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Augusta: “Maine’s Civil War Flags, “This Land Called Maine,” “12,000 Years in Maine,” “Maine Bounty: Woods, Sea and Granite,” “Made in Maine,” “Struggle for Identity,” and “Reflections of Maine,” are featured year round at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Sunday, Monday and all state holidays. 287-2301

Bangor: Works by Kristborg Whitney will be featured through Nov. 30 at Borders at the Bangor Mall. 990-3608

Bar Harbor: “Dr. Abbe’s Stone Age,” will be featured through Oct. 17; “My Grandmother’s Baskets: Selections by Watie Akins,” will be featured through December; “The Frank T. Siebert Native American Collection,” will be featured through Dec. 31; and “Thomas Barrett Paintings” will be featured through Oct. 3, all at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $4.50/$2 288-3519

Bar Harbor: Daniel Taylor’s photographs of Qomolangma will be featured through Oct. 29 at College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 288-5015

Bath: Ongoing exhibits, “A Maritime History of Maine,” “Lobstering and the Maine Coast” and “Percy and Small Shipyard,” at Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St. Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: Works by Jeff Mann of Arrowsic, Brenda Nelson of West Bath, Wayne Robbins of Bath and Bev Walker of Rangeley, will be featured through Oct. 30 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. 442-8455

Bath: Works by Bev Bevilacqua of Brunswick and Popham Beach, will be featured through Dec. 31 at Mae’s Cafe, 160 Center St. 442-8577

Boothbay Harbor: “A Taste of Carnival II,” photography by Karen Vander and paintings by John Vander, will be featured through Nov. 3, at Gold/Smith Gallery, 41 Commercial St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 633-6252

Brunswick: The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College is showing “Continuing Exhibits from the Collection” and “S.S. Roosevelt: A Model of Strength,” continuing; “Recent Acquisitions: The Ocheltree Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 31; and “Building the Peary Monument,” will be featured through Oct. 31. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3416

Brunswick: “Pejepscot Past Times: Objects from the Original Collection,” is ongoing; and “Decades of Dessert,” will be featured through January, both at Pejepscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday until 8 p.m. 729-6606

Brunswick: “Stefan Pastuhov: A Maine for All Seasons,” will be featured through Oct. 2; and “Paul Stone: Atmospheres of the Coast,” will be featured Oct. 8 through Nov. 6, both at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 1-800-244-3007

Brunswick: “Grace Degennaro: Paintings and Drawings,” will be featured through Oct. 9 at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. 725-8157

Brunswick: “Threatened and Endangered: Artist’s Books Created by Rebecca Goodale,” will be featured through Dec. 15 at Bowdoin College Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. 725-3832

Damariscotta: Color in the landscape by Philip Frey, paintings by John Neville and Jay Adams, sculpture by Cape Breton folk artist, Murray Gallant and cloisonné enamel jewelry by Hilary Dorsk, will be featured through Oct. 17, all at Firehouse Gallery, One Bristol Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-7299

Damariscotta: Artist Nicholas Lamia will present the exhibition “Re-Entry,” a selection of recent abstract paintings through Oct. 2; and “Trudi Curtis: Clay Out of Hand,” will be featured Oct. 8 through Oct. 23, both at Round Top Center for the Arts Art Gallery, Business Rt. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. 563-1507

Farmingdale: “John Carnes: Watercolors,” will be featured Oct. 8 through Dec. 11 at Renaissance Gallery, 685 Maine Ave. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 623-3575

Farmington: “Skip Schiel: Paired Photographs From the Levant: Images From Israel and Palestine” and “Seeds of Peace: Color Games,” will be featured through Oct. 21 at UMF Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment. 778-7000

Farmington: “Parents,” featuring photos of parents, will be featured through Nov. 30 at Franklin Memorial Hospital, 111 Franklin Health Commons. 779-2555

Fryeburg: The Fryeburg Historical Society Museum, 96 Main St., is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and 5:30 to 9 p.m. and every Thursday 1 to 4 p.m. and at other times by appointment. 935-4192

Georgetown: Works by Lois J. Strickland will be featured through Oct. 3 at West Island Gallery, 37 Bay Point Road. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. 371-9090

Gorham: “USM Art Faculty Exhibit,” will be featured through Oct. 17 at USM Area Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 780-5009

Hallowell: “The Figure at the Harlow Gallery,” drawings, paintings and sculpture of the human figure by members of the Kennebec Valley Art Association will be featured through Oct. 31 at the Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 622-3813

Hinckley: “The Portraits: Maine Natural History,” will be featured through Oct. 15 at L.C. Bates Museum, Rt. 201. 238-4250

Kennebunk: Paintings and sculpture by some of the best-known artists in Maine and New England will be featured through Oct. 28 at the Irvine School of Art and Gallery, River Tree Center for the Arts, 35 Western Ave. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 283-0171

