Join four of the nine Directors of The Maine Art Museum Trail members in conversation about the past, present, and future of their own institutions as well as the entirety of the landscape of art, museums, and cultural communities in Maine and beyond. Amanda Lahikainen (@Ogunquit Museum of American Art) Christopher Newell (@Abbe Museum), Jennifer…
Leadership Circles Event: OMAA's Leadership Circles Season Opening Reception, an exclusive preview of the spring exhibitions.
Join us opening day for OMAA's 68th season! Our galleries and sculpture garden are open 10 am - 5 pm daily from May 1 - October 31.
Join us as we kick off our 2021 exhibition season! Virtually preview our upcoming exhibitions and hear about new museum initiatives. Free for OMAA members. Interested in becoming a member? Join us today.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the world-re-nowned Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, describes mindfulness as “paying attention, on purpose, in the present mo-ment, without judgement.” This presentation covers the foundations of mindfulness, the science supporting the benefits of mindful-ness and how practicing mindfulness can offer opportunities…
A treat for the senses--color, texture, fragrance fill the galleries for one-weekend in June for "Art in Bloom." Area garden club designers creatively utilize flowers, seed pods, driftwood and other organic matter to interpret nearly 20 works of art on exhibition. Visitors have the opportunity to cast their vote for "Best in Show". This event…
The Garden Party is back for 2021! Join us to support the sculpture park & gardens in your best summer hat while listening to the Dry Martini Jazz Trio on the lawn. Cocktails and light fare will be served all afternoon. (Best hat wins a prize mid-afternoon!) $50 per person If It Rains: The party will…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
A conversation with Anthony Moore, Jean Gibran and Ken Turino, manager of community partnerships for Historic New England, related to the exhibition Kahlil G. Gibran: The Surface and Below. ZOOM LINK
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…
