Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round; and “A Glow From Within,” stained and leaded glass items, will be featured through Nov. 5, all at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Closed all state holidays. 287-2301

Bangor: “New Work,” by Bangor artist LeeAnne Mallonee will be featured through Sept. 30 at Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. 947-8336

Bar Harbor: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum,” is ongoing; “Mocotaugan: The Story and Art of the Crooked Knife,” will be featured through Dec. 31; and “Dr. Abbe’s Museum in Mr. Dorr’s Park,” will be featured through Oct. 16, all at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 288-3519

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; and the photography of David Whiteside will be featured Sept. 27 through Jan. 8, both at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre Streets. The cafe is open Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Damariscotta: “New Works,” by Jane Dahmen, Arthur DiMambro, Grant Drumheller, Ralph Moxcey and Nils Obel, will be featured through Oct. 2, at the Firehouse Gallery, One Bristol Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-7299

Damariscotta: Works by the Plein-Air Painting Class will be featured through Sept. 30 at Round Top Center for the Arts, Business Route 1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 563-1507

Farmington: Works by Laurie Barker will be featured through Sept. 30 at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, Rts. 2 and 4. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

Farmington: “Harold Garde: The Maine Years,” will be featured through Oct. 20 at USM Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment. 778-7002

Kennebunkport: “Annual Scholarship Show,” will be featured through Sept. 26 at the Gallery on Chase Hill, 10 Chase Hill Road. 967-0049

Lewiston: “The Environment of Landscape: Works From the Olivia and Elwood Straub Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 1; “Bagels and Grits: Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South,” photographs by Bill Aron, will be featured through Oct. 5; “Bates College Faculty,” featuring several artists prominent on the Maine scene will be featured through Sept. 24; 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: “The Figure Revealed II,” statewide juried exhibit of drawings, paintings and sculpture, will be featured through Oct. 22 at L-A College Atrium 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. 753-6500

Lewiston: Works by local photographer, Richard J. Profenno,” will be featured through Sept. 30 at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Beeaker Gallery. 777-9263

Lewiston: “Bagels and Grits: Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South,” photographs by Bill Aron, will be featured through Oct. 5 at Bates College Chase Hall Gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: The art work of Arlene McConnell will be featured through Sept. 30 at Central Maine Medical Center. 795-2295

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, Route 126. 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, Route 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: The Norway-Paris Fish and Game Association migratory waterfowl art collection will be featured through Nov. 30 at Norway Public Library, 151 Main St. 743-5309

Ocean Park: “Entering Autumn,” will be featured through Oct. 25 at Saco Bay Artists. 284-9949

Ogunquit: “Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings,” will be featured through Oct. 15; and “Memories of World War II: Photographs From the Associated Press Archives,” will be featured through Oct. 15, both 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

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 Neil Welliver: water and Sky,” will be featured through Nov. 27, 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: Photographs by Annette Dragon will be featured through Oct. 14, 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: “Vincent Hartgen Paintings,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Todd Webb Photographs,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

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: “Tom Hall: The Sebago Paintings,” will be featured through Sept. 30, 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: “Bread and Puppet Photographs by John Boeckeler,” will be featured through Sept. 29, at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. Gallery hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 9 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 871-1710

Portland: “Arthur Thompson: (1907-1988): Alive With Color and Line,” will be featured through Sept. 30 at The Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

Portland: “Donna Lee Rollins: Negative Nudes in a Positive Light,” will be featured through Oct. 29 at Radiant Light Gallery, 142 High St. Gallery hours: Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., first Fridays, 5 to 9 p.m. or by appointment. 775-1485

Portland: “Recent USM Percent for Art Projects,” will be featured through Oct. 20 at USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 780-5008

Portland: “Aaron T. Stephan: Full of Theses” and “Toni Wolf: My Nature,” will be featured through Sept. 24 at Whitney Art Works, 45 York St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 780-0700

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “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: New work by Alan Clark of Cushing will be featured through Oct. 15, at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday and by appointment. 594-5935

Rockland: Photographs by Joyce Tenneson and Charles Altschul will be featured through Oct. 1 at Lincoln Street Center, 24 Lincoln St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. 594-6490

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

Rockport: “Flora,” watercolors by Ann Makuck, will be featured through Jan. 31 at Prism Glass Studio Gallery and Cafe, 297 Commercial St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 596-6856

Rumford: “Weaving the Colors of Space,” sculpture by Dennis Dreher, will be featured through Oct. 31 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

Topsham: “Stephanie Green Levy: Art Quilt Landscapes,” will be featured through Sept. 30 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. 721-0678

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

Waterville: Works by Linda Murray will be featured through Sept 30 at Thomas College Art Gallery, 180 W. River Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; 859-1221

Wiscasset: “Painting With Watercolor,” will be featured through Oct. 16 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