Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year-round; “Cabinet of Curiosities, the Museum Science Collections and You” continues; and “Wafuku – Traditional Formal and Bridal Kimono of Japan” will be featured Oct. 15 through Nov. 2 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

Bangor: Works by Maine photographer Jim Counihan will be featured through Oct. 31 at Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. 947-8336

Bangor: “A Legacy of Collecting: The Vincent A. Hartgen Years, 1946-1982” will be featured through Dec. 1 at the University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. $3 561-3350

Bar Harbor: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” is ongoing at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. 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. 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: Works by artists of the Belfast Poetry Festival will be featured 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

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: “Present Reminders of Yesterday Dreams,” featuring the works of John Michael Thomas Seitzer, will be held through Oct. 31 at Joy to the Wind Gallery, 34 Atlantic Ave. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 633-7025

Bridgton: Photographs by Brad Fuller of Brownfield will be featured through Nov. 11 at EFG Books and Art Gallery, 186 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. 647-9339

Brunswick: “Carved in Stone: Two Views of Inuit Art,” an exhibit of Canadian Inuit sculpture; “Polar Photography by Bryan Alexander,” featuring photographs of Northwest Greenland; “A Permanent Home: Recent Acquisitions From Alaska;” and “Chilling Discoveries About Global Warming,” featuring a piece of an ice core from the Greenland ice cap, will be shown through Jan. 31 at Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3416

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: “Piper Cub: A Sculptural Installation” featuring sculpture by Mark Wethli will be shown 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 through Oct. 31 at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. 725-5242

Brunswick: Works by glass artist Bonnie Faulkner will be featured through Nov. 1 at Bowdoin College Smith Union.

Brunswick: “Structural Elements: Perspectives in New England Architecture,” featuring the works of Suzanne Harden, Scott Moore and Paul Stone, will be shown through Nov. 3 at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 1-800-244-3007

Brunswick: “MFA Alumni Exhibition” will be featured through Oct. 27 at Fort Andross Mill, 14 Main St.

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 Gayle Barigar will be featured through Oct. 31 at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilton Road. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 778-5315

Farmington: Works by Robert Shetterly will be featured through Oct. 18 at UMF Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and by appointment. 778-7002

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

Georgetown: The work of 10 artists will be featured through Nov. 24 at West Island Gallery, 37 Bay Point Road. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 371-9090

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.

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 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

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: “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

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

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: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 563-8598

Norway: Works by Carolyn Rhoads will be featured through Oct. 28 at Frost Farm Gallery, 272 Pikes Hill. 743-8041

Norway: Works by photographer Tere Porter will be featured through Oct. 31 at Stephens Memorial Hospital.

Norway: “Honoring Our Mothers,” with works by Diana Arcadipone, Alan Day, Lisa Moore, Om Devi Reynolds, Greg Shattenberg and Debra Wentworth, will be featured through Nov. 24 at Commons Art Collective, 447 Main St. Gallery hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Ogunquit: “Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth’s Beauty,” “Paintings by Lincoln Perry” and “Watercolors from the OMAA Permanent Collection” will be featured through Oct. 31 at the Ogunquit Museum of American Cart, 543 Shore Road. Gallery hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. $7-$4 646-4909

Portland: “Masterpieces From the Currier Museum of Art” and “Selected N.C. Wyeth Masterworks” are ongoing; and “Graphite,” featuring paintings, drawings and sculpture on graphite, will be featured through Nov. 25, all at 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: “We Are Maine,” a multicultural exhibit and a fire truck exhibit, is ongoing; “Skyward,” a kite theme art exhibit, will be featured through Nov. 15; and “Tree Houses,” a hands-on exhibit, will be featured through Dec. 31 at the Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and after Memorial Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday. $6 828-1234

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; “A Season Under the Sun: Photographs From the Maxwell’s Farm Documentary,” by Susan Pease Porter, will be featured through Nov. 25; and “Faces of the Mind: Portraits of Mental Illness” will be featured through Nov. 25, all at 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: “Noriko Sakanishi: Constructions and Collages” will be featured through Oct. 27 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,” featuring works by Joseph Hirsch, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Reginald Marsh and others, will be shown 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: Works by Abbott Meader will be featured through Oct. 27 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 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

Portland: “American Social Realism: Prints of Joseph Hirsch, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Reginald Marsh and others, will be featured through Oct. 31 at A Fine Thing Gallery, 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: Works by artist and University of Maine professor Raphael Di Luzio will be featured through Nov. 3 at Jameson Art Group, 305 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 772-5522

Portland: “Dozier Bell” Fields” will be featured through Oct. 27 at Aucocisco Galleries, 613 Congress St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 775-2222

Portland: “Seeds of Peace – Photographs 200-2007” will be featured through Oct. 30 at Portland Public Library, Five Monument Square. 871-1710

Portland: “Graphite – Alison Hildreth, Greg Parker and Richard Wilson” will be featured through Oct. 27 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 772-1961

Portland: “Lori Rae Curole: MEOWcats” will be featured through Oct. 31 at Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Congress St. 773-6011

Richmond: “Pianoworks” will be featured Oct. 19 through Dec. 19 at Richmond Store Gallery, 54 Main St. 737-4724

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, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $8/$5 596-6457

Rumford: “Still Life” will be featured through Oct. 31 at Pennacook Art Center, Congress Street.

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

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

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz” “Ancient Art” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896” are ongoing at Colby College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. 872-3549

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