Arts & Leisure
"I'm having a hot flash/A tropical hot flash/My personal summer/Is really a bummer./I'm having a hot flash/Comes on like a car crash/No warning just hot flash./Outside it is nippy/But I'm hot and drippy./I'm having a hot flash." (To the tune of Irving Berlin's "We're Having a Heat Wave" of 1933.)
The artist Craig Hood, a University of New Hampshire professor who is represented in the current Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) exhibition, commented to museum director and exhibit curator Mike Culver that he would try to bring his students to our beautiful oceanfront museum to broaden their exposure to contemporary art, in particular to the many ways in which the figure can dominate and/or send a message.
The Old York Garden Club is hosting a standard flower show, "A Tribute to Maine Authors," at the York Public Library on Sept. 15 and 16.
The Bossov Ballet Troup's rendition of "The Red Shoes "is coming to Ogunquit.
Barn Gallery will host its fall exhibitions from Sept. 7 through Oct. 1.
Instructor Marina Nazarova Forbes will offer a three-day workshop entitled "The Art of Icon Painting" at D'Alessandro Fine Art Gallery.
Ongoing
Museum benefit exhibition of Sacred Art opens Aug. 18
"I have a whole collection of palette knives, very expensive, good ones," comments the artist Grant Drumheller, a University of New Hampshire professor who is currently having a one-man exhibit of his recent art at the George Marshall Store Gallery's downstairs dock level.
A few years ago, I visited Olana State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark located a few miles south of Hudson, N.Y.
This past winter, curator Mary Harding logged thousands of miles traveling through four New England states to personally select work for "Road Trip," the current exhibition on view at the George Marshall Store Gallery.
A few years ago, I visited Olana State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark located a few miles south of Hudson, N.Y.
The York Art Association is having a busy year, celebrating its 50th anniversary with a succession of shows, the latest of which, "Impressions of York," is continuing through Sept. 17.
The fifth season of the Ogunquit Heritage Museum at the Captain James Winn House is off to an exciting start.
Every year, the Portland Museum of Art mounts a major show designed to interest Maine tourists and residents.
Just north of the Kittery traffic circle, on the easterly side of Route 1 at its junction with Rogers Road is the Kittery Historical and Naval Museum, a seasonal non-profit museum honoring Kittery's past as a naval vessel building center during the American Revolution.
