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What's on Tap This Summer and Fall - 😷

We've been zooming and zooming trying to figure out when/how to open again.  There won't be any artist receptions this year, but we might be able to get the gallery open for some shows that had been switched around.  Please remember that this is a flexible approach which means if Covid rates go up here in Portland, this will most likely change.

But we are working toward the future, even though it's foggy.  And in that vein, the Members On-Line show (happening here on the blog) has a deadline swiftly approaching - June 10 - Friday!

UMVA Portland calls on UMVA members across the state to contribute work to our curated online exhibition “Sheltered In Place: UMVA Artists and the Pandemic.”

Extended Deadline: July 10, 2020 – Submit One Image Only

Label your single image (in the name line at the top of the image) in this format:

FirstName_LastName_Title (no spaces in title and include all the underscores as shown here).

 Sizing: A single jpg image approximately 2800 pixels on longer side and 72 dpi (no Tiff files, only jpgs).

 Brief bio: a brief artist statement in Word doc. format, not a pdf file. Label this Word doc.: Last Name_Title (with no spaces). At the top of the artist statement document include Artist's Name, Title of Work, medium, dimensions, date (optional), price. This statement is limited to 250 words.

Please wait until all your material is compiled to submit.

Important: Write 'Shelter' in the Subject Line of the Submission Email & Submit to:

umvaportland @gmail.com 

Submit no later than July 10


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"Missing Maine Landscapes" -  September
Gallery or on-Line

Open call for UMVA artists: Missing Maine Landscapes 

UMVA member artists working in all media are invited to submit work for a planned  September, 2020 exhibition of landscape and landscape-related art. The show is titled Missing Maine Landscapes. 

Your submission should be a response to places or things that have been removed, obscured, or replaced in the landscape that Maine artists inhabit, and may be concerned with place, history, narrative, grief, nostalgia, anger, joy, relief, with all of these concerns or none of them. It’s up to you. The only criterion will be that your work be landscape or landscape related. 

A formal call for submissions will be emailed to all current UMVA members and posted on the UMVA’s facebook page and on this blog in mid-July. We look forward to seeing your work!


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"Words ÙƒÙ„مات" by Dave Berrang &
Rabee Kiwan in October

This Two-Person show will feature paintings which include words in both English and Arabic. 



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We hope to have our second member show of the year in the gallery in November, but we don't know if it will be in the gallery or on-line.  The Holiday Show and Sale is still scheduled for December, but we might have to move that to some kind of art sales site.  Perhaps we need to start thinking about putting together an Etsy site.  It will be interesting to see how things evolve.

Please sign up for updates on the upper, right hand part of the page.   If you're not a member of UMVA, please consider joining.  It's very reasonable and if you're not an artist, you can join too and hang with the cool kids. 

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