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

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: Works by Frederick Lynch will be featured through Dec. 10 at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. 725-8157

Farmington: Works by Stan and Barbara Keirstead will be featured through Dec. 31 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: “Recent Paintings,” by Dahlov Ipcar, will be featured through Dec. 16 at Frost Gully Gallery, 1159 Route 1. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m. 865-4505

Fryeburg: The Fryeburg Historical Society Museum, 96 Main St., is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and 5:30 to 9 p.m. and every Thursday 1 to 4 p.m. and at other times by appointment. 935-4192

Georgetown: New paintings by Scott Maier will be featured through Dec. 18 at West Island Gallery, 37 Bay Point Road. Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 371-9090

Gorham: “Joyce Treiman: Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” will be featured through Dec. 10 at USM Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. 780-5009

Hallowell: “KVAA Members’ Holiday Art Show and Sale,” will be held through Dec. 24, at Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Friday, noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 622-3813

Harpswell: “Art for the Holidays,” works by gallery artists, will be featured through Dec. 23, at Widgeon Cove Gallery, 31 Widgeon Cove Lane. Gallery hours: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. or by appointment. 833-6081

Lewiston: Prints by Robert Indiana will be featured through Dec. 17; and “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30, both at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” will be featured through Dec. 16 at L-A College Atrium Art Gallery, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 753-6554

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 over 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 Dec. 16 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; and “New Acquisitions 2005,” will be featured through Feb. 26, 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: Works by Lucy Breslin and Mark Johnson will be featured through Dec. 24, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and Sundays by appointment. 775-2222

Portland: Drawings by Heather Hagle and others will be featured through Dec. 17, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 772-1961

Portland: Works by Sequoia Miller and Hephzebah Williams will be featured through Dec. 16, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 879-5742

Portland: “Group Show,” will be featured through Dec. 31, 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 Diane Wiencke, Irene Stapleford and Ed Nadeau will be featured through Dec. 23 at Whitney Art Works, 45 York St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 780-0700

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 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 at MECA, 522 Congress St. 775-3052

Portland: “Ten Paces,” featuring black and white photography, will be featured Dec. 16 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

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: “Guardrailing,” by Gideon Bok, “Some Families and the Ties That Bind,” by Nancy Romines Walters and works by photographers Jason Crain, Daniel E. David, Jon H. Edwards, Anderson Giles, Wally Mason, Elke Morris, Claire Seidl and the late Todd Webb, will be featured through Dec. 17 at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. $5 236-2875

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

Rumford: Works by photographers Dirk MacKnight, Barbara Smith-Baker, Tracy Virgin, Steve Eldridge and other area artists will be featured through Dec. 25 at Red Hill Photography, 230 Waldo St.

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

Unity: “John Wilkinson: Selected Sculpture,” will be featured through Dec. 16 at Unity College Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. 948-3131

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