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May 2018
Sunday Salon | Resonance
Sunday, May half-dozen, iii-5pm CMCA Members free, others with admission Join us for a Sunday Salon featuring artist John Moore in conversation with Christopher Crosman, former Director, Farnsworth Fine art Museum and founding Principal Curator, Crystal Bridges Museum of Fine art. Stay afterwards for refreshments and further conversation. In his essay for the catalog accompanying the exhibition Resonance | John Moore, Crosman describes Moore's paintings as "adamantly apolitical, recording spaces that are at once remote and vaguely familiar, fragmented and whole, distanced…
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Confronting Boundaries | Ellen Goldsmith
Free
Saturday, May 12 | 2-4 pm CMCA Members free, others with admission; pre-registration recommended below | express to 12; for assist, delight contact Jean Thompson at jthompson@cmcanow.org OR 207 701 5005 Join poet Ellen Goldsmith for an afternoon workshop exploring the theme of boundaries, both explicit and implicit, inspired by the current exhibition, Boundaries, a collaboration between mural photographer Jacob Bond Hessler and Presidential Countdown Poet Richard Blanco. Ellen Goldsmith is the author of iii verse collections, Where to Wait, Such Distances, and No Pine Tree…
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Sunday Salon | Sole of the Creative person
Sun, May 20, 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join artist Nancy Kureth, former Director of The Twin Cities Creative Quango and Co-Founder of the Biddeford Art Walk, for an intimate, fun, colorful, and insightful presentation on her friend and fellow creative person, KJ Shows. Kureth is a frequent visitor to Shows' Kennebunk studio, where Kureth "talks to the dorsum of my head," says Shows, as she paints at her easel. From this running conversation, the artists discuss art, life,…
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June 2018
First Fri | June
Friday, June i | 5-8pm Free and open up to the public Stop by our courtyard for a SURPRISE effect and ArtLab OpenStudio for a gratuitous, hands-on project!
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Screen | B. R. A. C. E.
B. R. A. C. Due east., MASS MoCA documents an obstacle course/operation/installation created by creative person Patricia Brace while in a residency at MASS MoCA in 2018. The video features Caryatid, with artists Vered Snear, Danielle Andress, Chris Williford, Elisabeth Smolarz, and Hyo Jin Yoo, performing within an immersive, difficult-border, abstract, red, greenish, and blueish environment. Wearing corresponding red, dark-green, and blue B. R. A. C. E. costumes, in each human action, performers activate the space with collaborative and improvisational feminist sketches. Bifurcated…
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Katie Kehoe | Provisions for Buoyancy
Sunday, June 10 | 11:30am-1pm Community performance/action | CMCA Courtyard Free and open to the public Bring together interdisciplinary artist Katie Kehoe and Pb Educator Alexis Iammarino for a community performance/action in the CMCA courtyard. The result is part of Kehoe'southward current project, Provisions for Buoyancy, a serial of performances along the eastern seaboard that explore the projected touch of climate change and the adaptive reuse of materials. The public is invited to appoint in and observe the performance. The event at CMCA concludes Kehoe'south four-day residency…
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DAFNA MAIMON + ETHAN HAYES-CHUTE | Campsite SOLONG: FUN-RAISING
Saturday, June xvi | 2-7pm Operation | CMCA Courtyard Free and open to the public Bask an afternoon of lemonade and farewells with artists Dafna Maimon and Ethan Hayes-Chute in the CMCA courtyard during Rockland's Summer Solstice Commemoration. Larn about saying cheerio at Camp Solong, where we stay to leave. Campsite Solong presents a Fun-Raising event to inform and recruit campers and friends for the upcoming campsite session. Campsite Solong is an ongoing collaboration between artists Dafna Maimon (Porvoo, Finland) and…
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The Art Party
$225 – $500
Friday, June 29, six-9pm | After The Art Party, 9pm-midnight Tickets to the issue are available at two levels and can be combined: Art Party Ticket - $250 each/$225 CMCA members Artist Sponsor Ticket - $500 each/$450 CMCA members The purchase of an Artist Sponsor ticket allows CMCA to extend a costless ticket to an artist who may otherwise be unable to attend. Artist Sponsor ticket-buyers volition receive a unique John Bisbee mini sculpture (which can too be worn as…
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The Fine art Party 2018 | Silent Auction Preview
Fri, June 29 | six-8:30pm Live bidding at CMCA The Fine art Party; absentee bids accepted through 5pm, June 28. Contact how-do-you-do@cmcanow.org or call (207) 701-5005 to place absentee bid(s). FINE ART Lot #1 Alex Katz, Flowers 2, 2017 Archival pigment inks on Crane Museo Max paper Epitome and paper size: 22 ¾ 10 38 ½ in. Edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist Published by Lococo Art, exclusively for CMCA Last 1! Retail value: $4,500 framed; minimum bid…
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July 2018
Offset Fri | July
Friday, July half-dozen | 5-8pm Free and open up to the public Gloat summertime at CMCA with the public opening of our new exhibitions! Downtown Rockland comes alive during First Friday Fine art Walk. Come see what the buzz is about in the Art Capital of Maine. Stop by our courtyard for a special functioning by the artist collective B.R.A.C.E. and ArtLab OpenStudio for a costless, easily-on project!
