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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: Paintings by Frances Pratt Caswell will be featured through Sept. 25, at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre Streets. The cafe is open Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Bethel: “Barn Again: Celebrating an American Icon,” a traveling exhibit, will be featured Aug. 19 through Oct. 22 at the Bethel Historical Society, 10-14 Broad St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 824-2908

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; and “Weaving a New Tradition: Baleen Baskets from North Alaska,” and “Beautiful Utility: A Look at Inuit Crafts,” 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: “Come Together” will be featured 12 through Sept. 5 at Maine Street Art, 141A Maine St. 721-0244

Brunswick: “Celebrating New England: the Sea, the Shore, the Countryside” will be featured through Sept. 3 at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 1-800-244-3007

Dover-Foxcroft: “Jane Daniels Hall of Dexter: Paintings/Tile Murals” will be featured through Aug. 31, at Abel Blood’s Pub/Restaurant, 100 E. Main St. 564-0041

Falmouth: “The Art of Monhegan Island: Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick” will be featured through Aug. 28 at Elizabeth Moss Gallery, 251 U.S. Route1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 781-2620

Falmouth: “Crossroads,” featuring the artwork of faculty, alumni and friends of MECA will be featured through Aug. 20 at Galeyrie Fine Art, 240 U.S. Route1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 775-5098

Farmington: New Vineyard artist Lord Clinton Casey will be featured through Aug. 31 at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilton Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

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

Gorham: “Paths and Vessels,” paintings by Susan Orfant will be featured through Sept. 10 at Elizabeth and Main Gallery of Art, 238 Main St.

Hallowell: “Ingrained,” recent works by John Kennedy of Bombahook Woodworks, will be featured through Aug. 28, 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: “Otherworlds,” missed media by Condon Kuhl and “Have Paint, Will Travel,” paintings by Georgeann Kuhl, will be featured through Sept. 5; and “One of a Kind,” jewelry by Condon Kuhl, will be featured Aug. 14 through Oct. 28, both at Widgeon Cove Gallery, 31 Widgeon Cove Gallery, Route12. 833-6081

Harrison: Paintings by Sara Bell and John Marshall will be featured through Sept. 4 at Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center, Deertrees Road. 583-6747

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, will be featured through Sept. 25; 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: Students of Mercedes Gastonguay will be featured through Aug. 19, at L-A College, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 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

Lisbon Falls: “A Hot Midsummer’s Night,” featuring glassblowing, glass fusing and lampworking techniques, will be featured through Oct. 31 at Sanctuary Gallery Maine Art Glass Studio, 51 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 846-0817

Litchfield: Ongoing, changing art exhibit by Aleta Manchester of New England landscapes, historical to the present, is featured at the Country Café, Route126. The café is open seven days a week. 268-4003

New Harbor: “Guns, Politics and Furs: Pemaquid and the Defense of the Eastern Frontier 1667-1761,” will be featured continuously at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site, Pemaquid Point. 677-2752

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, Route27. 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: The second show of the Western Maine Art Group will be featured through Aug. 31, at Matolcsy Art Center, 480 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 743-8580

Norway: Works by Maya Best, Katey Branch, Gemma Morrill-Dreher, Joanna Reese, Michael Raymond, Steve Traficonte and Deb Wentworth will be featured through Aug. 27 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. 743-2423

Ogunquit: “The Art of Emily Mason,” and “Diminutive Destinations,” landscape exhibition, will be featured through Aug. 24; and “Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings,” will be featured through Oct. 15, all at the Ogunquit Museum of Art, 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

Port Clyde: “Presence and Absence: Works on Water,” by Barbara Ernst Prey, will be featured through Aug. 15 at Blue Water Fine Arts, Main Street. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 372-8470

Portland: “Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection,” “Newly Restored McLellan House and L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Galleries” and “Form and Design in Glass and Ceramics,” all ongoing; “Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern,” will be featured through Oct. 16; and “John Walker: Works on Paper,” will be featured through Aug. 28, 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: “Treasures III: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration,” will be featured through Aug. 18; and photographs by Annette Dragon will be featured through Oct. 14, both at the USM Glickman Family Library. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 780-4269

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: “Figurative Wood Drawings,” by Bernard Langlais, will be featured through Aug. 31, at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

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

Portland: “Surfaces: by Sarah Knock,” will be featured through Aug. 27, 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: “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

Portland: “Salt – Granite – Spruce,” mezzotint Landscapes of coastal Maine by James Groleau, will be featured through Aug. 20 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “A Celebration of the Artists of Southern Maine,” will be featured through Sept. 26 at UNE Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. 221-4375

Portland: Photographer Heather Perry will present “Many Lives, Maine Rivers,” through Sept. 24 at Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: Works by Dorette Amell will be featured through Aug. 31 at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1710

Portland: “Revelations: The Artful Nude, 1930-2004,” will be featured through Aug. 31 at Radiant Light Gallery, 615 Congress St. Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. 252-7258

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Andrew Wyeth: Early Watercolors,” will be featured through Sept. 18; “Gulls, Ravens and a Vulture: The Ornithological Paintings of James Wyeth,” will be featured through Oct. 10; and “Lauren Shaw Multimedia Show,” will be featured through Nov. 27, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockland: Works by Alan Bray of Sangerville, John Wissemann of Cushing and Melanie Wissemann Essex of London, England, will be featured Aug. 17 through Sept. 10 at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. 594-5935

Rockport: “Water,” an exploration and interpretation of the importance of water to earth and its inhabitants, will be featured through Oct. 1; and “John Goodman: Boxers and Ballerinas,” will be featured through Oct. 1, both 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

Rumford: Works by Middy Thomas will be featured through Aug. 30 at Pennacook Art Center, 82 Congress St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 364-9972

Saco: “Simple Gifts: The Alfred Shakers 1783-1931,” will be featured through Oct. 30 at the Saco Museum, 371 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and Thursday, noon to 8 p.m. $4/$2 283-3861

Southwest Harbor: An association of artists from Maine and beyond will be featured through Aug. 14 at Harbor House Green. Gallery hours: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 989-4655

Waldoboro: “Handmade Carpets: Art Meets Function,” will be featured through Sept. 18, at Old Point Comford Gallery, 28 Pitcher Rd. 832-8133

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; and “Alex Katz: Collages,” will be featured through Sept. 18; and “Terry Winters: Prints and Sequences,” will be featured through Nov. 6, all at Colby College Museum of ARouteGallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549

Wiscasset: “Group Show: Two Painters and a Sculptor,” will be featured through Aug. 14, 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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