Holidays and Beyond

While we hope that you will stop by the members show when UMVA docents are there on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through December from 1 to 4 pm at the Portland Media Center, 516 Congress St in Portland, we have a snapshot of the upcoming season at the Gallery:

UMVA 2022 Portland Gallery Exhibitions

January

Two Solo Shows:
Sandblast, Distressed Wooden Assemblage
Andre Benoit

and

It is Not So Simple
Milly Bachrach

February

Two Solo Shows:
Matrilineal
Becky Jane Rosen
and
Nest
Dani Robbins, Poorva Singh, Zachary Taibi

March

Reflections

Brooke Lambert

April

Unmonetized

Ruthanne Harrison

May

Experiments in Watercolor: Diversity and Luminosity

Greg Mason Burns, Rabee Kiwan, Liz Prescott, Arthur Nichols,

John Silverio, Alan Crichton, Ed Nedeau

June

UMVA Open Members Show

July

Being Human

Rabee Kiwan, Greg Burns, Arthur Nichols, Jen Joachin, John Ripton

August

Sea Changes

Joanne Tarlin

September

PRESSTO

Kris Onus, Jo Ann Bianchi, Monotype Guild of New England

October

Two Solo Shows:

A Wicked Tiny History of Playing & Tarot Cards
Amy Bellezza
and
Portland Works
Tom Bloom

November

UMVA Open Members Show

December

UMVA Holiday Sale

UMVA Gallery

516 Congress St

Portland Maine 04101

Get directions

Monday-Thursday 10am-5pm

(call ahead - (207) 775-2900 Ext: 200)

First Friday 5-8pm

Other Fridays 1-4pm

Saturday 1-4pm

Sunday 1-4pm

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Sheltered in Place - a Pandemic Art Show

The Covid pandemic reshapes our lives. It continues to strip down our existence, separating us from loved ones and exposing weaknesses in our system of governance and our political leadership. It demonstrates the devastating impact of the nation's grave social injustices. Systemic racism and socioeconomic disparity put oppressed peoples at greater risk for Covid-19. Then, on May 25, as many of us bunkered inside our homes, we witnessed the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd. This videotaped tragedy and the eruption of Black Lives Matter protests across the nation revealed the depth and breadth of racism in America. It is a contagion every bit as present and virulent as the coronavirus. In the face of both existential challenges – pandemic and racism – we can only recover through radical social change. The images and words of UMVA artists in this online exhibition surface from the isolation and compression of life in the pandemic. The works express personal and universa...

Help Artists Keep Gallery Space

UMaineFarmington is threatening to close down the UMF Art gallery. It's such a wonderful space and brings the work of artists from all over Maine to a community that otherwise wouldn't be exposed to this high level and diversity of work. Farmington is lucky to have a large gallery space in the community Emery Arts Center that focuses predominantly on showing art from the UMF student body and local artists, along with a special show (retrospective, national open call etc.) once in a while. Joe McDonnell (President of UMF) is saying that such a small university as UMF shouldn't have two galleries. The galleries serve very different purposes and bring together very different communities. The UMF gallery (because of its wider scope of work) encourages people from all over the state to travel to Farmington to see these wonderful exhibits by accomplished artists. Sarah does an amazing job curating thought provoking and varied exhibits. This decision about whether or...

Visions of the Year 2021

Since the pandemic is raging more here in Maine, we asked artists to create postcard-sized mail art and photograph them for this on-line show, But you will get an opportunity to see it physically in December of 2021 (cross your fingers). Not only that, but you can help raise funds for UMVA as with each piece of mail art being sold for $5 each. Y ou won't have an opportunity for this until December of 2021. We'll have more details once this year shakes out a bit more. But at this point in time, we envision a fundraising sale with these postcards happening in the gallery this coming December. Of course this all hinges on the pandemic and if it's safe to gather. That's why we're being rather vague with any details. It was decided to go with a mail art show since the January 2021 show couldn't go forward at the last moment and because one of the founders of the Union of Maine Visual Artists was also a renowned Mail Artis...

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