Bethel: “Barn Again: Celebrating an American Icon,” a traveling exhibit, will be featured through Oct. 22 at the Bethel Historical Society, 10-14 Broad St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 824-2908

Bridgton: A collection of 15 murals by Rufus Porter (1792-1884), will be featured through Oct. 9 at the Rufus Porter Museum, 67 N. High St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and after Labor Day, Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $5/$4 647-2828

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; and “Weaving a New Tradition: Baleen Baskets from North Alaska,” and “Beautiful Utility: A Look at Inuit Crafts,” will be featured through Oct. 31. 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: New paintings by Garry Mitchell will be featured through Oct. 22, at ICON Contemporary Art, 19 Main St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. 725-8157

Brunswick: “Quaint and Curious: The Charm of Our Coastal Villages,” featuring paintings by Suzanne Harden, Scott Moore and Caleb Stone, will be featured through Oct. 8 at Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St. 1-800-244-3007

Damariscotta: “New Works,” by Jane Dahmen, Arthur DiMambro, Grant Drumheller, Ralph Moxcey and Nils Obel, will be featured through Oct. 2; and exhibition of new works by the Firehouse Gallery artists will be featured Oct. 6 through Nov. 30, both at the Firehouse Gallery, 1 Bristol Road. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 563-7299

Farmington: “Harold Garde: The Maine Years,” will be featured through Oct. 20 at USM Art Gallery, 246 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment. 778-7002

Farmington: Works by June Dragoon will be featured through Oct. 31 at Heirlooms of Tomorrow, Routes 2 and 4. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 778-5315

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

Harpswell: “One of a Kind,” jewelry by Condon Kuhl, will be featured through Oct. 28, at Widgeon Cove Gallery, 31 Widgeon Cove Gallery, Route 12. 833-6081

Hebron: “Persians Impressions,” photography exhibit by Marta Morse, will be featured through Oct. 15 at Hebron Academy Hupper Art Gallery. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday-Thursday, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free 966-2100

Lewiston: “The Environment of Landscape: Works From the Olivia and Elwood Straub Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 1; “Bagels and Grits: Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South,” photographs by Bill Aron, will be featured through Oct. 5; prints by Robert Indiana will be featured through Dec. 17; and “Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology,” will be featured through May 30, 2006, all at Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 786-6158

Lewiston: “The Figure Revealed II,” statewide juried exhibit of drawings, paintings and sculpture, will be featured through Oct. 22 at L-A College Atrium 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. 753-6500

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

Lisbon Falls: “A Hot Midsummer’s Night,” featuring glassblowing, glass fusing and lampworking techniques, will be featured through Oct. 31 at Sanctuary Gallery Maine Art Glass Studio, 51 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 846-0817

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: The Norway-Paris Fish and Game Association migratory waterfowl art collection will be featured through Nov. 30 at Norway Public Library, 151 Main St. 743-5309

Ocean Park: “Entering Autumn,” will be featured through Oct. 25 at Saco Bay Artists. 284-9949

Ogunquit: “Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings,” will be featured through Oct. 15; and “Memories of World War II: Photographs From the Associated Press Archives,” will be featured through Oct. 15, both at the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Shore Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. $5/$3 646-4909

Portland: “Contemporary Art From the Permanent Collection,” “Newly Restored McLellan House and L.D.M. Sweat Memorial Galleries” and “Form and Design in Glass and Ceramics,” all ongoing; “Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern,” will be featured through Oct. 16; and Neil Welliver: water and Sky,” will be featured through Nov. 27, 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: Photographs by Annette Dragon will be featured through Oct. 14, at the USM Glickman Family Library. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 780-4269

Portland: “Old Salts and New Directions: Portland Harbor and the People Who Make it Work,” and “Snow Squall: The Journey of an American Clipper Ship,” will be featured through Nov. 27 at Portland Harbor Museum, SMCC Campus, Fort Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $4/$2 799-6337

Portland: “Donna Lee Rollins: Negative Nudes in a Positive Light,” will be featured through Oct. 29 at Radiant Light Gallery, 142 High St. Gallery hours: Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., first Fridays, 5 to 9 p.m. or by appointment. 775-1485

Portland: “Recent USM Percent for Art Projects,” will be featured through Oct. 20 at USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 780-5008

Portland: “Richard Lethem Paintings,” will be featured Oct. 5 through Oct. 29 at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and Sundays by appointment. 775-2222

Portland: “Richard Lethem and George Lloyd Paintings will be featured Oct. 7 through Oct. 29 at the Eastland Park Hotel, 157 High St. 775-2227

Portland: Drawings by two British artists, Rebecca Fortnum and Paul Thomas, will be featured Oct. 7 through Oct. 29 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 112 High St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 772-1961

Portland: Paintings by Alison Hildreth and sculpture by Diana Cherbuliez will be featured Oct. 6 through Oct. 29 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 879-5742

Portland: “Extreme Nature – Images From the World’s Edge,” by Bill Curtsinger, will be featured Oct. 5 through Nov. 27 at UNE Westbrook College Campus. 221-4499

Portland: “Tom Paiement: Acoustical/Visual Resonance II,” will be featured Oct. 6 through Oct. 29 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: “In the Yard: A Year at Bath Iron Works,” will be featured Oct. 6 through Nov. 22 at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Gulls, Ravens and a Vulture: The Ornithological Paintings of James Wyeth,” will be featured through Oct. 10; and “Lauren Shaw Multimedia Show,” will be featured through Nov. 27, 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: New work by Alan Clark of Cushing will be featured through Oct. 15, at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday and by appointment. 594-5935

Rockland: Photographs by Joyce Tenneson and Charles Altschul will be featured through Oct. 1 at Lincoln Street Center, 24 Lincoln St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. 594-6490

Rockport: “Water,” an exploration and interpretation of the importance of water to earth and its inhabitants, will be featured through Oct. 1; “John Goodman: Boxers and Ballerinas,” will be featured through Oct. 1; and “Work of the Hand,” will be featured Oct. 7 through Oct. 16, all 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: “Weaving the Colors of Space,” sculpture by Dennis Dreher, will be featured through Oct. 31 at Pennacook Art Center, 82 Congress St. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 364-9972

Saco: “Simple Gifts: The Alfred Shakers 1783-1931,” will be featured through Oct. 30 at the Saco Museum, 371 Main St. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. and Thursday, noon to 8 p.m. $4/$2 283-3861

Turner: Autumn Open Juried Exhibit will be featured Oct. 2 through Nov. 18 at the Turner Center for the Arts at Leavitt Institute Building.

Unity: “Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America,” works by Margot Anne Kelley, will be featured through Oct. 22 at Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery at Unity College. 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; and “Terry Winters: Prints and Sequences,” will be featured through Nov. 6, all at Colby College Museum of ARoute Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549

Wiscasset: “Painting With Watercolor,” will be featured through Oct. 16 at Maine Art Gallery, Warren Street. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 882-7511

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