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Artful Living Tour 2018
Tuesday, July 10 | 9am – 5:30pm Exclusive to CMCA Members | $175 each ($100 tax-deductible); includes lunch and transportation. Members may purchase up to 2 tickets each. Owl'southward Head & the St. George Peninsula | Where Art & Nature Meet Board the bus at CMCA in Rockland for our much-predictable, ever sold-out, daylong tour of aesthetic homes and gardens in Midcoast Maine. Nosotros brainstorm this year's tour in Owl's Head with a visit to a young family unit's chic, boldly…
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Tuesday Talk | Studio Flood
Tuesday, July 17 | 5:xxx-7:30pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join us for a Tuesday Talk with artist Tom Burckhardt as he discusses his electric current exhibition. Studio Flood is a life-size, walk-in installation executed entirely in cardboard and black paint, and centered on the epitome of an artist'due south studio that has experienced a catastrophic flood. Here the floor aeroplane, now an extended surface of h2o, appears above our heads. I's earth is turned upside down, both figuratively and literally. In the…
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2nd Annual Maine + Florida Reception
2nd Annual Maine + Florida Reception July 18 | 5-7pm; free Join CMCA in jubilant our 2nd Almanac Maine + Florida Reception. The evening will be filled with cocktails and conversation as we toast to our shared connections made possible by artists and art-lovers from these ii dandy states. If you lot are a CMCA member who resides in Maine and Florida, come raise a glass, make new connections, and see our new exhibitions. To RSVP or for more than data, please…
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VIP Reception + Tickets | 2018 Distinguished Lecture | Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch Three
$15 – $20
Tuesday, July 24 | Event begins 4:00pm $15 CMCA members; $20 non-members You are cordially invited to join u.s.a. for an afternoon reception hosted by Sylvia and Eddie Dark-brown, honoring CMCA'south 2018 Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Bunch will present his lecture, "The Challenge of Building a National Museum," at 5:30pm, at The Strand Theatre, adjacent to CMCA. Dr. Agglomeration will be introduced by artist, Dr. David…
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August 2018
Beginning Friday | Baronial
Friday, Baronial 3 | v-8pm Free and open up to the public Cease by our courtyard for a SURPRISE event and ArtLab OpenStudio for a gratis, hands-on project!
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Tuesday Talk | The Appearance of Things
Tuesday, Baronial 21 | 5:30-vii:30pm CMCA Members costless; others with admission Bring together united states of america for a Tuesday Talk with lensman Jocelyn Lee in chat with Edward Earle, former Curator of Collections at the International Center of Photography, NYC. Lee and Earle will discuss the historical underpinnings of Lee's piece of work on view in her current solo exhibition, The Appearance of Things, likewise as new directions in portraiture, landscape, and documentary photography. Writing in The New Yorker, Rebecca Bengal, describes Lee's work…
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September 2018
First Friday | September
Friday, September 7 | 5-8pm Gratuitous and open to the public Stop by our courtyard for Live MUSIC by Sam Kyzivat and ArtLab OpenStudio for a free, easily-on project!
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Saturday Speak | Studio Flood
Saturday, September 15 | 3-4pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join u.s.a. for a Saturday Speak with artist Tom Burckhardt equally he discusses the genesis of his current exhibition. Studio Flood is a life-size, walk-in installation executed entirely in paper-thin and black paint, and centered on the prototype of an artist's studio that has experienced a catastrophic overflowing. Called "ane of the almost interesting artists of his generation" by fine art critic John Yau, Burckhardt's work has been shown nationally and internationally,…
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Tuesday Talk | New Gallery Models in Maine
Tuesday, September 25 | 5:xxx-7:30pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join us for a Tuesday Talk on September 25, at 5:30pm, with gallerists Tobias Czudej of Waldo Exhibitions, Rockport, and Grant Wahlquist of Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, to discuss "New Gallery Models in Maine." Czudej and Wahlquist are breaking the mold of traditional galleries in the state by bringing cutting-edge national and international contemporary fine art to their recently opened exhibition venues in Rockport and Portland. Nether Tobias Czudej's direction, Waldo Exhibitions is conceived as a series of temporary exhibitions in…
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October 2018
First Friday | October
Friday, Oct 5 | five-8pm Free and open to the public Get the HOLE story! Stop by our courtyard during Oct's First Friday Art Walk as nosotros gloat the Maine origins of the donut hole. Gather around the fire pit to hear artist Alexis Iammarino read from her recently published catalogue, Pigsty History: Origins of the American-mode Donut. Books will be bachelor for sale and signing. To marker the occasion, Genevieve Johnson, ane of the original Hole History artists, will recreate her elegant and…
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Making Migration Visible | A Shared Space
Saturday, October thirteen, 1-4pm Free and open to the public A Shared Infinite | Lewiston by Daniel Quintanilla, Shuab Ahmed Mahat, and Hilowle Aden is a pop-up immersive 360° virtual reality feel inviting all of us to ask questions near the concrete and social spaces we inhabit and what we lose when nosotros are out of contact with one another. A Shared Infinite tells the story of friends Hilowle and Shuab, who grew upwardly in Dadaab, Kenya– the largest refugee camp in…
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John Bisbee | Gallery Talk & Book Signing
Sat, October 13, 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with access Bring together the states for a conversation and volume signing with artist John Bisbee as we celebrate the release of the exhibition itemize, American Steel. The 64-page, fully illustrated, hardcover, xi x xi inch, itemize includes a foreword by CMCA Managing director Suzette McAvoy and an essay by Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Heart for British Art and former Director of the Museum of Arts and Pattern, NYC. Catalog designed by Maeve O'Regan,…
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CANCELED – 2018 Halloween Bash | Dark Matter
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO Weather Weather. Saturday, October 27, 8pm-midnight $x CMCA Members | $20 Non-members Stride inside the galaxy! Immerse yourself in the invisible dark matter! Don't forget your dancing shoes and become ready for music, installations, and more. Music | DJ Blood-red Tide Cash Bar | Café Miranda Costume Competition | All-time Themed, Private, Pair, + Group (2+)
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November 2018
2018 CMCA Biennial
