UMVA is holding a Silent Auction and we would love you to submit one work of art.  The first 50 works will be accepted … first come first serve.   So do it today!   ·        When : Saturday August 3rd, 7-11 pm ·        Where : Merrymeeting Hall, 27 Main St., Bowdoinham ·        What : The Carlo Pittore Silent Art Auction & Costume Ball ·        Why : It’s a Win-Win! Sell your work with well-known Maine Artists while supporting the UMVA! You decide the minimum bid and choose an amount to donate to the UMVA (between 50% to 100% of the sale price). If you're not yet a member or haven't yet paid your 2024 dues, please do so here:  Join / Donate . Sliding scale $25-45. Proceeds will go towards building a much-needed new UMVA website, which will help us all stay connected and in-the-know about upcoming exhibitions, scre...

  Patsea Cobb - Moon Mother , acrylic on board. The Union of Maine Visual Artists presents “The Divine Feminine,” a group show at the UMVA Gallery, 516 Congress St., Portland Maine.   Artists are Patsea Cobb, Roberta March, Christine Morgan, Ellen O’Donnell, Judy O’Donnell, Gary Perlmutter, and Rhonda Pearle.   These seven artists interpret themes such as: paying tribute to Gaia, the Goddess of Earth, and mother of life and all its natural beauty; exploring female energy in balance with male energy; and, a reach for divine enlightenment, compassion and love through the ever present beauty in nature and as expressed through the grace of the female form.   An Artists’ Reception is scheduled for the First Friday art walk, September 1, from 4 to 8 pm.   This event is free and open to the public.   Gallery hours will be Fridays from 4 to 8 pm, Saturdays from 1 to 4pm, and most Sundays from 1 to 4pm.   The show continues to September 29 th . Patsea Cobb sa...

The Mid-Coast Salon, a monthly discussion group of about two dozen artists with diverse disciplines and styles present: Art Matters , an exhibit at the UMVA Gallery at 516 Congress Street, Portland, Maine for July 2021. For more than 30,000 years, humankind has used visual imagery to narrate, to translate, and give clear interpretation to the worlds within and around us, with artists often at the forefront of awareness. This exhibit represents what the artists of the Salon interpret to mean as Art Matters . The show will open with the Portland-area First Friday ArtWalk on July 2, 2021 from 5pm to 8pm. Salon members will sit at the gallery thereafter on Fridays and Saturdays from 1-4pm. Guests may also visit when the Portland Media Center is open. Click here for more info on our website . African Zebras by Russell Kahn

Empty Spaces: A New Normal The Union of Maine Visual Artists with the Portland Media Center and I are pleased to host the upcoming exhibition: “Empty Spaces: A New Normal”, with fifteen photographic artworks by myself, Natalie E. Brown, and a collaborative multimedia work section by selected members of the Portland Community. This includes the work of Jasper Gaffney, Josh Heriot, Sam Murphy, and Libby Scutt. This collection addresses the impact of the pandemic on both tourism and everyday life in the world; to illustrate the eerie silence all around us; but, also the beauty of that stillness and an overtake of nature in an otherwise turbulent time. The collection will go live at UMVA Gallery@PMC on March 1st and will be on display through the 27th, 2021. The collection can be visited in person with pre existing appointments and for the duration of the month online from the Portland Media Center , The Union of Maine Visual Artists , and my own website. Call ahead to book in person vi...

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...