THOMASTON, ME: With its intriguing array of fine art and decorative rarities, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ 2024 Winter Enchantment Sale on February 23, 24 & 25 will stimulate the senses and beat the cold weather blues. Owner and auctioneer.
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Art students’ work on display
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Artists exhibit now hung at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland features the work of 15 artists who have attended the internationally renowned school since its inception in 1946.
Contributed / Maine Jewish Museum
Exhibits
Art Auction to benefit Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, view online through June 15, maineartgallerywiscasset.org.
“East End in Bloom,” installation of flowers through May at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland.
“The Ground Beneath You Holds You,” new works by Alice Jones, to June 26 at Elizabeth Moss Galleries, U.S. Route 1 in the Falmouth Shopping Center.
Seacoast arts: Survival stories of 2020 s mighty struggle
By Jeanné McCartin
This was an unrivaled year in the arts; exhausting, bewildering, and more painful than a horrific production of Hamlet starring a relative - no way out.
Keeping it local and to topic, the pandemic has been devastating on all art and culture concerns. Hundreds of artists, instructors and support staff are affected. Many are unemployed and others have limited opportunities.
The venues, galleries, companies hang by a thread. Each turned itself inside out to make things work - cleaning, closing, opening and doing it all over again. From March on, we lost most festivals, and many camps were cancelled or greatly diminished.