Auburn: Works by mixed media artist, Lynda G. Leonas Legare, will be featured through Dec. 31 at Auburn Savings Bank, 256 Court St. 782-0400

Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round; and “The Child in All of Us,” will be featured through Jan. 7, all at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Closed all state holidays. 287-2301

Bangor: The art of Italian, Nicoletta Ceccoli will be featured through Jan. 1 at Maine Discovery Museum, 74 Main St. 941-1199

Bangor: Works by Brownville artist Peggy Clark Lumpkins, will be featured through Dec. 31 at Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. 947-8336

Bar Harbor: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum,” is ongoing; “Mocotaugan: The Story and Art of the Crooked Knife,” will be featured through Dec. 31; and “Louis Sockalexis: Baseball’s First Indian,” will be featured through Dec. 31, all at Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 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. Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: The photography of David Whiteside will be featured through Jan. 8, at Mae’s Cafe and Bakery, corner of High and Centre streets. The cafe is open Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Brunswick: The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College is showing “Continuing Exhibits from the Collection” and “S.S. Roosevelt: A Model of Strength,” continuing. Gallery hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3416

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

Brunswick: “Ars Antiqua: Treasures From the Ancient Mediterranean World,” will be featured through January 2007 at Bowdoin College at the Susan Dwight Bliss Room in Hubbard Hall. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. 725-3275

Brunswick: “Le Grand Siecle,” featuring 17th-century French history and culture, will be featured through Jan. 23 at Bowdoin College Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 725-3832

Farmington: Works by Stan and Barbara Keirstead will be featured through Dec. 31; and works by Johnna G. Haskell will be featured Jan. 6 through Jan. 31, both at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, 710 Wilton Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

Freeport: Maine landscapes and seascapes and 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: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 865-4519

Lewiston: “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30; and works by Keith Tyson will be featured through March 19, both at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: Works by Irene Duplissis will be featured through Dec. 31, at Central Maine Medical Center Gallery. 795-2295

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

Litchfield: 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

New Portland: Ongoing exhibits, featured year round, include Indian art from the U.S., Canada, South America, with special focus on Maine’s Abenaki, also with a basket collection, at Nowetah’s American Indian Museum, Route 27. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 628-4981

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

Norway: Works by a group of artists will be featured through Dec. 31 at Commons Art Collective, 447 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 743-9579

Orono: “In the Road,” featuring emerging artists from the UMO senior capstone class, will be featured through Feb. 3 at UMO Carnegie Hall. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 581-3245

Portland: “Murray Hantman: From Image to Abstraction,” will be featured through Jan. 29; “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wurth Museum Collection,” will be featured through Dec. 31; “Site Specific: Installation Drawings Inspired by Students From Nathan Clifford Elementary School,” will be featured through Dec. 31; “New Acquisitions 2005,” will be featured through Feb. 26; and works by Willem de Kooning will be featured through December 2006, all at Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. 775-6148

Portland: “Group Show,” will be featured through Dec. 31; and works by Pamela Lawson, June August, Jeanne Hayman and Stephen Burt will be featured Jan. 5 through Jan. 28, both at the Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

Portland: A new exhibit of color photographs, “Arctic and Subarctic,” by Will Richard of Georgetown, will be featured through Jan. 20; photography exhibit featuring images of New England stone structures by Chris Church, will be featured through Jan. 1; “Invitational Osher Lifelong Learning Member Exhibit,” will be featured through Jan. 4; “The Ties That Bind: Experiences of Family in Maine, 1900 to Present,” will be featured through Jan. 27; and “The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views,” will be featured through July 31, all at USM Glickman Family Library, Forest Avenue. 780-4200

Portland: Works by Stefanie Rose Beniek will be featured through Jan. 29 at Akari Hair Care and Day Spa, 468 and 470 Fore St. 286-6261

Portland: The 11th annual Holiday Show will be featured through Jan. 2; and a group show of gallery artists will be featured Jan. 3 through Jan. 28, both at Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Gallery hours Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 772-2693

Portland: “Maine Women: Living on the Land,” will be featured through Jan. 22 at UNE Westbrook College, 716 Stevens Ave. 221-4499

Portland: “Faculty Exhibition 2006,” will be featured through Feb. 5; and student works will be featured Jan. 6 through Jan. 21, both at MECA Porteous Building, 522 Congress St. 775-3052

Portland: “Ten Paces,” featuring black and white photography, will be featured through Feb. 18 at Salt Gallery, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday, 5 to 8 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: “A Matter of Perception 2005,” fifth juried exhibition by artist with disabilities, Kathryn Hirsch “Branching Out,” and “The Art of the Book,” exhibit highlighting examples from the permanent collection, will be featured through Jan. 31, at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1700

Portland: Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and etchings by Crystal Nicholas of Greene, will be featured through Jan. 8 at Calitano Gallery, 29 Forest Ave. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., or by appointment. 774-1205

Portland: “Ian Mogavero: Sculpture,” will be featured through Dec. 31 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “Michael Waterman Selections,” will be featured Jan. 6 through Jan. 28 at Aucocisco, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 775-2222

Portland: Works by Juliet Gillespie, Susan Hoyt and Susan Tureen will be featured Jan. 6 through Jan. 19 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 772-1961

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; works by Frederick Lynch will be featured through Jan. 29; “Stewart Henderson: Rethinking the Enigma,” will be featured through Feb. 5; “Share the Wonder: A Seasonal Celebration,” will be featured through Jan. 22; and “James Wyeth: Selected Works,” will be featured through May 31, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Rockland: A large group show of gallery artists and friends, as well as new work by Whitney Wing Oppersdorff and Stew Henderson, will be featured through Dec. 31 at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 594-5935

Rockport: “Flora,” watercolors by Ann Makuck, will be featured through Jan. 31 at Prism Glass Studio Gallery and Cafe, 297 Commercial St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 596-6856

Turner: Over 40 members will exhibit their paintings, drawings and sculpture through Jan. 7 at the Turner Center for the Arts, Leavitt Institute Building. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 225-3115

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

Waterville: The paintings of Helen Stevens will be featured through Dec. 31 at Thomas College Art Gallery, 180 West River Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 859-1221

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