 2024.    "Pemiquid Parkbellhouse" by  Bernadette de Cesare   Contemporary realist painter Jane Dahmen juried this exhibit which features both representational and abstract works. Dahmen, whose landscapes explore the coastal regions of midcoast Maine, has shown in solo and group shows both within the U.S. and abroad. She is represented by The Portland Art Gallery.  Viewers c...

  Magic, Myth, Machine & Matter is the title of the September 6 – 29, 2024 UMVA (Union of Maine Visual Artists) exhibition at the Oak Street Lofts Gallery, 72 Oak St., Portland, Maine featuring UMVA members Eva Rose Goetz, Gregg Harper, William Hessian and Abbeth Russell.   An opening artists’ reception is First Friday, September 6 from 5 to 8 pm.   This event is free and open to the public.   Gallery hours are Saturday and Sundays from 1 to 4 pm until September 29 th .     The exhibition themes are inspired by the main “epochs” in the development of human thinking on the nature of the cosmos, presented so beautifully by the late UMass-Amherst astrophysicist Edward Harrison in his book “Masks of the Universe” (2003/2015). The four artists will exhibit four artworks each with their own “riff” on each of the four themes of magic, myth, machine and matter – 16 artworks in all.  Oak Street Lofts is an Avesta property originally built to provide l...