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 tif 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 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

Ok...  so you know that we have this show opening tomorrow at the UMVA Gallery in the Portland Media Center.... August Weekends 2019.   Show Opening: Friday, 8/2, 5 – 8pm   @ Portland Media Center - Gallery - 516 Congress Street - Portland, ME “Do-gooder” celebrations: live portrait paintings of  good Mainers in gallery window With formidable, illustration skills, Julia Durgee paints the activity, buzz, and beauty of Maine. BUT, just right across the street, there's another First Friday opening of an exhibit of photography by Joanne Arnold, CE Morse and Dave Wade (UMVA member) at Trueline Gallery, (formerly the Salt Institute), 561 Congress St., Portland. Aug. 2nd, 5-7:30 PM.

UMVA members Roland Salazar Rose and John Ripton worked on this fine book project with a grant from the Maine Arts Commission.  Solar Flares & Salazar directs pubic attention to the existential threat now posed to our environment, and asks everyone to be responsible stewards on "Spaceship Earth." You can read the rest of the article by clicking HERE.  

There's a great show on now at the UMVA Gallery at the Portland Media Center.... But some UMVA members are also showing in other places...  Like Ann Tracy over at the Wellness Connection through the end of this month. and then... in August, Julia Durgee will be showing at our gallery at the Portland Media Center “From Illustrations to Paintcations,” featuring NYC-based comic drawings and Maine-based oil paintings. Show Details: ·        August Weekends 2019.   Show Opening: Friday, 8/2, 5 – 8pm ·        @ Portland Media Center - Gallery - 516 Congress Street - Portland, ME ·        “Do-gooder” celebrations: live portrait paintings of good Mainers in gallery window   Artist Bio: With formidable, illustration skills, Julia Durgee paints the activity, buzz, and beauty of Maine. She grew up drawing and painting cartoons, fashion designs, murals, and portraits in Albany, New York. This early work led to her apparel design degree from Cornell Uni

UMVA members were representing at the big conference hosted by Creative Portland last week.  Intrepid photographer and valued member Dave Wade was there shooting for Creative Portland and also for UMVA!  Here are the shots....thanks Dave Christine Sullivan Lesley MacVane, Tom Handel (both from Portland Media Center) with Mayor Ethan Strimmling John Ripton Lesley MacVane Titi deBaccarat and John Ripton Christine Sullivan and Ann Tracy

Although Dave Wade is the defacto photographer for UMVA, Ann Tracy took a few shots at the 1st Friday opening of the Members show.

The Union of Maine Visual Artists is pleased to present the “UMVA Members' Spring Exhibition” at the UMVA Gallery in the Portland Media Center, 516 Congress Street, Portland Maine, June 2-28, 2019. Thirty-four artists from across Maine will be represented in the exhibition. The work is new and engaging and ranges across several media.   The Opening and Artists' Reception is Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m . at the UMVA Gallery, 516 Congress Street. Free and open to the public. The UMVA Gallery is open during regular operating hours of the Portland Media Center ( http://portlandmedia.org/location-hours/ ) In addition, for the June show the Gallery is open 1-4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. On First Friday Art Walk, June 7, the Gallery hours are 1-8 p.m.   Artist Christine Higgins describes her “cathedral sunrise II” as a work of “pulp paper handmade fibers.” Its quiet colors, organic forms and hues and soft texture evoke the silence of a sunrise in the woods.   In An