EXHIBITION: With the heart and the reason | Titi de Baccarat

Railroad Square Cinema 17 Railroad Square, Waterville, ME, United States

I don't do politics, but I do practice art. My artistic creation is both poetic and social. I create because I dream. I believe things move only if we dream. But […]

EXHIBITION: New Mainers

Ocean House Gallery 299 Ocean Road, Cape Elizabeth, ME, United States

Photographs by Jan Pieter van Voorst from New Mainers: The Portrait of Our Immigrant Neighbors by Pat Nyhan andJan Pieter van Voorst, with a foreword by Reza Jalali. Hosted by Ocean House Gallery. […]

EXHIBITION: Seeing Otherwise

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME, United States

Exhibition that confronts and explores representations of mobility in art. Curated by Catherine Besteman, Chloé Powers, and Caroline Webb.     Featuring work by: Romare Bearden, Phong Bui, Lalla Essaydi, Whitfield Lovell, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Fred Wilson, […]

PANEL: History of Immigration in Maine

Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, United States

Held in conjunction with the exhibition Home: Reflections on Place, hosted by the Portland Public Library. Join us for a panel discussion about the History of Immigration in Maine hosted by Portland […]

FILM: Family and Community

YWCA Central Maine 130 East Ave., Lewiston, ME, United States

Screening of My American Girls by Aaron Matthews. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “packed with uncommon honesty and humor,” this intimate cinema-verite documentary captures the contradictions of contemporary immigrant life […]

EXHIBITION: Out of the Fog: Retracing the Path to Greenland

Maine Women Writers Collection 716 Stevens Ave., Portland, ME, United States

Pairing Iceblink, a project by artist Carrie Scanga, with the archival source materials from Marie Peary Stafford’s papers that inspired Scanga’s work, this exhibit explores the personal and societal projections […]

Gallery Talk: Seeing Otherwise | Caroline Webb

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME, United States

Co-curator Caroline Webb will introduce visitors to the Seeing Otherwise exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art. Featured work by Romare Bearden, Phong Bui, Lalla Essaydi, Whitfield Lovell, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard […]

FILM+PANEL: There Is My Home

Payson Smith Hall, USM Portland Campus 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME, United States

There Is My Home features Hawa Ibrahim and Batula Ismail, two women trying to support their families as farmers in Maine. Born and raised in the Jubba River Valley of Somalia, […]

EXHIBITION: VR Pop-up: At the Periphery | Maine College of Art & Design

Maine College of Art & Design 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United States

Virtual reality filmmaker Daniel Quintanilla, working with the Yarn Corporation, will be in the gallery to share At the Periphery, a virtual experience that explores the often paradoxical idea of […]