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JAN. 6/2017
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
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RN Cohen, Amato’s, watercolor, 14"x18" painted 2008
Woven Canopy, Jane Herbert / Westbrook Fiberarts, 2016
Art All Around: Art Making
Communities
In the spring of 2016, Maine Center for Creativity
relaunched its signature and internationally
renowned Art All Around project as a statewide
program to engage Maine communities in largescale, collaborative art making in the streets. The
re-imagined Art All Around took off in Westbrook in a
months-long process that connected and empowered
diverse members of the community, celebrated
local identity, and helped spark economic activity,
culminating in the transformation of a downtown park
into a fantasy world comprised of thousands of locally
conceived and hand-crafted art pieces. On January
6th, Maine Center for Creativity, in collaboration with
Kingspoke and the Westbrook organizations and artmakers that made it possible, is bringing artifacts of
the 2016 installation to Portland for one month, and
will announce the 2017 Art All Around communities.
Learn about the Art All Around initiative, how to get
involved, and Maine Center for Creativity’s ongoing
vision to engage and empower Maine’s whole
communities in creating a culture of creativity and
innovation, and work together for more vital, vibrant
and visible cities and towns across the state.
KINGSPØKE
480 Congress Street, First Floor | kingspoke.co
Lead Sponsor:
Sponsor:
Congress Square Gallery
Maine Marimba Ensemble
and OLS
RN Cohen and Stan Lieberman
A First Friday Dance Party
Robert Cohen, Portland native, opened his first
gallery in 1988. After twenty years in Portland’s Old
Port, Cohen moved to the State Theater Building. An
emerging artist, Stan Lieberman, enjoys capturing
the places and scenery around him onto his canvas.
Both artists and their work can be found at the
Congress Square Gallery and in their studio in the
State Street Theater Building, Suite 303.
Leave your footprint on OLS’s dance floor before
the venue redoes their flooring this January. Join
Maine Marimba Ensemble as they bring their uplifting
sounds inside for this special indoor winter First Friday
performance and dance party in Portland’s most warm
and inviting music venue. Maine Marimba is a unique
percussion band based in Portland, Maine. They play
marimbas, huge wooden xylophone-like instruments.
These are hand-made by Jacob, and are created from
a variety of woods. The music we play is based on
traditional Zimbabwean music from the Shona culture.
It incorporates great rhythms, and inspires foottapping, hip-swaying and dancing. Tickets just $10 at
the door and the party kicks off at 7pm!
Congress Square Gallery | 609A Congress Street
congresssquaregallery.com
One Longfellow Square onelongfellowsquare.com
EAST END
13 | KINGSPØKE
480 Congress Street, First Floor
onelongfellowsquare.com
2 | FINN TEACH MINI-GALLERY
645 Congress Street
Maine landscape paintings.
finnteach.com
In 2016, our photographers covered
politics, from the heated presidential
campaigns to the emotional election
night gatherings. They traveled the
state, photographing lobstermen
in Stonington and residents of the
remote town of Allagash. They
spent time with people like Arianna,
a 5-year-old girl who was living in
the woods until her family found
an apartment. And they captured
everyday moments, from a game
of pickup basketball to a bird’s-eye
view of a crane operator high above
Portland. They made thousands of
frames and drove thousands of miles
to tell Maine’s stories.
portlandlibrary.com
Return to Great Mother’s Infinity
3 | COFFEE BY DESIGN
For his exhibition, Return to Great
Mother’s Infinity artist, writer, and
educator Jovencio de la Paz will
organize weavers in Maine and
Oregon to make a site specific textile
collection for SPACE Gallery.
space538.org
620 Congress Street
coffeebydesign.com
4 | DAUNIS FINE HANDMADE
JEWELRY
616 Congress Street
Biology & Art: 2 Dialects/Same
Language
Collagraph prints of Maine and Ireland
by Kathleen Walsh Buchanan.
daunis.com
609a Congress Street
Paintings and prints of Portland and
Coastal Maine. RN Cohen and Stan
Leiberman.
congresssquaregallery.com
6 | VESTIBULE 594
Anguish is a visceral portrait of
isolation, desire, and remorse.
15 Epps Street
1 North Street
‘Holiday Offerings’ an Annual Exhibit
of Visual Arts
Groundless
Juliet Karelsen at SPEEDWELL
Projects.
Original works by artists’ Pat Chandler,
Paul Noel and Austin Stilphen.
richardboydartgallery.com
Papercuts by Dylan Metrano
Drawn to the simplicity of form, the
boldness and relationships of colors,
and cleanness of composition, Dylan’s
artwork is entirely comprised of cut
and carefully layered paper.
stlawrencearts.org
Current pieces represent her first time
working on wood, and also her first
time working abstractly.
dobrateame.com/home/sandrabeck
16 | FORE RIVER GALLERY
87 Market Street
EAST BAYSIDE
Fired Up
Liz Marks.
forerivergallery.com
24 | COFFEE BY DESIGN
1 Diamond Street
coffeebydesign.com
17 | DOCKFORE
336 Fore Street
Something for everyone
This show contains a little bit of
everything, from Samantha Pratt.
