Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round, 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

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. to 5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: Photographs by Harry Clayton Davies will be featured through March 31, at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre streets. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Bath: “Filling in the Hole,” featuring five area artists, will be featured through April 1, at the Chocolate Church Arts Center Gallery, 798 Washington Ave. 442-8455

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. 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, 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: “Ars Antiqua: Treasures From the Ancient Mediterranean World,” will be featured through January 2007, at Bowdoin College at the Susan Dwight Bliss Room in Hubbard Hall. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3275

Brunswick: Works by flameworking artist Nicholas Repenning, will be featured through March 31; and a photography exhibit by Lee Hargadon, will be featured March 10 through May 1, both at Abracadabra Fine Arts Gallery, 11 Pleasant St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 725-0386

Brunswick: A group show of gallery artists and invited guests will be featured through March 4, 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: “Spirit of Evangeline,” will be featured through March 4, at Curtis Memorial Library. 721-0141

Farmingdale: “Time Travelers,” by Claudia Brahms will be featured through March 5, 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: Works by Fred O. Smith will be featured through March 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

Farmington: “NetWork: Chinese Peasant Art from Jinshan and Huxian,” and “Susan Bickford: Working Together, Working Apart,” will be featured through March 31, at UMF Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment. 778-7002

Freeport: Maine landscapes and seascapes and paintings and limited edition prints by Maine artists Eric Hopkins, Neil Welliver, Connie Hayes, Tom Curry, David Little, Wendy Turner and Jeff Colquhoun are featured continuously; and works by Connie Hayes and Eric Hopkins will be featured through April 7, all at Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, 149 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 865-4519

Gorham: “Debbie Reichard: The Brown Christmas,” will be featured through March 11, at USM Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. 780-5008

Lewiston: “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30; works by Keith Tyson will be featured through March 19; and “Activator,” a group exhibition of installations, will be featured through March 20, all at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: “Erratic Locations: Dudley Zopp,” will be featured through March 4, 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. 753-6500

Lewiston: “The Spirit of Evangeline,” traveling exhibit, will be featured through March 11, at the Franco-American Heritage Center. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, noon to 2 p.m. and Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m. 783-1585

Lewiston: Works by Tom Reichard will be featured through March 31 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

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: Works by Dianna Arcadipone, Michael Raymond, Greg Shattenberg and Don Best will be featured through March 31 at Fare Share Commons, 443 Main St. Gallery hours: Thursday and Friday, 3 to 6 and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 743-9044

Portland: Works by Willem de Kooning will be featured through December of 2006; “Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy,” will be featured through March 19; “The Maine Perspective – Architectural Drawings: Toward Modernism, 1925-1985,” will be featured through May 21; “Youth Art Month Exhibition 2006,” will be featured through April 2; and “Between Plan and Elevation: the Work of George Lloyd,” will be featured March 4 through May 7, 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: “The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views,” will be featured through July 31; and “Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community,” will be featured through April 30, both at USM Glickman Family Library, Forest Avenue. 780-4200

Portland: “Sara Crisp: Paintings,” and “Paul Heroux: Ceramics,” will be featured through March 31, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “Sharon Arnold: Photographs,” will be featured through March 31, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.772-1961

Portland: “Ways of Working,” featuring works by Jessyca Broekman and Tom Paiement, will be featured through April 1, 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: “Judith Allen and Eirene Efstathiou: New Work,” will be featured through March 25, at Whitney Art Works, 45 York St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 780-0700

Portland: “The Body Eclectic,” a selection of 38 works of art from the RBC Dain Reuscher Collection, will be featured through April 16, at MECA, 522 Congress St. 775-3052

Portland: “The Homeplace: Photographs from Historic African-American Hamlets in Kentucky’s Inner Bluegrass Region,” will be featured through May 6, at Salt Gallery, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: “Public Places/Private Spaces,” will be featured March 9 through May 6 at USM Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. 780-4800

Portland: “Oil and Water,” will be featured through April 30 at Radiant Light Gallery, 615 Congress St. 252-7258

Portland: “The Figure,” will be featured through March 25 at the Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “James Wyeth: Selected Works,” will be featured through May 31, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockport: “Plugged in Fest III,” will be featured through March 12 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: “Margaret Chase Smith: The Leap Year Valentine,” cartoon display, will be featured through March 31; and “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” trademark of Margaret Chase Smith, will be featured through Aug. 31, both at Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free 474-7133

Unity: “Environmental Perspectives: A Visual Discourse on Humanity’s Relationship with the Environment,” will be featured through March 31 at Unity College Leonard R. Craig Gallery. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. 948-3131

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; “Six Centuries of European Art: Selections From the Bowdoin College Museum of Art,” will be featured through May 21; and faculty exhibition “Listening: Scott Reed,” will be featured through April 30, all at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon 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