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Navigating COVID-19 for Maine Arts Organizations

March 30, 2020

Development Grants Help Arts Organizations in Need *Artists and organizations seeking relief funding for the COVID-19 emergency should visit the...

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Maine Arts Grant Deadlines Extended to April 2020

March 30, 2020

Maine Arts Commission Grant Deadlines Extended to April 2020 *Artists and organizations seeking relief funding for the COVID-19 emergency should...

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Maine Artist Relief Fund Information

March 30, 2020

MAINE ARTIST RELIEF FUND The Maine Artist Relief Fund will award grants of $500 to individual artists who live in Maine whose creative...

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Maine Arts Commission News Maine Arts Blog Highlights

2020 Maine Arts Commission Meetings

March 26, 2020

2020 Commission Meeting Schedule Tuesday, January 14, Governor Hill Mansion, 1-4pm Tuesday, March 10, Lewiston, 1-4pm Friday, March 27, Special...

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Calling all Musicians : Get Featured on the The Nite Show with Dan Cashman

March 24, 2020

**CALLING ALL MUSICIANS!!** We are soon entering a new - temporary - phase of The Nite Show. Interviews will be conducted via Skype. There will be...

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Creative Portland shares some promising news for the Arts Community during COVID-19 pandemic

March 23, 2020

CREATIVE PORTLAND ME 84 Free Street | Portland, ME 04101 | 207-370-4784 March 23, 2020 - For Immediate Release Creative Portland shares some...

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Call for Exhibition Proposals at Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

March 23, 2020

Pitch an exhibition for this fall at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA and bring your vision to life. Organize and present a well-curated exhibition of...

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Call for Art: Fact vs. Fiction

March 23, 2020

Historically, photographs and video have been considered "documented evidence", when in fact, all media can be elaborately staged, embellished, or...

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Call for Entries | Aesthetica Art Prize 2020

March 19, 2020

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2020 competition is looking for artists and photographers. The Art Prize is an outlet for expression and just one way to...

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Maine Arts & Culture Sector COVID-19 Resources & Information

March 18, 2020

UPDATED MARCH 18, 2020 - 3 p.m. Friends, The Maine Arts Commission continues to expand our resources and services amidst the COVID-19 public...

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Sunspot Literary Journal

March 12, 2020

Launched in January of 2019, Sunspot Literary Journal is changing the world by amplifying multinational voices. Published five times a year in...

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Rebel Without A Clue – A Way-Off Broadway Memoir

March 12, 2020

Steve Hrehovcik, Kennebunk author, to speak about memoir, "Rebel Without A Clue - A Way-Off Broadway Memoir" - Kennebunk Free Library, Monday, March...

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Artist H.M. Saffer, II Exhibits at Richard Boyd Art Gallery

March 11, 2020

(Portland, ME) Richard Boyd Art Gallery welcomes H.M. Saffer, II to the group of artists represented by the gallery in Southern Maine. HM is a...

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Press Release

Teachers as Practitioners: Auburn’s K-12 Art Teachers

March 11, 2020

Teachers as Practitioners: Auburn's K-12 Art Teachers L/A Arts Gallery, 221 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Maine March 19 - May 2, 2020 Lewiston, Maine,...

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“Regional Struggle – National Story: Maine’s Path to Statehood”

March 06, 2020

"Regional Struggle - National Story: Maine's Path to Statehood" Exhibition Opens at Maine State Museum on Saturday, March 14 Special Free Sunday...

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Exhibition/Commission

Paintings in Oil on View May 1st through May 30th

March 05, 2020

(Portland, ME) Stop in the gallery during the month of May to view our third annual exhibit of original oil paintings. Whether you're drawn to...

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Press Release

Mountains Without Peaks

March 05, 2020

CREATIVEPORTLAND ME 84 Free Street | Portland, ME | 04101 | 207-370-4784 | info@creativeportland.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 4, 2020 BOOK...

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General

Call to Artists - 18th Annual Senior College Festival of Art

March 05, 2020

CALL TO ARTISTS! Maine artists, 50 years of age and above, are invited to enter one piece of their work in the 18th Annual Senior College...

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Maine Arts Commission News Maine Arts Blog Highlights

Maine Arts Commission Names State’s Top 10 Poetry Out Loud Finalists

March 03, 2020

Maine Arts Commission Names State's Top 10 Poetry Out Loud Finalists AUGUSTA, ME—More than ten thousand high school students learned the joy...

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Call to Artists 2020

March 02, 2020

2020 CALL TO ARTISTS Arts Are Elementary is pleased to announce our 2020 Call to Artists! The Call lists each grade, subject matter, media,...

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A Walk in the Woods

February 27, 2020

Join us Sunday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m. for the opening of our fourth annual exhibit of American landscape paintings. Visual arts portraying landscapes...

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Public Art Learning Fund | Application live in March!

February 25, 2020

Public Art Learning Fund Application live in March! We are getting ready to launch our next Public Art Learning Fund (PALF) application, and I'm...

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Halcyon By The People Festival Open Call

February 24, 2020

Halcyon By The People Festival Open Call By the People, a free, city-wide international arts and dialogue festival presented by Halcyon in...

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