2018 CMCA Biennial Taking place in the fall of even-numbered years, the CMCA Biennial is an open, statewide juried exhibition featuring work in all mediums produced by the selected artists in the past two years. A snapshot of Maine'due south vibrant contemporary art scene, the CMCA Biennial dates back to 1978 and is the longest-running juried competition in the state. Jurors for 2018 are Kate Green, Guest Director of Marfa Gimmicky, Marfa, Texas, and Robin One thousand. Williams, Ford Curatorial Fellow…
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2018 CMCA Biennial
Click on any "bluish dot" for label copy and link to artist's website. — CMCA Biennial 2018 Taking place in the fall of even-numbered years, the CMCA Biennial is an open up, statewide juried exhibition featuring work in all mediums produced by the selected artists in the past two years. A snapshot of Maine'due south vibrant contemporary art scene, the CMCA Biennial dates back to 1978 and is the longest-running juried competition in the state. Jurors for 2018 are Kate…
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CMCA Biennial 2018 | Opening Reception
Saturday, Nov 3, 2018 | 5:00-vii:00pm Gratuitous Join us for the opening reception of the CMCA Biennial 2018. Taking place in the fall of even-numbered years, the CMCA Biennial is an open, statewide juried exhibition featuring work in all mediums produced past the selected artists in the past two years. A snapshot of Maine'southward vibrant gimmicky art scene, the CMCA Biennial dates back to 1978 and is the longest-running juried competition in the state. Jurors for 2018 are Kate Light-green,…
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Tuesday Talk | Elaine Thou. Ng
Tuesday, November xiii | 5:xxx-vi:30pm Free and open to the public Join the states for a Tuesday Talk with Biennial artist Elaine Grand. Ng, who will speak about her recent work and share information almost her experience this past year every bit a 2017-18 Fulbright Research Swain at the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. During her Fulbright Fellowship, Ng worked primarily in ceramics and fiber exploring the visual language of cultural hybridization in Taiwan and tying information technology to ideas about…
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Dec 2018
Who Practice Yous Beloved? – I
Lord's day, December 2 | 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission I of our most popular serial! Join us as Biennial Artists share their art crushes—each artist presents three works of art by other artists that they dear, and tells why. In this way, the audience is introduced to a wide range of art and gains insight into how artists look at art, how they take inspiration from the piece of work of other artists, and how deep looking informs their own…
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Who Practise You Love? – 2
Sun, December 16 | 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission I of our about popular series! Join u.s.a. as Biennial Artists share their art crushes—each artist presents three works of art by other artists that they dearest, and tells why. In this way, the audience is introduced to a wide range of art and gains insight into how artists look at art, how they take inspiration from the work of other artists, and how deep looking informs their ain…
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January 2019
Who Do Y'all Love? – III
Sunday, January 6 | 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission One of our most popular serial! Bring together u.s.a. as Biennial Artists share their art crushes—each artist presents three works of art by other artists that they dearest, and tells why. In this way, the audience is introduced to a wide range of art and gains insight into how artists wait at fine art, how they have inspiration from the work of other artists, and how deep looking informs their own…
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Performance | Eleanor Kipping | Strange Fruit
The performance has been canceled due to building maintenance. Sunday, Jan 27 | 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join artist Eleanor Kipping for a functioning in conjunction with her installation, Foreign Fruit on view in the Biennial. Referencing popular culture iconography and American history, Kipping'south work addresses the Black female experience, taking interruption to reverberate on sexuality, physicality, and the cognition of The Other. Kipping encourages customs engagement, asking the viewer to examine intra/interracial terrains in their own…
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March 2019
Screen | Andrew Ellis Johnson + Susanne Slavick | RESORT + QUENCH
RESORT and QUENCH are two recent collaborative video works by artists Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick that frame the global refugee and migration crisis through the lens of the sea. In RESORT, 2016, the immensity of the sea is oddly stilled. There is no lull in the lite that cycles from dawn to dusk beyond a sandy stage. The bodies that lounge on embankment chairs are absent, unavailable or unwilling to assistance those bodies that are anxious, vulnerable and…
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Melt Downwardly + EBF Exhibition | Opening Reception
Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 5:00-seven:00pm Free Join us for an opening reception jubilant two new exhibitions: Cook Downwards and Wade Kavanaugh + Stephen B. Nguyen | Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship Exhibition. Melt Downwards, organized by CMCA curator emeritus Bruce Brown, presents the work of 10 lens-based artists whose work gives show to the undeniable touch of climate change on the fragile environments of the Chill and Antarctic. Through their experiences recording and responding to the visible and visceral markers of irrefutable change, the artists bring…
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Apr 2019
Dominicus Salon | Melt Down | Capturing Ice
Sunday, April 14 | 3-5pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join us for a Sunday Salon panel word with Melt Down artists John Eide, Ella Hudson, Jan Piribeck, and DM Witman, moderated by exhibition curator Bruce Dark-brown.
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May 2019
Kickoff Friday | May | Performance by Princess
Friday, May 3 | five-8pm Free and open to the public Join us for May's First Friday Art Walk featuring art-pop psychedelic duo Princess (Alexis Gideon and Michael O'Neill) performing the Midcoast premiere of their alive narrative video album, Out There. Come up and enjoy the burn down pit in the courtyard and free admission to our galleries. Performance will begin at 7pm. Out At that place is a psychedelic, audio-visual operation that explores the power of the Divine Feminine through a Science-Fiction narrative alongside collaborations with JD Samson, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and…
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Sunday Salon | Cook Downward | One World
Sunday, May 5 | 3-5pm CMCA Members gratis; others with admission Bring together us for a Sunday Salon conversation with Melt Downwards artist John Paul Caponigro and Peter Neill, founding director, World Bounding main Observatory.
