Join us for Free First Fridays at OMAA! The museum will stay open late on the First Friday of every month, and will be offering free admission to all visitors between 5pm and 8pm. Come enjoy the museum until 8:00pm! Special for July 3rd, from 5:30-6:30pm, you can enjoy a live performance by UNH Music…
Meet animal ambassadors from the Center for Wildlife at the Museum! Programming includes time to sketch and draw the animals while learning about their habitat. Then come inside and explore the Museum. Suitable for all ages!
Heather Lewis - Landscape Drawing Class Friday, July 10th, 3 – 5pm This workshop is a classic, set in OMAA’s sculpture gardens with its breathtaking views of Maine’s iconic rocky cliffs and sea. Artist/teacher Heather Lewis will share her love of sketching in this location and offer her expertise on capturing what is seen in…
Join us at the historic Leavitt Theatre for a lecture by Grace Yasumura. Yasumura co-curated the 2024-2025 exhibition The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She will speak about the show, which examined the intertwined histories of sculpture and race in the United States, and brought together…
Jenny Ibsen - Handbuilding Ceramic Trophy Workshop Sunday, July 26, 10am – 1pm This workshop with ceramic artist Jenny Ibsen will explore relationships between color, illustration and playful forms through handbuilding tiny trophies. Jenny's most recent series of trophies existed in an imaginary world in which rabbits give each other awards—Head Cabbage, Top Carrot, #1…
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER Meet animal ambassadors from the Center for Wildlife at the Museum! Programming includes time to sketch and draw the animals while learning about their habitat. Then come inside and explore the Museum. Suitable for all ages!
*Membership or Leadership Circle Membership required to attend this event.
Ashley Page – Papermaking Workshop Friday, August 7, 11am – 2pm Join Portland based artist Ashley Page in this hands-on papermaking workshop! Focused on the beauty of botanicals, attendees will learn basic sheet forming and incorporate fresh and dried plant material within the papers. Participants can create floral compositions within their pages using embedding or…
Join us for an OMAA Conversation with Jonathan D. Katz on Thursday, August 13 from 5-7 PM. This event will take place at the Museum and is free and open to the public. Jonathan D. Katz is a pioneering scholar, curator, and activist whose work has helped establish the field of queer art history. As an author and curator,…
Save the Date: 2026 Art by the Sea Auction & Gala Thursday, August 20, 2026, 5-8pm The Ogunquit Museum of American Art joyfully invites you to this year's Art by the Sea Auction & Gala. This year we are excited to celebrate our most anticipated event of the season again at Cliff House Maine! We…
