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OMAA Online: ARTifacts Charles Woodbury: Open Studio

June 8, 2020

If you’ve been following our ARTifacts Series, you may recall an earlier post sharing our behind-the-scenes preview of OMAA’s re-creation of Charles Woodbury’s Perkins Cove studio. Today, as part of OMAA Online, Curator and Collections Manager Ruth Greene-McNally and Preparator Larry Hayden provide a progress update as they install original artifacts on loan to the museum for the upcoming exhibition, “Charles Woodbury: Open Studio.” OMAA is grateful to exhibition sponsors Elizabeth Cutler & Joanna Manikas and the Maine Bicentennial Commission for their support. Stay tuned for updates on the completed project and be sure to share your questions and thoughts in the comment line!

Artist Pamela Moulton* looks forward to her “Garden Intervention”

May 15, 2017

It looks like mother nature will be welcoming guests to my Garden Intervention at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art under sunny skies this Wednesday! Come roll the giant dice of emotions, then map out your emotional triggers on my giant weaving. Come find me, I will be near the pond, kept company by two…

Andres Verzosa remembers Dahlov Ipcar

March 3, 2017

As many of you may know by now, one-of-a-kind painter, sculptor and illustrator Dahlov Ipcar passed away last month.  She was 99 years young.  I had been working closely with Dahlov and her family on behalf of the museum to organize an exhibition of her work for the OMAA’s 64th Season opening this May.  Our…

Summer is here!

July 11, 2016

By Jill Burke Summer gives me a great opportunity to reflect on all we’ve accomplished during the school year through OMAA’s educational outreach program. The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing elementary class recently came to the Museum for its last field trip of the year, with a primary focus on…

A Touch of Grey

March 9, 2016

By Jill Burke February, a typically grey monochromatic month in New England, was brightened for me by my weekly OMAA Art Education Outreach visits.  I love working with the art groups at Waban Lifeworks in Sanford and The Art Certificate Program in Biddeford because the students are so happy to be there and appreciative of…

Hanging Out with Bernie

February 24, 2016

by Tori Rasche No, not Bernie Sanders. I recently got to ‘hang out’ with another Bernie, the artist Bernard Karfiol (1886-1952), through a collection of his drawings and ephemera from his life that was generously given to OMAA last year by the Karfiol family. As a gallery attendant, I normally work at the museum when…

How did I get here?

February 8, 2016

By Alison Gibbs “And you may ask yourself, ‘Well … how did I get here?’” Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime In my career, I’ve been a Wall Street wire reporter, a radio and TV news producer, a banking PR flack, and a government consulting marketeer, among other things. So how did I get to…

OMAA on the Go at Governor Baxter School for the Deaf

January 22, 2016

by Jill Burke A big part of my job as the OMAA Education Coordinator involves visiting schools and community organizations weekly between September and June to share objects from the museum’s permanent collection. I  teach the students about the artist, the medium, and elements of art and design that can be drawn from the artwork,…

Where do I winter?

January 12, 2016

By Ron Crusan I often get asked, “What do you do all winter while the OMAA is closed?”  After our season ends October 31, I don’t pack up and head to Florida to wait for our May 1 opening (appealing as that may seem on a 20 degree Maine-in-January day).  In fact, I and a…

Rose Marasco: Patrons of Husbandry

June 9, 2015

Maine Photo Project at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art Rose Marasco: Patrons of Husbandry   The second in a series of five photography exhibitions at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Rose Marasco: Patrons of Husbandry (June 5 – July 5, 2015) highlights selections from the artist’s Maine Grange series. The series was created…