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Sunday Salon | Cook Down | Chill Residencies
Sunday, May 19 | three-5pm CMCA Members costless; others with admission Join united states of america for a Sunday Salon console discussion with Melt Down artists Jonathan Laurence, Justin Levesque, Jim Nickelson, and Shoshannah White as they share opportunities and experiences of Arctic Residencies.
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June 2019
Tuesday Talk | Melt Down | Arctic Observations
Tuesday, June 4 | five:xxx-vii:30pm CMCA Members free; others with access Bring together us for a Tuesday Talk with Melt Down photographer Peter Ralston every bit he shares images, observations, and tales of Greenland and the Northwest Passage.
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First Friday | June
Friday, June 7 | 5-8pm Gratis and open up to the public Take hold of a last look at our spring exhibitions before they close! Enjoy free admission to our galleries, refreshments, and a burn down pit in our courtyard for Rockland'due south First Friday Art Walk. Free admission to CMCA during Showtime Fridays in 2019 is made possible thanks to the support of Wells Fargo.
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The Art Political party
$225 – $500
The Art Party 2019 | Friday evening, June 28 Join usa for a festive evening celebrating our summertime exhibitions | Click here to purchase tickets Ann Craven | Birds We Know Dan Mills | Human Topographies Tectonic Industries | Dreams Can Come up Truthful 6:00-9:00 PM Cocktails, oyster bar, moveable feast, silent auction Trillium Caters | Otter Cove Oysters 9:00- Midnight After political party, DJ, dancing, beer + vino included DJ Owen Cartwright | Yellow Barn | 20 Winter Street Reservations required…
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Subsequently The Art Party
$20
Friday, June 28 | 9pm-midnight | Yellow Barn, 20 Winter Street $20 pre-auction + CMCA Members; $25 at door Beer and vino included; ages 21+ PURCHASE TICKETS NOW FOR THE Political party OF THE Flavour! Subsequently The Art Party, continue the celebration and dance into the dark with DJ Owen Cartwright. Become a fellow member or purchase tickets online before the event to save!
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Screen | Andrew Elijah Edwards | Monochromatic
Monochromatic presents ii new 3D animations by artist Andrew Elijah Edwards. Based on a deep fascination with vision and looking, Edwards utilizes the transmutation of calorie-free through digital media in his animations. He creates piece of work that explores the moving image as a medium for experimentation within a perceptual landscape of direct experience that lives on the outskirts of linguistic expression and a metaphysical power channeled through the imagination. His processes develop in fascination with the horizons of consciousness and new…
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July 2019
First Friday | July | Summer Exhibitions Opening
Fri, July five | 5-8pm Gratis and open up to the public Gloat summer at CMCA with the public opening of our new exhibitions! Downtown Rockland comes alive during Beginning Friday Art Walk. Come up meet what the fizz is most in the Fine art Majuscule of Maine. Sponsored past Wells Fargo
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Artful Living Tour 2019
Tuesday, July 9, ix:00 am - 5:30 pm | Event SOLD OUT! $175 per person; open only to Adept Host members and higher up, express to ii tickets per person. Transportation, luncheon, and afternoon refreshments included. Save the date for CMCA's almanac, much-anticipated, always sold-out, daylong bout of exceptional homes and collections in the Midcoast. Itinerary The daylong tour begins on the top of Contrivance Mount at the home and studios of artists Lauren Henkin and Richard Benari, publishers of Vela…
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3rd Annual Maine + Florida Reception
3rd Almanac Maine + Florida Reception July 17 | five-7pm; gratis CMCA invites you to our 3rd Almanac Maine + Florida Reception. The evening features a gallery talk with artist Ann Craven on her current exhibition, Birds Nosotros Know. Ann splits her time betwixt Maine and New York City, and is represented in Florida at one of Miami's hottest galleries, Nina Johnson. Join united states for cocktails and conversation every bit we toast to our shared connections with artists and fine art lovers from these…
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Art New England | Destination: Coastal Maine
Art New England | Destination: Coastal Maine Reception July 18 | 6-8pm; gratuitous Please join Art New England as nosotros celebrate summer and the publication of ANE'southward July/Baronial 2019 issue, featuring "Destination: Coastal Maine." Meet ANE staff and fellow members of the New England fine art community. Enjoy wine, hors d'ouevres and conversation! We hope to come across you there! Cheque out Art New England's upshot on Facebook.
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Tuesday Talk | Dan Mills | What'south in a Name?
Tuesday, July 30 | v:30-half-dozen:30pm CMCA Members complimentary; others with access Join united states for a Tuesday Talk with exhibiting artist Dan Mills as he shares his procedure and finished work shown in Human Topographies.
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August 2019
First Friday | August
Friday, Baronial 2 | 5-8pm Complimentary and open to the public Beat out the heat with a visit to our galleries, hands-on activities in ArtLab, and BINGO in the courtyard. Fun and costless for the whole family! Gratuitous admission to CMCA during First Fridays in 2019 is fabricated possible thanks to the support of Wells Fargo.
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Tuesday Talk | Ann Craven + Chris Crosman
Tuesday, August 27 | v:30-6:30pm CMCA Members gratis; others with access Join u.s. for a Tuesday Talk with exhibiting artist Ann Craven in conversation with Chris Crosman most her exhibition, "Birds We Know".
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September 2019
First Friday | September
Friday, September 6 | five-8pm Free and open to the public Enjoy gratis admission to our galleries, refreshments, and a fire pit in our courtyard for Rockland's First Friday Fine art Walk. Free admission to CMCA during First Fridays in 2019 is made possible thank you to the back up of Wells Fargo.
