Auburn: Works by Nancy Preble will be featured through April 15 at Gritty’s, corner of Court and Main streets. 782-7228

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 toFriday, 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: “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 to 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 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: Works by Josefina Auslender will be featured through April 6 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: “Cafe,” will be featured through April 10 at Maine Street Art of Brunswick. 721-0244

Farmington: Works by Fred O. Smith will be featured through March 31, at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilton Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

Farmington: “War Flowers – From Swords to Plowshares,” will be featured through March 23; and “NetWork: Chinese Peasant Art from Jinshan and Huxian,” and “Susan Bickford: Working Together, Working Apart,” will be featured through March 31, both 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 to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 865-4519

Hallowell: “Kennebec Landscapes: Art and the Land,” will be featured through April 9 at Slate’s Restaurant. 377-2848

Kennebunk: “Prelude to Spring,” featuring paintings and sculpture by artists in Maine and New England, will be featured through April 4 at River Tree Center for the Arts, 35 Western Ave. Gallery hours: Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 602-2269

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 to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: Works by Tom Reichard will be featured through March 31 at Central Maine Medical Center. 795-2295

Lewiston: The 17th annual All-Maine Invitational art exhibit will be featured March 24 through May 6 at L-A College, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday to 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. 782-7228

Liberty: Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of more than 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

Ocean Park: Works by Tammy Charles will be featured through May 3 at Saco Bay Artists. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 284-9949

Portland: Works by Willem de Kooning will be featured through December 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 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: “Pink is the New Black,” juried student exhibit, will be featured through March 31; “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, all at USM Glickman Family Library, Forest Avenue. 780-4200

Portland: “Will Richard: Arctic and Subarctic,” color photographs from Labrador, Nunavut and Greenland, will be featured through March 24; “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 annual exhibition for MECA students will be featured through March 31; and “The Body Eclectic,” a selection of 38 works of art from the RBC Dain Reuscher Collection, will be featured through April 16, both 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 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

Portland: Works by the Ossipee Riverlands Artists League will be featured through March 31 at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1700

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: Tri-County High School Exhibition will be featured through March 26, 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

Turner: “The Artist’s Choice,” a collection of more than 50 small works, will be featured through April 29 at Turner Center for the Arts. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 225-3115

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

Waterville: Works by D. Crosby Brown will be featured through March 31 at Thomas College Art Gallery, 180 W. River Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 859-1221

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