AUBURN: Colorful artwork by John Girouard will be displayed through Jan. 7 at the Art and Ale window at Gritty McDuff’s, 68 Main St. 782-7228

AUGUSTA: “The Wreck of the Nottingham Galley” will be featured through March 31 at Maine State Museum. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. 287-6604

BOOTHBAY HARBOR: Woodcuts and etchings by R. Keith Rendall will be featured through Dec. 31 at Gold/Smith Gallery, 41 Commercial St. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 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: Glass creations by Nathan Macomber will be featured through Dec. 31 at Gallery 302, 38 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: “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’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. 725-3416

DAMARISCOTTA: “Fine Art for Gift-Giving” will be displayed through Jan. 18 at Damariscotta River Grill. 699-5500

FARMINGTON: Works by Jennifer Wadsworth of Turner will be featured through Dec. 31 at SugarWood Gallery, 248 Broadway.

HALLOWELL: The annual holiday art show and sale will continue through Jan. 8 at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Hours: noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. 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: A homemade Santa by Therese Morissette Deschenes will be featured through Dec. 23; and “Portraits and Voices,” featuring workers in Lewiston-Auburn’s shoe industrywill 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’s Museum of Art. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 786-6158

LEWISTON: Works by 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

LEWISTON: Oil paintings by 16 art students will be featured through Dec. 31 at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 Middle St. 376-3344

LEWISTON: Works by Dave Mireault and Debra Trafton will be featured through Jan. 1 at Art Pulse, 178 Lisbon St.

NEWRY: “Over the River and Through the Woods: Maine Views at the Phoenix House and Well” will be featured Dec. 18 through Feb. 28 at the Phoenix House, 9 Timberline Drive. Gallery hours: 2 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.

NORWAY: “Jingle,” a holiday art and gift show, will be featured through Dec. 31 at Commons Art Collective, 443 Main St. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday. 743-9579

PORTLAND: Works by Rackstraw Downes will be displayed through March 20 at the 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: “Addison Woolley and Friends” will be displayed through Dec. 23 at Addison Woolley Gallery, 132 Washington Ave. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. 450-8499

PORTLAND: “Pots and Vessels: Warren MacKenzie, Sequoia Miller, Paul Heroux and Ron King” will be displayed through Dec. 18 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 699-5083

PORTLAND: “Vivaria Particula,” featuring the work of Claude Caswell, Charles Melcher, Mark Jamra, Margo Halverson, Megan O’Connell and Honour Mack, will be on view 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 through Dec. 31 at Greenhut Galleries, 145 Middle St.772-2693

PORTLAND: “Something From Nothing: Papier Mache Sculpture,” by Nanci Kahn, will be featured through Dec. 18 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and by appointment. 772-1961

PORTLAND: “Simple Complexities,” featuring works by John Sideli, Jewel Rechsteiner and Stephen Benenson, will be displayed through Dec. 22 at Whitney Art Works, 492 Congress St. Gallery hours: noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday or by appointment. 780-0700

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

ROCKLAND: “Drawing Show,” featuring more than 70 artists, will be on view through Dec. 23 at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 594-5935

TOPSHAM: “Diagonal Knitting: A Different Slant,” by Katharine Cobey, will be featured through Feb. 25 at Maine Fiberarts, 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; and “Fall Faculty Exhibition” will be shown through Jan. 2 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

WEST PARIS: “One Woman’s Journey: The Art of Jane Porter Gibson” will be featured through Jan. 29 at the West Paris Public Library. Hours: 1:30 to 6 p.m. Monday and Friday, 1:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. 674-2004

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

WILTON: The paintings and photography of Mt. Blue High School senior Kayleigh Morin of Wilton will be featured through Dec. 31 at the Wilton Free Public Library.