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*SOLD OUT* | David Driskell | A Life in Art, Gardening + Material Culture
Dominicus, September 8 | 4 pm EVENT SOLD OUT CMCA and Indigo Arts Alliance are proud to present David Driskell: A Life in Art, Gardening and Material Culture. Highly regarded as an artist, scholar and curator, David Driskell is 1 of the globe's leading regime on African American Art. He has been the recipient of 13 honorary doctorates and has contributed significantly to scholarship in the history of fine art on the role of Black artists in America. His paintings and collages reverberate his personal…
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Birds + Our Imagination | A Writing Workshop
Saturday, September fourteen | 1-3 pm Writing workshop with Ellen Goldsmith $30 to nourish, cash or check day-of Birds capture our interest, attention and imagination. What practise we meet in them and where do they have united states? We'll address this question from the perspectives of poetry and art. We'll begin by exploring poems past achieved poets that feature birds. Next we'll spend time with Ann Chicken's Birds Nosotros Know. Prompts or springboards will suggest directions for writing a poem or a paragraph.…
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Lord's day Salon | Tectonic Industries
Sunday, September 22 | 3-5 pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Join us for a Sunday Salon with exhibiting artists Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow of Tectonic Industries on their installation DREAMS CAN Come up Truthful (if it's not working for you, you're non doing it right).
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Alan Magee: fine art is not a solace | Public Reception
Friday, September 27 | half-dozen:45pm Free and open to the public Join artist Alan Magee and filmmakers P. David Berez and David Wright for a reception and further chat at CMCA post-obit The Strand Theater'due south public showing at five:30pm of the documentary, Alan Magee: fine art is not a solace. Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, Bury The Bondage, and To End All Wars, has said this about the documentary: "This is a remarkable film about a remarkable artist. It's a long time since I've seen anything that so…
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October 2019
Kindling Fund Grant Workshop
Wednesday, October 2 | 6-7 pm Free and open to the public Please join usa for a Kindling Fund grant workshop presented by SPACE. The workshop will run for about an hour including a cursory overview of the program and will coach audiences on how to create a competitive awarding and time for questions at the finish. This workshop is gratis and open to the public. The Kindling Fund supports creative person-organized projects that engage audiences and incorporate the visual arts…
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First Friday | October
Fri, October 4 | 5-8pm Free and open to the public The final First Friday of the year! Enjoy free admission to our galleries, refreshments, and a fire pit in our courtyard for Rockland'due south First Friday Art Walk. Free admission to CMCA during Offset Fridays in 2019 is fabricated possible thanks to the back up of Wells Fargo.
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November 2019
Temporality | The Procedure of Time
Fourth dimension is a material, too. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and process, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using fourth dimension as a means of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is time, and how do nosotros measure and requite value to fourth dimension? Ane certainty is that artists demand time to make their piece of work and viewers need time to wait. In a society that's constantly on the movement, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | The Process of Time | Master Gallery
Time is a fabric, too. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and process, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time as a means of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is fourth dimension, and how do we measure out and requite value to time? One certainty is that artists need fourth dimension to make their work and viewers demand time to look. In a society that's constantly on the motion, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | The Process of Fourth dimension | Bruce Brownish Gallery
Time is a cloth, besides. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, elapsing, and procedure, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time every bit a ways of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is time, and how do we measure and requite value to time? One certainty is that artists demand time to brand their piece of work and viewers demand time to look. In a order that'due south constantly on the move, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | The Process of Time | Guy D. Hughes Gallery
Time is a material, too. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and process, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time as a means of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is time, and how exercise we measure and give value to time? One certainty is that artists demand time to make their work and viewers demand time to wait. In a society that's constantly on the movement, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | The Process of Fourth dimension | Karen + Rob Caryatid Hall
Time is a material, besides. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and process, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time equally a ways of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is time, and how do nosotros mensurate and requite value to time? One certainty is that artists need time to make their work and viewers need time to expect. In a gild that's constantly on the movement, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | The Process of Fourth dimension | Marilyn Moss Rockefeller Antechamber
Time is a textile, too. – Joan Jonas Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and procedure, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time as a means of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is fourth dimension, and how practise we mensurate and requite value to time? One certainty is that artists need time to make their work and viewers need time to look. In a lodge that's constantly on the move, the artists included in the exhibition are…
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Temporality | Opening Reception
Saturday, November 2 | 5-7pm Free and open to the public Join CMCA for the opening reception of our autumn exhibition; Temporality | The Process of Time. Exploring ideas of repetition, duration, and process, Temporality looks at how contemporary artists are using time as a means of making. The exhibition explores the question of what is time, and how do we measure and give value to time? I certainty is that artists demand fourth dimension to make their work and viewers need time…
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Dominicus Salon | Temporality
Dominicus, Nov 24 | iii-five pm CMCA Members free; others with admission Bring together us for a Sunday Salon with artists Astrid Bowlby, Amy Stacey Curtis, Carly Glovinski, and Deborah Wing-Sproul included in the exhibition Temporality | The Process of Time and hear how they apply time equally material in their piece of work.
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Jan 2020
Sunday Salon | Temporality
Sunday, January 5 | 3-v pm CMCA Members gratis; others with admission Bring together u.s.a. for a Sun Salon with artists Caleb Charland, Clint Fulkerson, and Kate Russo included in the exhibition Temporality | The Process of Time and hear how they utilise time every bit cloth in their work.
