Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round; and “Call Your Mother – Communication and Community in Bryant Pond,” will be featured through May 28, 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

Bath: “Celebrating Excellence in Maine Art,” a selection of paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists of the Bath/Brunswick area, will be featured through July 15 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center Gallery, 798 Washington St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. 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 Lee Winslow Court will be featured through May 31, at Abracadabra Fine Arts Gallery, 11 Pleasant St. Gallery hours, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 725-0386

Brunswick: New Work by Meghan Brady and Mark Wethli will be featured through June 10 at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St. Gallery hours, weekdays, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. 725-8157

Lewiston: “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30; and works by seven senior art majors will be featured through May 28, both at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: “Maman Disait,” created by Rhea Cote Robbins, Franco-American author, will be featured through May 31 at the Franco-American Heritage Center, Cedar Street. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free 783-1585

Lewiston: Works by William Anctil will be featured through May 31 at Central Maine Medical Center. 795-2295

Lewiston: “Forests: Anchors of Earth, Tellers of Time,” will be featured May 25 through July 7 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. 753-6500

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: Photographs by Ed Stevens will be featured through May 31 at Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main St. 743-5309

Norway: The Commons Art Collective new members exhibition will be featured through May 31 at the Gallery at the Commons, 443 Main St. Gallery hours: Friday, 5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by appointment. 743-9579

Portland: Works by Willem de Kooning will be featured through December 2006; “The Maine Perspective – Architectural Drawings: Toward Modernism, 1925-1985,” will be featured through May 21; “In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers,” will be featured through June 4; works by Maine Indian students will be featured through June 18; and “Crack the Code,” will be featured through Sept. 22, 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, at USM Glickman Family Library, Forest Avenue. 780-4200

Portland: “In New Light,” an exhibit featuring the newest paintings and drawings by Damariscotta artist, John Whalley, will be featured through May 27, 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: “Harbor Forts: A Look Behind the Walls,” will be featured through Nov. 26 at Portland Harbor Museum, on the waterfront. Gallery hours, Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $4 799-6337

Portland: “Willa Vennema: New Paintings,” will be featured through May 27, at the Clown, 123 Middle St.756-7399

Portland: “3 Photographers at 3 Fish,” will feature the works of three Peaks Island photographers through May 30 at 3 Fish Gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave. Gallery hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, noon to 6 p.m. and Thursday-Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. 615-5722

Portland: The seventh annual Casco Bay Frames employee art exhibit will be featured through May 31 at Casco Bay Frames, 295 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 774-1260

Portland: “We Are Maine,” multicultural exhibit, will be ongoing at the Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and after Memorial Day, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $6 828-1234

Portland: Works by Stephen Burt, Denise Fasanello, Geoffrey Leven and Jenny Feder will be featured through June 10 at Whitney Art Works, 45 York St. Gallery hours, Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 780-0700

Portland: “Everything – and the Kitchen Sink, by members of the Tuesday Group, will be featured through May 31 at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1710

Portland: “Frequency,” the latest student show, will be featured through June 30 at Salt Gallery, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

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: “CMCA’s 2006 Biennial Juried Exhibition,” will be featured through May 27 at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell St. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. $5 236-2875

Searsport: “Out of the Box,” featuring artists from southern, midcoast and central Maine, will be held through June 3 at Organic Image Art Gallery, 8 West Main St. Gallery hours,Tuesday and Friday, noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, or by appointment. 567-3481

Skowhegan: “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” trademark of Margaret Chase Smith, will be featured through Aug. 31, at Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Ave. Gallery hours, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free 474-7133

Topsham: Works by the Merry Meeting Art Association will be featured through June 13 at Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road. 725-1727

Topsham: Works by weaver Michael Patterson will be featured through June 30 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. Gallery hours, week days, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 721-0678

Turner: “What it Means to be Human,” will be featured through June 3, at Turner Center for the Arts, Leavitt Institute Building, 98 Matthews Way. Gallery hours, Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 225-3115

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; and “Six Centuries of European Art: Selections From the Bowdoin College Museum of Art,” will be featured through May 21, 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