NORWAY – Fare Share Commons will offer a group show featuring the work of eight members of the Commons Arts Collective. The show will be held from July 3 to 26.

Participants include the following:

Don Best, who lives and works in the foothills of the White Mountains, is a painter/sculptor. He gathers parts from the Maine woods, then adds handmade paper, wire and paint to embellish his structures. Last year Don entered a sculpture race in Bethel and his was chosen for “Most Creative.”

Maya Best, a multi media artist, enjoys working with handmade papers and adding lots of textures. She enjoys creating landscapes as well as abstract pieces, and will be having her own one person show at the Commons Gallery in November.

Mary Brooking had a 20-year career in graphic design and illustration before her present incarnation as an artist. She works in two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, primarily focusing on acrylic painting, paper collage, clay and found-object sculpture. She has exhibited her work previously in Ohio and New Mexico, and lives in Westbrook with her husband and two sons.

Alan Day has been drawn to dance and percussion since preschool. While the performing arts have continued to be his primary means of self-expression, photography has been a passion since he received his first Brownie camera on a family trip to California in 1961. His work in the CAC Summer Group show will feature recent color prints of images taken with an ancient Nikon using Kodacolor film.

Dennis Dreher has been a painter and a sculptor for 37 years and is also a theater set and lighting designer. He has also worked in the fields of fabric, architectural and machine design; wood and metal working; color theory; and computer graphic research. He has collaborated with Buckminster Fuller and held an artist in residency position at Harvard University. His work is in numerous private collections. Production versions of his work have been distributed worldwide. He explores the geometry of life using color and the technique of “space weaving.” He currently exhibits at 12 Orange Street Gallery and Nantucket Looms, both in Nantucket, Mass., and Gallery Aha in Zurich, Switzerland.

Joanna Reese is a Maine native and recent high school honors graduate. She lives in Greenwood and works by day selling rare and collectible books. Reese’s work ranges through the arts: photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and writing. She has studied dance and performed from an early age.

Om Devi Reynolds received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. She was a founding member of the Emeryville Artists Cooperative in Emeryville, Calif., and also of AR2, a collective of abstract painters in Santa Fe, N.M. Her work has been shown at venues in Santa Fe and San Francisco, and she contributed to CAC group shows in 2001 and 2002. She lives in Casco with her husband Eric Dibner.

Deb Wentworth has been teaching in SAD 17 for more than 15 years. She is an amateur photographer focusing on black-and-white prints and some alternative process work. The Commons Arts Collective was formed in 2001 to encourage creation and sharing of local art through support, interaction and collaboration.

The Fare Share Commons operates as a year-round gallery with monthly openings.

The CAC is supported by its members, gallery-goer donations and, recently, a grant from the Maine Community Foundation Expansion Arts Fund.