Maine Art Gallery celebrates its 65th Anniversary season

Ever since its founding in 1958, the non-profit Maine Artwork Gallery has pursued its mission to advance the visible arts by means of exhibitions and academic applications. The 2023 season contains an exceptionally nice schedule of displays and lessons that had been designed to meet the group’s imaginative and prescient of changing into a premier heart for showcasing Maine artwork.

The 2023 schedule contains six exhibits and twelve numerous artwork lessons from April by means of October. Every present may have a energetic opening occasion, and lots of will supply particular free lectures. Please go to www.maineartgallerywiscasset.org for full particulars.

The season opens with the “Wiscasset Scholar Present” April 15- 30. That is adopted by a really particular sixty fifth anniversary exhibit, “Generations,” that features artwork by among the gallery’s founding artists alongside a curated exhibit of up to date artwork, Could 4 – June 10.

In June, the annual plein air occasion, “Paint Wiscasset & Past” can be proven from June 15 – July 9. In July, Reveals Chair Mark Coates presents a curated members present, “Working Maine,” from July 13 – Aug. 13. The annual salon-style “Members Present” can be held Aug. 17 – Sept. 17, and the season concludes with an revolutionary exhibiting of native craftsmen, “The Clever Inside,” Sept. 21 – Oct. 22.

The Maine Artwork Gallery is grateful to its season sponsor, Sherri Dunbar of Tim Dunham Realty and to particular person exhibit sponsors, Large Barn Espresso, Barnes Home windows, Birch House Furnishings, Camden Nationwide Financial institution, Dow Furnishings, First Nationwide Financial institution, and J. Edward Knight Insurance coverage.

A nonprofit group, the Maine Artwork Gallery is devoted to the development and preservation of the visible, nice and utilized arts by means of exhibitions, lectures, demonstration and academic applications for kids and adults since 1958.  Extra info could be discovered at www.maineartgallerywiscasset.org and on Fb at Maine Artwork Gallery Wiscasset.

The gallery is situated at 15 Warren St., Wiscasset, with free on-street parking. From the north on Route 1, flip proper onto Federal Road (Rt. 218) then left onto Warren Road. From the south on Route 1, flip left onto Federal Road, then left onto Warren Road. From Foremost Road retailers, it is a simple 8-minute stroll.