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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, all 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

Augusta: Works of a husband and wife team, Steven R. Dunn and Sandra Leinonen-Dunn, will be featured through June 30 at the office of Finance Authority of Maine. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 623-3263

Damariscotta: Works by Abbott Meader of Oakland and Forrest Meader of Poolesville, Md., will be featured through June 26 at Inka Urpi Galeria, 79 Bristol Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-2057

Dover-Foxcroft: “Carol Gorecki of Orneville, Twp.: Flower Photography,” will be featured through June 30, at Abel Blood’s Pub/Restaurant, 100 E. Main Street. 564-0041

Falmouth: “New Color Works by Ben Georgia,” will be featured through June 19; and “Art for Camp Scholarships,” will be featured through June 30, both at Elizabeth Moss Gallery, 251 U.S. Rt. 1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 781-2620

Freeport: “Janet C. Manyan: Recent Paintings,” will be featured June 20 through July 22 at Frost Gully Gallery, 1159 U.S. Rt. 1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m. 865-4505

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: Paintings by Katharina Keoughan will be featured through July 31 at West Island Gallery, 37 Bay Point Road. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 371-9090

Hallowell: “Peter Buotte: To Baghdad and Back,” will be featured through June 26, at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Friday, noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 622-3813

Harpswell: “New/Small Paintings,” by Georgeann Kuhl will be featured June 19 through July 15 at Widgeon Cove Gallery, 31 Widgeon Cove Gallery, Rt. 12. 833-6081

Lewiston: “The Environment of Landscape: Works From the Olivia and Elwood Straub Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 1; “Bates College Faculty,” featuring several artists prominent on the Maine scene and “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through Oct. 2; and “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30, 2006, 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 Paul Boucher will be featured through June 30, at Central Maine Medical Center. 795-2295

Lewiston: “Threatened and Endangered: Artist’s Books Created by Rebecca Goodale,” will be featured through July 1; and artwork by 15 students of local artist Martha Truscott-Boardman will be featured through July 1, both at L-A College Atrium Gallery, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 753-6554

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, and 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

Portland: “Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection,” “Newly Restored McLellan House and L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Galleries,” all ongoing; “Modern British Silkscreen Prints,” will be featured through June 26; and ; and “Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern,” will be featured June 23 through Oct. 16, 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: A glass and ceramics exhibition will be featured through June 30; “Treasures III: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration,” will be featured through August 18; “A Sense of Time, A Sense of Place,” works by seven book artists studying under Rebecca Goodale, will be featured through June 30; and “Traces,” featuring the Asian photographs of Mason Philip Smith, will be featured through July 30, all at the USM Glickman Family Library. Gallery hours: Tuesday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, 12:30 to 4:30 and 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 780-4276

Portland: “Talking Walls: Discover Your World,” will be featured through September of 2005 at Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Labor Day to Memorial Day. 828-1234

Portland: “Catherine Porter Paintings,” will be featured through July 23; and “Figurative Wood Drawings,” by Bernard Langlais, will be featured through August 31, both at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: An exhibition of Asian ceramics will be featured through June 30 at the Dora L. Small School. 591-9035

Portland: “War Flowers: From Swords to Plowshares,” will be featured through August 19, at USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 780-5008

Portland: “Flavors From Life,” photographs by and of the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered, will be featured through July 9, at Radiant Light Gallery, 615 Congress St. Gallery hours: Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. 252-7258.

Portland: “Bernard Langlais: Abstract Wood Reliefs,” will be featured through August 31, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Margaret Lawrence: Backyard and Beyond,” will be featured through June 25, at Greenhut Galleries, Middle Street. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 772-2693

Portland: “Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection,” will be featured through July 3 at UNE Art Gallery, Westbrook College Campus. 797-7261

Portland: “Pause,” a group show of black and white photography, documentary radio and nonfiction writing will be featured through July 8 at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and first Fridays from 5 to 8 p.m. 7610660

Portland: “Quint-Rose: Paper, Color and Form,” will be featured through June 25 at the Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

Portland: “Old Salts and New Directions: Portland Harbor and the People Who Make it Work,” and “Snow Squall: The Journey of an American Clipper Ship,” will be featured through Nov. 27 at Portland Harbor Museum, SMCC Campus, Fort Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $4/$2 799-6337

Pownal: “Touchstones: Sculpture Participating With Place,” by June LaCombe, will be featured June 22 through July 25 at Hawk Ridge Farm. 688-4468

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; and “Andrew Wyeth: Early Watercolors,” will be featured through Sept. 18, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockport: “Cuban Connections,” an exhibition by Mainers who have photographed Cuba, “Diana Cherbuliez and Alison Hildreth: Unreal Estate” and “Transcribing Time,” by Grace DeGennaro, Gail Spaien and Alice Spencer, will be featured through July 24, 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. $5 236-2875

Skowhegan: “Welcome Ike: President Eisenhower Visits Skowhegan, a photo display, will be featured through June 30; and “Let’s Play: Pastimes from the Past,” will be featured through July 1, both at Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free 474-7133

Topsham: “Botanical Energies,” an exhibit of Jennifer Morrow Wilson’s vibrant collages, will be featured through July 31 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. 721-0678

Waldoboro: “Tapestry in Maine,” a juried exhibition showcasing the technique of tapestry, will be featured through July 31, at Old Point Comford Gallery. 832-8133

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; and an exhibition of the world’s most popular and seductive musical instrument, the guitar, will be featured through July 10, 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

Wiscasset: “The Untamed Coast,” featuring oils, pastels and watercolors by the gallery’s regionally and nationally recognized contemporary artists who paint throughout Maine, will be featured through July 1 at Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 67 Main St. Gallery hours: daily, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 882-7682

Wiscasset: The 47th Annual Juried Exhibit will be featured through July 10 at Maine Art Gallery, Warren Street. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.882-7511

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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