Although the following call is for an exhibit Jan 2025, the deadline to submit work is June 15, 2024. Waterfall Arts, Belfast, January 17 - February 28, 2025 A collaborative exhibition honoring the beautiful dark, night skies of Maine.  With its focus on the night sky itself, (the stars, the moon, celestial phenomena, etc.), as well as depictions of all the wildlife that benefit from dark skies (such as pollinators, night frogs, birds, etc) and the artistic interpretation of “dark skies as a metaphor- -we envision a dynamic show of paintings, photographs and other artworks that celebrates and encourages the appreciation of the night sky. JURORS: Nancy Hathaway, (President/Co-founder of Dark Sky Maine); Liv Kristin Robinson (photographer); Emily Sabino (painter) & Arlene Jurewicz Leighton (photographer). SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15th, 2024 Submission Contents: (Please read carefully and follow instructions) • Provide us with the following info in an MS Word Doc: • Your name and con

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 Artist - Carlo Pittore.   (https://