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MidCoast Women's Collective Voices: Fine art Lifts All
Tuesday, Jan fourteen | 6:xxx-vii:45pm Free; open to all Panel: Susan Danly, Suzette McAvoy, Donna McNeil; moderator Vas Prabhu Art has the ability to lift individuals, institutions and communities. Join three women leaders in the Maine arts community, Susan Danly, former Senior Curator at the Portland Museum of Art, CMCA Director Suzette McAvoy, and Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Director Donna McNeil, for an inspiring discussion on how their careers in the arts has led to mentorship and community building. Moderator is Vas…
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Sunday Salon | Temporality
Sun, January 26 | 3-5 pm CMCA Members costless; others with admission Join united states of america for a Sunday Salon with artists Nathan Kroms Davis, Grace DeGennaro, Danica Phelps, and Julie Poitras Santos included in the exhibition Temporality | The Process of Time and hear how they apply fourth dimension as material in their work.
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Feb 2020
Artist Toolbox Talk
Sunday, February ii| three-5 pm CMCA Members gratuitous; others with admission | No pre-registration necessary Presented by Kim Bernard, The Artist Toolbox Talk introduces artists to the well-nigh critical skills they need to represent themselves and advance professionally in the changing dynamics of today's arts and civilization sectors. Creating a strong body of piece of work is the most important part of being an artist, only and then what? This presentation covers hi-priority topics such as photographing your work, websites, gallery representation, pricing,…
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Temporality | Ariel Hall Operation + Closing Reception
Dominicus, Feb 23 | 12-3pm Free and open up to the public Join CMCA for a performance by artist Ariel Hall and a endmost reception celebrating our winter exhibition; Temporality | The Process of Time. 6pm and Anon Performance past Ariel Hall Created and performed by creative person Ariel Hall, the performance centers on the precarious authorship of the trajectory of our lives, and the tension betwixt a mother'due south domestic and public aspirations, in particular. The cruel optimism that defines our American pursuit of…
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March 2020
Screen | Erin Dorney | Question the Body
QUESTION THE Body is a collection of photographs and time-lapse videos where gathered natural objects obscure pages from "The Question and Answer Book About The Homo Trunk" by Ann McGovern (Random House, 1965). Through recorded erasure/redaction, each poem is built by the disembodied easily of the artist. The unobscured text reveals inquiries into physical form, preference, expression, and function. Past emphasizing process over product, QUESTION THE BODY blurs the boundaries between writing, visual art, appropriation, performance, and assemblage. Works in…
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Skirting the Line | Painting Betwixt Abstraction and Representation
Skirting the Line presents the work of five contemporary painters whose work hovers on the line between brainchild and representation. Employing different techniques to create new forms of mural, still life and the effigy, each artist has a unique merely cohesive visual language exploring the idea of what it means to portray a subject by looking at the interplay between abstraction and representation. Each reinvigorates painting today through energetic personal expression. Artists included in the exhibition are Meghan Brady, Inka…
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Erin Johnson | UNNAMED FOR DECADES
Spanning ii galleries, Unnamed for Decades - an exhibition by Erin Johnson (b. 1985) - presents a serial of new site-specific installations that incorporate videos, sculptures, and photographs. These works explore the artist'southward ongoing interest in the complexity of collectivity, the wide-ranging consequences of scientific enquiry, as well equally dissidence, want, and the queer body. The title of the exhibition is drawn from a text near Solanum plastisexum - an Australian bush-league love apple whose sexual expression has confounded scientists and…
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*POSTPONED* Spring Exhibitions | Opening Reception
Love CMCA community, Out of an abundance of caution in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States and the New England region, we have decided to postpone the opening reception for our Spring Exhibitions scheduled for five-7pm on Sat, March 21. Equally more information is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nosotros will alert you to the new date for the event and whatever other postponements and cancellations that may…
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October 2020
2020 Biennial
CMCA BIENNIAL 2020 The 2020 edition of the CMCA Biennial features the piece of work of 34 artists from 17 Maine communities. The selected artists were chosen from a puddle of more than 500 individual submissions by jurors Nina Johnson-Milewski, owner, founder, and manager of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL, and Kate McNamara, an independent curator and educator based in Providence, RI. In a statement by the jurors, Johnson-Milewski writes, "I hope this exhibition will reflect the importance of harnessing the creative spirit, specially in…
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2020 Biennial | Marilyn Moss Rockefeller Antechamber + Karen and Rob Brace Hall
CMCA BIENNIAL 2020 The 2020 edition of the CMCA Biennial features the work of 34 artists from 17 Maine communities. The selected artists were chosen from a pool of more than 500 individual submissions by jurors Nina Johnson-Milewski, owner, founder, and director of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL, and Kate McNamara, an independent curator and educator based in Providence, RI. In a statement by the jurors, Johnson-Milewski writes, "I hope this exhibition will reverberate the importance of harnessing the artistic spirit, peculiarly in times…
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2020 Biennial | Main Gallery
CMCA BIENNIAL 2020 The 2020 edition of the CMCA Biennial features the work of 34 artists from 17 Maine communities. The selected artists were chosen from a pool of more than than 500 individual submissions by jurors Nina Johnson-Milewski, owner, founder, and managing director of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL, and Kate McNamara, an independent curator and educator based in Providence, RI. In a statement by the jurors, Johnson-Milewski writes, "I promise this exhibition will reverberate the importance of harnessing the creative spirit, particularly in times…
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2020 Biennial | Bruce Brown Gallery
