Late 19th-century critics celebrated Winslow Homer’s paintings of the Maine coast as big, powerful, and virile—masculine qualities that would describe representations of this locale well into the 20th century. The Maine coast thus was mapped as a manly domain, brought into view by vigorous brushwork and inhabited by rugged artists colonizing a new frontier. What…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
ZOOM LINK Katherine French, curator of the Jo Sandman Legacy Project speaks on the exhibition One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman. Inspired by her stay at Black Mountain College in 1951, Jo Sandman approached art making as a thoughtful process of experimentation. Katherine French, curator of the Sandman Legacy Project will discuss Sandman’s early experience at Black…
Artist Celeste Roberge will discuss her work Chaise Gabion, currently on view in OMAA’s sculpture park and gardens. Roberge will reflect on the material culture and geological processes that led her to consider what the “chaise” represents in an art historical context and what it means within her own practice. Roberge presents Chaise Gabion alongside…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
Gerald Peters, professor of literature at the University of Southern Maine, discusses “Nineteenth Century Utopianism and the American Social Imaginary,” relating to the exhibition Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley. ZOOM LINK
Adult ART WORKSHOP – $45 Land & Seascape Painting (07/29) Heather Lewis THURSDAY, JULY 29, 10 AM-12 PM Using traditional observational exercises, with an emphasis on composition, siting, value, setting-up a Using traditional observational exercises—emphasizing composition, placement, value, setting up a palette and organizing materials—learn and practice how to capture what you see in…
Leadership Circle & Members’ Open Reception: Alberto Rey & Wood Gaylor Join us for hors d’oeuvres and cocktails to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions Life Streams: Alberto Rey, Cuban-American Artist and Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor & American Modernism, 1913-1936. Alberto Rey will be in attendance for Friday’s reception, so join us on the…
In conjunction with Alberto Rey's retrospective exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, he will present a 40-minute presentation discussing the evolution of his work over the past thirty years and the community work influenced by his artwork. Alberto work is found in around twenty art museum collections and has written and illustrated three…
Adult ART WORKSHOP – $45 Land & Seascape Painting (08/4) Heather Lewis THURSDAY, august 4, 10 AM-12 PM Using traditional observational exercises, with an emphasis on composition, siting, value, setting-up a Using traditional observational exercises—emphasizing composition, placement, value, setting up a palette and organizing materials—learn and practice how to capture what you see in…
