BOOTHBAY HARBOR: “Oil Paintings” by Andy Benoit will be featured through Nov. 30 at Gold/Smith Gallery, 41 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 633-6252

BOWDOINHAM: “Smitten: Hands and Their Coverings” will be featured through Dec. 19 at Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday or by appointment. 666-3426

BRIDGTON: Works by Victoria Mares will be displayed through Dec. 2 at Gallery 302, 112 Main St. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 647-2787

BRUNSWICK: Paintings by Joe Godelski and Marilyn Voorhees Hansen will be featured through Dec. 1 at the Brunswick Town Council Chambers at Maine Street Station, 16 Station Ave. 798-6964

BRUNSWICK: Works by Garry Mitchell will be displayed through Nov. 20 at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St. Gallery hours: 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

BRUNSWICK: “Chairs From Six Centuries” will be featured through Jan. 16 at Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 725-3120

BRUNSWICK: “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art From the Robert and Judith Toll Collection” will be featured through Dec. 6, 2011 at Bowdoin College Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3416

FARMINGTON: A student exhibit will be featured through Dec. 12 at UMF Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday and by appointment. 778-7002

HALLOWELL: “Art for Hunger” will be displayed through Nov. 28 at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Gallery hours: noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. 622-3813

LEWISTON: “Whiteout,” an art show celebrating the upcoming winter season in Maine, will be displayed through Dec. 18 at L/A Arts Gallery 5, 49 Lisbon St. 782-7228

LEWISTON: “Altering Matters,” featuring textile arts from Surface Design Association artists, will be featured through Nov. 30 at USM L-A College Atrium Art Gallery, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. 753-6500

LEWISTON: “Portraits and Voices,” featuring workers in Lewiston-Auburn’s shoe industry, both past and present, will be displayed through Aug. 26 at Museum L-A, 35 Canal St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 333-3881

LEWISTON: “Les Femmes du Maroc,” an exhibition by Lalla Essaydi, and “Metamorphoses: A Collaboration with Ovid,” by Wally Reinhardt, will be featured through Dec. 20 at Bates College Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 786-6158

LEWISTON: The works of Irene Rothe and Julia Nichols will be featured through Nov. 27 at Central Maine Medical Center Rotating Art Gallery, 300 Main St.

LEWISTON: Works by three artists, Dan Coulombe, Delian Valeriani and Kristi Beck Touchette, will be featured through Dec. 22 at Captive Elements Gallery, 25 Landry Road. Gallery hours: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. 312-5539

NORTH YARMOUTH: “Homegrown: Inspired by Maine’s Natural State” will be featured through Dec. 4 at Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, noon to 3 p.m. Sunday or by appointment. 829-9203

NORWAY: Works by mother and son, painter Barbara Traficonte and photographer Steve Traficonte, will be displayed through Nov. 30 at Norway Savings Bank Operations Center, 356 Main St.

PORTLAND: John Haberle: American Master of Illusion” will be featured through Dec. 12; and “Photographs by Group f/64” will be shown through Dec. 5, both at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday through Columbus Day. 775-6148

PORTLAND: “The Architecture of Environmental Landscapes, Within and Without” will be featured through Dec. 19 at UNE Art Gallery. Gallery hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday. 221-4499

PORTLAND: “Diane Hudson – Photographs” will be featured through Nov. 27 at Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. 450-8499

PORTLAND: “I’m Just Sayin/I Know” will be featured through Nov. 20 at Whitney Art Works, 492 Congress St. Gallery hours: noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday or by appointment. 780-0700

PORTLAND: “Maps,” featuring works by Shannon Rankin, Irmari Nacht, Susan Prince Thompson and Jeff Woodbury, will be displayed through Nov. 27 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 699-5083

PORTLAND: “Photomontage” exhibit will be featured through Nov. 30 at Heron Point Gallery, 164 Middle St. 846-0817

PORTLAND: “David Itchkawitch Etchings,” “Nicole Hogarty – Cupcake Prints and More” and “Sylvia Bangs – Ink Drawings” will be featured through Nov. 23 at Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 29 Forest Ave. 699-2919

PORTLAND: “Vivaria Particula,” featuring the work of Claude Caswell, Charles Melcher, Mark Jamra, Margo Halverson, Megan O’Connell and Honour Mack, will be shown through Jan. 9 at Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and first Fridays until 8 p.m. 699-5029

PORTLAND: The “Fifth Biennial Invitational Portland Show” will be featured Dec. 2 through Dec. 31 at Greenhut Galleries, 145 Middle St.772-2693

POWNAL: Sculpture by Cabot Lyford will be featured through Nov. 21 at June LaCombe Sculpture, 90 Minot Road. 688-4468

ROCKLAND: “Four in Maine: Site Specific,” featuring the work of four artists, will be on display through Dec. 30; “Rug Hooking in Maine and Beyond” will be displayed Dec. 30; and “Alex Katz: New Work” will be viewed through Jan. 2, all at Farnsworth Art Museum. 596-0949

ROCKPORT: “Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later, 2000-2009” will be featured through Dec. 5 at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 236-2875

RUMFORD: Paintings, drawings and photographs by local art professionals will be featured through Dec. 3 at Pennacook Art Center, 60 Lowell St. 369-0396

TOPSHAM: “Thread by Thread,” handwoven and mixed media screen artwork by artist Sarah D. Haskell of York, will be featured through Nov. 30 at Maine Fiberarts Center/Gallery, 13 Main St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 721-0678

WATERVILLE: “The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time” will be featured through Jan. 2; “Currents 6: Gina Siepel” will be displayed through Feb. 13; “Fall Faculty Exhibition” will be shown through Jan. 2; and “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning” will be on view through April 3, all 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. 859-4000

WILTON: “Comfort, Woe and Wonder,” featuring 16 artists, will be displayed through Jan 31 at the administrative building, 20A Church Street, East Wilton. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. 645-3764