CMCA BIENNIAL 2020 The 2020 edition of the CMCA Biennial features the work of 34 artists from 17 Maine communities. The selected artists were called from a pool of more than than 500 individual submissions past jurors Nina Johnson-Milewski, possessor, founder, and managing director of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL, and Kate McNamara, an independent curator and educator based in Providence, RI. In a statement by the jurors, Johnson-Milewski writes, "I promise this exhibition volition reverberate the importance of harnessing the creative spirit, particularly in times…
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2020 Biennial | Guy D. Hughes Gallery
CMCA BIENNIAL 2020 The 2020 edition of the CMCA Biennial features the work of 34 artists from 17 Maine communities. The selected artists were called from a pool of more than 500 individual submissions by jurors Nina Johnson-Milewski, owner, founder, and director of Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL, and Kate McNamara, an independent curator and educator based in Providence, RI. In a argument by the jurors, Johnson-Milewski writes, "I hope this exhibition will reflect the importance of harnessing the creative spirit, particularly in times…
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Activating Hybrid Learning with Gimmicky Fine art: MAEA Workshop
$50
Activating Hybrid Learning with Contemporary Art: MAEA Workshop Saturday, October 17 | 9:30am – three:30pm In person at CMCA | twenty spots available $50 to nourish | pre-registration required Due to limited space, all sales are terminal. Contact mbogyo@cmcanow.org to register, a few spots left! In support of the Maine Arts Education Association (MAEA), CMCA is offering a full mean solar day professional workshop for Maine Art Educators, including gimmicky art exploration, making, and conversation featuring the CMCA 2020 Biennial. CMCA curatorial…
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May 2021
David Row | The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things is the first major exhibition of painter and principal printmaker David Row'south work in his home state. Born in Portland, in 1949, Row is a multi-generational Mainer. His father'southward family unit settled in Perry, a small town in Washington County near the Canadian border, in the early on 19th century. Row visited the family homestead many times as a child and thought of it "as the wildest identify I'd ever seen." In his teen years, Row's family began…
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Volition o' the Wisp
The Will o' the Wisp is a mischievous sprite that leads weary travelers deeper and deeper into a treacherous swamp with its lantern-similar, shimmering countenance. For the exhibition Will o the' Wisp, eight artists jump together by a common interest in speculative futures and ecology bring forth a commonage vision of a dreamworld populated by spirits that entice and confound perception. Will o' the Wisp weaves personal narratives into the setting of a bog roiling with mysterious gases. This psychedelic miasma combines lightworks,…
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SCREEN | Cherrie Yu
Cherrie Yu is a 25 twelvemonth old artist born in Xi'an, Mainland china. She currently lives and works from Chicago, IL. She holds a available caste in English Literature at the College of William and Mary, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown work at Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Gimmicky Photography, Links Hall and Mana Contemporary Chicago. She has been an artist in residence at ACRE, Gimmicky Calgary Museum, and a visiting…
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July 2021
First Friday | July
Friday, July 1 | 10am-6pm Free and open to all First Friday Art Walk is back for 2021! Celebrate summer and savour complimentary admission to our galleries all mean solar day long.
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Artful Studio Tour 2021
SOLD OUT! Tuesday, July xiii, 9am – 5:30pm $225 per person; limited to ii tickets per person Transportation, luncheon and afternoon refreshments included. Register today for CMCA's much-anticipated daylong tour of leading artist'south studios in Brunswick. Itinerary The tour takes identify at the Fort Andross Building in downtown Brunswick. You will visit the studios of 4 acclaimed Maine artists who will introduce you to their latest works. Featured artists include Katherine Bradford, Tom Flanagan, Emilie Stark-Menneg and John Bisbee. In…
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Baronial 2021
Commencement Friday | August
Fri, August half dozen | 5pm-8pm Free and open up to all | Mask Required Come up join us for the August First Friday Fine art Walk! Celebrate summertime and enjoy gratuitous admission to CMCA'southward galleries from 5pm to 8pm. Masks will be required for all visitors for this event regardless of vaccination condition.
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September 2021
Starting time Friday | September
Friday, September 3 | 5pm-8pm Gratuitous and open to all | Mask Required Come bring together us for the September Kickoff Friday Art Walk! Gloat finish of summer and enjoy gratis admission to CMCA'south galleries from 5pm to 8pm. Alive music in our courtyard v:xxx – vii:30 featuring local musicians Dukes of Grass Masks will be required for all visitors for this event regardless of vaccination status.
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CIFF | Films by Simon Liu @ CMCA
Thursday, September sixteen – 19 Free and open up to the public Visitors are required to clothing masks regardless of vaccination status. All other galleries will be closed during this time for installation. The Center for Maine Contemporary Fine art is pleased to interact with the Camden International Motion picture Festival to present three curt films past the acclaimed filmmaker Simon Liu as part of the 2021 Camden International Motion-picture show Festival. Bring together us during our open up hours, to view Liu'southward films, which volition exist presented on continuous…
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October 2021
Hiraki Sawa | Absent-minded
This solo exhibition presents the internationally acclaimed video artist Hiraki Sawa's nearly contempo single-channel video, Absent (2018). Absent (running time iv:27 minutes) presents an intimate, imaginative space populated by a fantastic parade of surreal creatures—a walking tea kettle, a dancing cup, a flight spoon—all of them traveling between m and intimate landscapes. Hiraki Sawa (born 1977, Ishikawa, Nippon) received a BFA from the University of Eastward London and an MFA from the Slade School of Art at University College, London. His work…
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First Friday | Oct
Friday, Oct 1 | 4pm-7pm Free and open to all | Mask Required Come join us for the October Starting time Fri Art Walk! Nourish a public preview of our fall exhibitions with costless admission from 4:00 - 7:00pm. Relish alive music in CMCA'due south courtyard by the Rockland-based band the Cattails from 5pm - 7pm. Masks volition exist required for all visitors for this event regardless of vaccination condition.