Open for viewing.
meca.edu
WOODFORDS
CORNER
18 | CASCO BAY ARTISANS
68 Commercial Wharf
11 | UMVA GALLERY AT CTN
516 Congress Street
Union of Maine Visual Artists
The UMVA Gallery at CTN will feature
art from the UMVA Quarterly Journal
curated by Deborah Whitney.
Ctn5.org
Paxton captured many popular Maine
scenes with watercolor, acrylic, and
oils. His work also includes historical
scenes he referenced in books
from as early as the 1920s, painting
locomotives, aircraft, and war scenes.
mainelyart.com
28 | RICHARD BOYD ART
GALLERY
22 | SPEEDWELL PROJECTS
New Projections by Sandra Beck
BOB CREWE GALLERY
Bill Paxton: Planes, Trains, and Ships
PEAKS ISLAND
coffeebydesign.com
89 Exchange Street
An installation on memory, utilizing
laser-cut text in paper and fabric.
541 Congress Street
New Works By Nance Parker
15 | DOBRA TEA
Remembering the Intentionally
Forgotten
8 | MAINELY FRAMES & GALLERY
67 India Street
OLD PORT
CONGRESS STREET WINDOW
Paintings by Rhonda Pearle
and Gary Perlmutter.
bridgegallerymaine.com
21 | COFFEE BY DESIGN,
INDIA ST.
76 Congress Street
The Hired Wrights
Paintings on photographs by
Chris Eaton.
vestibule594.com
Color and Light
mayostreetarts.org
23 | ST. LAWRENCE ARTS
Anguish, The Grave Misgivings of
Remembrance
568 Congress Street
43 Washington Avenue
coffeebydesign.com
Id M Theft Able
ARTISTS AT WORK
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
7 | BRIDGE GALLERY
27 | COFFEE BY DESIGN
10 Mayo Street
522 Congress Street
594 Congress Street
This is Not A Political Show
by Chris Eaton
OUTER
WASHINGTON
20 | MAYO STREET ARTS
10 | MAINE COLLEGE OF ART
The Hired Wrights are a collective of
MECA alumni artists, designers and
craftspeople available for freelance
work. This is your go-to crew if you
need a logo, a video, an illustration,
a photograph, a mural or custom
furniture. See examples of their work
on display.
5 | CONGRESS SQUARE GALLERY
A multi-media art experience on
the full dome of the Southworth
Planetarium. It’s part of the ongoing
Prayers Made Visible* series by
internationally recognized artist
Bonnie Vierthaler, the Planetarium’s
new Artist-in-Residence.
usm.edu
Six pieces from the private collection
of Roberta Bass Jonathan Adler,
Brandh Dunham, Elizabeth Mears,
Lynn Rae, Karim Rashid, Unknown
Artist Menorahs created by Artists
with a Maine Connection Catherine
Bloom, Reid Brechner, Rush Brown,
Camille Davidson, Pat Herrington,
Lin Lisberger, Elizabeth Louden, Lisa
Pierce, Elizabeth Ruskin, Allie Walter.
mainejewishmuseum.org
Photos of the Year: Portland Press
Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Goods and Services is a short
term retail experiment bridging
the gap between consumerism
and experience. SPACE will be
collaborating with local performers,
artists, makers and writers to present
an interactive exhibition-meets-gift
shop.
Prayer for Protection
Let There Be Light - Menorah
Invitational Show
LEWIS GALLERY
Goods & Services
70 Falmouth Street
Margaret Nomentana makes nonobjective paintings and mixed media
collages. Marty Kremer has studied
blown and fused glass for many years.
5 Monument Square
538 Congress Street
1 | ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE
A First Friday Dance Party With
Maine Marimba Ensemble
26 | SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM
Two Life Views
14 | PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
9 | SPACE GALLERY
ARTS DISTRICT
267 Congress Street
Maine Center for Creativity will display
artifacts of the 2016 installation to
Portland for one month, and will
announce the 2017 Art All Around
communities. Art All Around project
is a statewide program to engage
Maine communities in large-scale,
collaborative art making in the streets.
kingspoke.co
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OUTER
CONGRESS
19 | MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM
Art All Around: Art Making
Communities
25 | ABILENE
539 Deering Avenue
Louise and Ellis Price, Mother Daughter
Exhibit
Paintings by Louise and Ellis Price.
abileneportland.com
12 | MAINE CHARITABLE
MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
519 Congress Street
First Friday Fiction
Portland magazine.
portlandmonthly.com
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