HALLOWELL — The Harlow Gallery will present Sit. Stay. Art! in partnership with the Kennebec Valley Humane Society in Augusta. The opening reception will take place from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4. The public is invited.

Sit. Stay Art! is the result of an open call to Maine artists for work depicting animals of all kinds. The Harlow Gallery is at 160 Water Street. For more information, visit harlowgallery.org.

The show will run through Saturday, Oct. 26. Sales commissions will be split between the KVHS and the Harlow Gallery, benefiting both animals and the arts.

Listed by town, the artists participating in Sit, Stay, Art! include:

Augusta – Keith Ludden, Julia Mason, Valerie Porter, Linwood Riggs

Bath – Judy Grace, Linda Murray

Bristol Sarah Gayle Carter, Judy Nixon

Brunswick – Marilyn Flanagan, Mary Becker Weiss

Bucksport -Keith Perkins

Damariscotta – Debra L. Arter

Fairfield- Chip Carty

Farmingdale – Scott King, Alice Rohman

Gardiner – Allison McKeen, Janet Favor, Tanya F. Russell, Christine Sullivan

Hallowell – Karen Allen, Ru Allen, Susanna Bryant, Amanda Chubbuck

Harpswell – Susan Rich

Jefferson – David Hodsdon

Kennebunk – Norma Johnsen

Kingfield – Penelope Hall

Lewiston – Brenda Giasson

Lincolnville – Petrea Noyes

Litchfield – Brian Kent

Madison – Susan J. Fowler

Mount Vernon – Pamela Hetherly

Nashua, NH – Vanessa N. De Zorzi

Newcastle – Leon Vanella

New Gloucester – Deborah Ann Hall

Newport – Jeanne Finley

Oakland – James Culley

Palermo – Jeanne Marie Coleman

Pittston – Judith Schuppien

Portland – Anna Griffin

Richmond – Lloyd Ferris, Jane Frost

Sidney – Marilyn J. Eccles, Lin Lee, Marie Spaulding

South China – Marcia Berkall

South Portland – Arwen Edsall

Springvale – Jean Noon

Vassalboro – Ann E. Rhinehardt

West Gardiner – Kay Morris

Winslow – Sara Porier

Winthrop – Mark Christopher, Stephanie Harkness, Don Kerr, Penny Markley, Reed Markley

Yarmouth – Molly Blakeman