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Fall Exhibitions Opening
Saturday, October two | 4:00 - 6:00pm Gratuitous to the public; mask required Join us in-person on Saturday, Oct 2nd for an opening reception from 4:00 - 6:00pm for our 2021 Fall Exhibitions. Visit with the featured artists and savour the first looks of the exhibits. Lessons , a mural painted by Ryan Adams, will be produced in his signature 'precious stone' way that deconstructs words and phrases into geometric patterns that dynamic display visual depth, shadows and highlights. The landscape…
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December 2021
Gallery Talk | Ryan Adams
Saturday, Dec 4 | 12:00-one:00p Live and in-person at CMCA + streamed to Zoom Admission to this result is costless Bring together us on Sat, December iv at 12:00pm for a complimentary gallery talk with exhibiting artist Ryan Adams.Adams will discuss the history of his lettering and painting practice and his works on view at CMCA with Executive Managing director and Chief Curator Tim Peterson. This programming is fabricated possible in role with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual…
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Intro to Mold Making and Casting | Adult Workshop
Introduction to Mold Making and Casting Sunday 12/5, 12/12 + 12/19 ix:00am–12:00pm | CMCA ArtLab $200 CMCA Fellow member | $240 Non Member Maximum of 8 participants Join us for an introduction to mold making and casting with Community Artist Alexis Iammarino. This three function workshop is designed for adults who want to develop skills to create 3D sculptural forms. The workshop draws inspiration from our principal gallery exhibit, Spatial Relations, featuring works made from bandage physical, ceramic, wood and mixed media. Using a combination…
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CMCA Holiday Popular-Upward
Saturday, December 11 | 10:00-5:00pm Admission to this event is complimentary CMCA volition open its doors for a total mean solar day of holiday festivities CMCA's Holiday Pop-Upward is a commemoration of art and community during the winter season. Guests of all ages are invited to drop in and explore art in all 4 galleries and to get creative in our ArtLab, where materials volition be provided to make festive, hand-made holiday cards and wrapping paper. For one twenty-four hour period simply, CMCA'due south stylish store will also offer…
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Contemporary Art in Context: MAEA Workshop
$50
Gimmicky Fine art in Context: MAEA Workshop Sat, December 18| 9:30am – 3:30pm In person at CMCA | 30 spots maximum $l Registration Fee; all sales terminal In support of the Maine Arts Teaching Clan (MAEA), CMCA is offering a total twenty-four hours professional person workshop for Maine Educators, including contemporary fine art exploration, making, and conversation featuring the 2021 Fall Exhibits. CMCA education staff will guide participants through a variety of activities and ideas for incorporating contemporary art into your classrooms, both in-person…
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January 2022
Intro to Mold Making and Casting | Adult Workshop
$100 – $150
Intro Mold Making and Casting Session 2 Sunday 1/9 + 1/16 9:00am–12:00pm | CMCA ArtLab $125 CMCA Member | $150 Non Member Maximum of 6 participants Community Creative person Educator Alexis Iammarino volition lead a second session of Intro to Mold Making + Casting for adults in Jan. This ii-twenty-four hours workshop is designed for adults who want to explore skills to create 3D sculptural forms. The workshop draws inspiration from our Main Gallery exhibit, Spatial Relations, featuring works made from bandage…
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March 2022
ArtLab Livestream | Strand Theatre 10 CMCA
Saturday, March 5 | 12:30–1:30pm Registration Required | Strand Theatre Facebook livestream In collaboration with Strand Theatre nosotros are pleased to offer a livestream ArtLab inspired past the performance by Elena Moon Park and Friends in-person and online at xi:00am on March v. Following the performance, tune in for a livestream ArtLab available on our Facebook. Registration for this in-person and livestream show is required. You can receive your Pay-What-Y'all-Tin can ($0-20) ticket through the Strand Theatre. Those attending the concert…
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ArtLab for All Ages | March
Saturday, March v | 2:00–4:00pm In-person | CMCA ArtLab Join us in-person with invitee artist Alanna Hernandez to create abstract mandala compositions. Inspired past the work of Will Sears and Grace DeGennaro, as role of our Walk the Line exhibition, participants will combine drawings with assemblage materials to create geometric compositions. Alanna Hernandez is an creative person and educator living in Wedlock, Maine. She enjoys creating abstract drawings that utilize line and crosshatching to convey emotion, movement, and tension. She currently…
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April 2022
Free First Sat | Apr
Sat, April ii | 10am-5pm Free admission Explore our exhibitions on view and appoint with ArtLab in the galleries. Complimentary and fun for the whole family unit! Made possible past our sponsors at Camden National Depository financial institution.
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Radical Reuse | MAEA Briefing
Radical Reuse | MAEA Spring Conference Saturday, April 2 | 8:30 – three:30pm Center for Maine Contemporary Art + Farnsworth Art Museum Registration required In support of the Maine Arts Didactics Association (MAEA), Center for Maine Contemporary Art is partnering with Farnsworth Fine art Museum to host the 2022 Spring Briefing for Maine's fine art educators. Relish a full twenty-four hour period of learning at both organizations, participate in workshops led past teaching artists, and enjoy downtown Rockland! Schedule: 8:30-9:00 Bank check-in and registration at…
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ArtLab for All Ages | April
Saturday, Apr 9| 2:00–four:00pm In-person | CMCA ArtLab Greetings From the Time to come Create postcards and unique mail service art with invitee artist, Margaret Rizzio, drawing on inspiration from Nicola López'due south use of mixed media and Chris Doyle's other worldly imagery. Using a wide array of materials including vintage ephemera, paper and stamps, attendees will create collaged scenes that collectively explore futuristic worlds. Artist Margaret Rizzio graduated from Bennington Higher in Vermont with a BA, in visual arts followed by an MFA, from Purchase Higher in New York. After…
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