Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year-round; and “Cabinet of Curiosities, the Museum Science Collections and You” continues at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. 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. Gallery hours: 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: “Interpretations,” featuring the works of Thomas Connelly, Tom Hall, Robert Solotaire and John Whalley, will be held through Oct. 27 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 442-8455

Belfast: “Maine: Five Perspectives,” with works by Murad Sayen of Paris, Edward Leaman of Hallowell, Keith Schneider of Liberty, Gayle Fitzpatrick of Ogunquit and Mary Cupp of Falmouth, will be featured through Oct. 2; and works by artists of the Belfast Poetry Festival will be featured Oct. 5 through Oct. 24 at the Phoenix Gallery, 159 High St. 338-0087

Bethel: A display cafe reminiscent of natural history cabinets assembled during the Victorian age will be featured through Dec. 31 at the Bethel Historical Society O’Neil Robinson House. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday-Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. weekends. 824-2908

Biddeford: Pastel landscape paintings by Liz Moberg will be featured through Oct. 4 at UNE Stella Maris Hall. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 284-6394

Boothbay Harbor: Works by John Vander will be featured through Oct. 23 at Gold/Smith Gallery, 41 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 633-6252

Boothbay Harbor: The work of 30 sculptors from New England will be featured through Oct. 9 at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. 688-4468

Brunswick: “Pejepscot Past Times: Objects from the Original Collection” is ongoing at Pejepscot Historical Society, 159 Park Row. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and until 8 p.m. Thursday. 729-6606

Brunswick: “Darkness and Light: New Paintings in Oil and Watercolor” by Robert Spring will be featured through Sept. 29 at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 729-5500

Brunswick: “Piper Cub: A Sculptural Installation,” sculpture by Mark Wethli, will be featured through Nov. 3 at Coleman Burke Gallery, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 725-3761

Brunswick: Studies and drawings of “Dance of Two Cultures” will be featured Oct. 1 through Oct. 31 at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. 725-5242

Castine: Works by Italian artist Letizia Mancino will be featured through Oct. 17 at Maine Maritime Academy. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. 326-2256

Farmington: Works by husband-wife duo Peter Dumont and Megan Roberts will be featured through Sept. 30 at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilson Road. 778-5315

Freeport: Maine landscapes and seascapes, 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 at Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, 149 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 865-4519

Gorham: “USM Self-Taught Art Exhibits” will be featured through Nov. 11 at USM Art Gallery. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Hallowell: “Versions of the Truth,” recent works by Ian B. Ormon and Melissa Post van der Burg, will be featured through Sept. 30 at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. 622-3813

Hinckley: “Artists as Naturalists” will feature works by 12 artists through Oct. 15; and “Gerd H. Heinrich: a 20th Century Biologist and Museum Collector” will be featured through April 15 both at L.C. Bates Museum, Route 201. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. $2.50/$1 238-4250

Kingfield: “Pat Chandler: Beaches, Marshes and Woods” will be featured through Oct. 8 at Stadley Gallery, 225 Main St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. daily.

Lewiston: “Green Horizons,” an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability, will be featured through Dec. 9 at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. 786-6158

Lewiston: “Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills,” will be featured through Feb. 28 at Museum L-A, 35 Canal St. 333-3881

Lewiston: “Maine Sculptors” will be featured through Oct. 13 at L-A College Atrium Art Gallery, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. 753-6511

Lewiston: Photography by John Galgano will be featured through Sept. 30 at Central Maine Medical Center, Rotating Art Gallery, 300 Main St. 346-3462

Lewiston: “Creative Economy” will be featured through Oct. 27 at L/A Arts Gallery 5, 49 Lisbon St. Gallery hours: 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday and by appointment. 576-4805

Lewiston: Works by Roderick Dew will be featured through Nov. 17 at Atelier Opulesce, 143 Canal St. 784-0000

Liberty: An exhibit of Early American hand tools, Native American artifacts and the work of more than 75 contemporary Maine artists and craftspeople is ongoing at the Davistown Museum, 58 Main St. Gallery hours, Labor Day through Christmas, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 288-5126

