Arts & Leisure

D'Alessandro Fine Art Gallery will present its 2006 Annual Autumn Show from Sept. 23 through Oct. 15. Celebrating its 50th year, the York Art Association invites the public to attend the opening of a fall show this Friday afternoon, Sept. 22, at the association's gallery on York Street in York Harbor. Area spots to pick-your-own produce, take a hayride, etc.

Ongoing

The fifth season of the Ogunquit Heritage Museum at the Captain James Winn House is off to an exciting start. While preliminary talks continue about Old York Historical Society's new educational center with the Planning Board this week, the community at large can join in the fun - and fundraising - later this month. Barn Gallery will host its fall exhibitions from Sept. 7 through Oct. 1. The York Art Association, celebrating its 50th year, is issuing a call for artists in watercolor to attend a two-day class in watercolor techniques at the YAA headquarters in York Harbor on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14. 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. 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.