Lewiston: “Wenda Gu: From Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium,” will be featured through Oct. 10; “Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity,” will be featured through Dec. 18; and “New Acquisitions: Local and Global Contemporary Photography,” will be featured through May 30, all at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: Works by Marian Baker of Yarmouth, Morris David Dorenfeld and Susan Dewsnap of Portland, will be featured through Oct. 23; and seven textiles from the Susan Bowditch collection will be featured through Oct. 23, all at L-A College Atrium Art Gallery, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free 753-6500

Liberty: Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of over 75 contemporary Maine artists and craftspeople are ongoing at the Davistown Museum, 58 Main St. Gallery hours: Labor Day through Christmas, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 288-5126

Litchfield: Ongoing, changing art exhibit by Aleta Manchester of New England landscapes, historical to the present, is featured at the Country Café, Rt. 126. The café is open seven days a week. 268-4003

New Portland: Ongoing exhibits, featured year round, include Indian art from the U.S., Canada, South America, with special focus on Maine’s Abenaki, also with a basket collection, at Nowetah’s American Indian Museum, Rt. 27. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 628-4981

Nobleboro: Paintings by Philip Barter, Eric Hopkins, Paul Plante, Elena Jahn, John Neville and Jane Dahmen are featured continuously at Gallery House, 5 Center St. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-8598

Norway: “Mixed Media: Sarah Shepley and Katey Branch,” will be featured through Oct. 30 at Fare Share Commons, 447 Main St. Gallery hours: Thursday and Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 743-9044

Ogunquit: The art of Janet Fish and watercolors by Eliot O’Hara will be featured through Oct. 15 at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. $5/$3 646-4909

Poland: Works by Annette Lavalee of Auburn, Neily Harris of Monmouth and Andrea van Voorst van Beest of Pownal will be featured through Oct. 31 at the Maine State Building on Poland Spring Hill. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 998-4142

Portland: “Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection,” “Newly Restored McLellan House and L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Galleries,” all ongoing; “European Muses, American Masters: 1870 to 1950,” will be featured through Oct. 17; “German Expressionist Graphics: The Bradford Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 24; “Lawrence Goldsmith Watercolors,” will be featured through Nov. 8; and “Street Smart: The Photographs of Garry Winogrand,” will be featured through Dec. 5, all at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 775-6148

Portland: “Shipwrecks,” will be featured through Nov. 1 at Portland Harbor Museum, Fort Road. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0338

Portland: “Life on Earth,” solo exhibit by Marsha Donahue, will be featured through Oct. 2, at Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 772-2693

Portland: “Annual Sculpture Invitational,” will be featured through Oct. 31; and “Shades of Picasso and Matisse: Richard Derby Tucker Retrospectives,” will be featured through Nov. 21, both at UNE Westbrook College Campus Art Gallery, 716 Stevens St. Gallery hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday, 1 to 7 p.m. 797-7261

Portland: “Our Family,” featuring four generations of the Toole family, will be featured through Dec. 4, at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: “Sparkle, Cut and Polishes,” by Toland Sand, will be featured through Oct. 17, at Stein Gallery Contemporary Glass, 195 Middle St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 772-9072

Portland: “Metamorphosis: Shapes of Men,” will be featured through Oct. 31 at Radiant Light Gallery, 615 Congress St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. through Labor Day Weekend and Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. and first Fridays after Labor Day. 252-7258

Portland: Recent photographs by Fran Vita-Taylor will be featured through Oct. 15 at USM Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Portland: Works by John Monroe and Matthew Robbins will be featured through Oct. 12 at Local 188, 188 State St. 761-7903

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Painting Maine: Connie Hayes and the Borrowed View,” will be featured through Oct. 17; “To the Lily Pond: Recent Watercolors by Stephen Pace,” will be featured through Oct. 24; and “MEESeeing Red: Rockwell Kent and the Farnsworth Art Museum,” will be featured through Nov. 28, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockport: “Couples,” “Scott Davis: Works” and “Maggie Foskett: Who Was Sadie Cooksey?” will be featured through Oct. 3; “Fall Fine Woodworking Exhibition,” a juried exhibition of work by members of the Maine Woodworkers Association, will be featured through Nov. 22; and “Return to Peyton Place: Photographs by Robert Monroe,” will be featured through Oct. 31, all at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. 236-2875

Turner: Works by John Bowdren, Scott Hunter, Marni Lawson, Michael Smith, Lois Strickland, Jennifer Wadsworth and Helen Warren will be featured through Dec. 31, at the Gulf Island Gallery, 16 River Road. Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 224-8296

Unity: Photographs by Helen and Scott Nearing will be featured through Oct. 20 at Unity College Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 948-3131

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; “Sites Unseen: Photographic Visions of the Vernacular Landscape,” will be featured through Oct. 10; “Contemporary Highlights From the Permanent Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 31; and “Artists Talk: Selections From the Skowhegan Lecture Archive,” will be featured through Oct. 31, all at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549

Yarmouth: “Yarmouth at the Turn of the Century,” ongoing, at Yarmouth Historical Society, Main Street. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 846-6259

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