Litchfield: An 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

Norway: Portraiture, landscape and still life work of Beverly Banks will be featured through Sept. 30; and works by Carolyn Rhoads will be featured Oct. 5 through Oct. 28, both at Frost Farm Gallery, 272 Pikes Hill. 743-8041

Portland: “Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art” and “Selected N.C. Wyeth Masterworks” are ongoing; “Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful” will be featured through Oct. 8; and “Graphite,” featuring paintings, drawings and sculpture on graphite, will be featured through Nov. 25 at the Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday. 775-6148

Portland: “Picturing Portland: A Century of Change” will be featured through Nov. 25 at Portland Harbor Museum on the waterfront. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday during April and May and seven days a week starting Memorial Day Weekend. $4 799-6337

Portland: The sixth annual Sculpture Garden Invitational will be featured through Oct. 28; and “Faces of the Mind: Portraits of Mental Illness” will be featured through Nov. 25 at UNE Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. Gallery hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday. 221-4499

Portland: Works by Crystal Yacolino, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Liebermann, Franz Marc and more will be featured through Sept. 30 at Ed Pollack Fine Arts, 25 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 699-2919

Portland: “Nighduc,” new work by modernist painter William Manning, will be featured through Sept. 30 at Jameson Modern, 305 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and by appointment. 772-5522

Portland: “Duane Paluska: Paintings and Sculpture” will be featured through Sept. 29; and “Noriko Sakanishi: Constructions and Collages” will be featured Oct. 4 through Oct. 27, both at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “Berenice Abbott: Science Photographs – Laws of Physics and Abstraction” will be featured through Oct. 31 at Susan Maasch Fine Art, 29 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 699-2961

Portland: “American Social Realism,” works by Joseph Hirsch, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Reginald Marsh and others, will be featured through Oct. 31 at Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 25 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 699-2919

Portland: “Graphite: Prints From Anderson Ranch by Meg Brown Payson” will be featured through Sept. 29 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 772-1961

Portland: “John Andres: Painting in Relief” will be featured through Sept. 29; and works by Abbott Meader will be featured Oct. 4 through Oct. 27, both at Cooper Jackson Gallery, 70 India St. 772-2108

Portland: “Drawn In: New Drawings by Christina Goodwin” will be featured through Oct. 19 at the Drawing Room, 142 High St. 632-2391

Portland: Works by Monroe artist Alison Rector will be featured Oct. 4 through Oct. 27 at Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and by appointment. 772-2693

Rockland: “The Wyeth Collection” and “Alex Katz: Early Paintings” are featured continuously; “Bo Bartlett: Still Point” will be featured through Oct. 14; “N.C. Wyeth: Artist and Illustrator” will be featured through Nov. 1; “Kosti Ruohomaa Photographs” will be featured through March 9; and “James Wyeth: Selected Works” will be featured through May 18 at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $8/$5 596-6457

Rumford: Paintings, sculptures, fibers, flowers and other art work related to flowers will be featured through Sept. 30 at Pennacook Art Center, 82 Congress St. 364-9972

St. George: “Lee Gabriel: New Work” will be featured through Oct. 14 at the Drawing Room Fine Arts and Illustration, 864 River Road. 372-6242

Thomaston: “Finnish American Music, Handicrafts and Sauna” will be featured through Oct. 13 at Finnish Heritage House. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays.

Topsham: “Gloria Brown: Photographer” will be featured through Oct. 30 at Topsham Public Library Crooker Gallery, 25 Foreside Road. 725-1727

Turner: Works by Maine artist Helen Warren will be featured through Sept. 29 at Turner Center for the Arts. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. 225-3115

Unity: “Ben Potter: Drawings, Painting and Sculpture” will be featured through Oct. 13 at Unity College Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. 947-3131

Wiscasset: “Coastal Tracings and Selected Works” will be featured through Oct. 8 at James Patrick Gallery, 25 Fort Hill St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 882-9951

Yarmouth: “Yarmouth at the Turn of the Century” is ongoing at Yarmouth Historical Society, Main Street. Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. 846-6259

Yarmouth: “A Dog and Pony Show,” presenting canine, equine and carriage driving artworks, will be featured through Oct. 28 at Skyline Farm Carriage Museum. Gallery hours: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday or by appointment. 829-9203