Augusta: Exhibits of Maine’s natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage are featured year round, 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: “New Work,” by Bangor artist LeeAnne Mallonee will be featured through Sept. 30 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 “Dr. Abbe’s Museum in Mr. Dorr’s Park,” will be featured through Oct. 16, 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.-5 p.m. daily except major holidays. 443-1316

Bath: Paintings by Frances Pratt Caswell will be featured through Sept. 25, at Mae’s Café and Bakery, corner of High and Centre Streets. The café is open Tuesday-Sunday. 442-8577

Lewiston: “The Environment of Landscape: Works From the Olivia and Elwood Straub Collection,” will be featured through Oct. 1; “Bates College Faculty,” featuring several artists prominent on the Maine scene will be featured through Sept. 24; 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 Sept. 11 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

Lewiston: Works by local photographer, Richard J. Profenno,” will be featured through Sept. 30 at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Beeaker Gallery. 777-9263

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

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 Sept. 9 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: “Talking Walls: Discover Your World,” will be featured through September of 2005 at Children’s Museum of Maine, 142 Free St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Labor Day to Memorial Day. 828-1234

Portland: “Vincent Hartgen Paintings,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Todd Webb Photographs,” will be featured through Sept. 24, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

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: “Tom Hall: The Sebago Paintings,” will be featured through Sept. 30, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “A Celebration of the Artists of Southern Maine,” will be featured through Sept. 26 at UNE Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave. 221-4375

Portland: Photographer Heather Perry will present “Many Lives, Maine Rivers,” through Sept. 24 at Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, 110 Exchange St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 761-0660

Portland: “Bread and Puppet Photographs by John Boeckeler,” will be featured through Sept. 29, at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. Gallery hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 9 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free 871-1710

Portland: “Arthur Thompson: (1907-1988): Alive With Color and Line,” will be featured through Sept. 30 at The Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

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

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Andrew Wyeth: Early Watercolors,” will be featured through Sept. 18; “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: Works by Alan Bray of Sangerville, John Wissemann of Cushing and Melanie Wissemann Essex of London, England, will be featured through Sept. 10; and new work by Alan Clark of Cushing will be featured Sept. 14 through Oct. 15, both at Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday and by appointment. 594-5935

Rockport: “Water,” an exploration and interpretation of the importance of water to earth and its inhabitants, will be featured through Oct. 1; and “John Goodman: Boxers and Ballerinas,” will be featured through Oct. 1, both 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

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

Topsham: “Stephanie Green Levy: Art Quilt Landscapes,” will be featured Sept. 11 through Sept. 30 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. Gallery hours: weekdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. 721-0678

Waldoboro: “Handmade Carpets: Art Meets Function,” will be featured through Sept. 18, at Old Point Comford Gallery, 28 Pitcher Rd. 832-8133

Waterville: “The Works of Alex Katz,” “Ancient Art,” and “Whistler’s Etchings and Lithotints, 1858-1896,” all ongoing; and “Alex Katz: Collages,” will be featured through Sept. 18; and “Terry Winters: Prints and Sequences,” will be featured through Nov. 6, 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: Works by Linda Murray will be featured through Sept 30 at Thomas College Art Gallery, 180 W. River Road. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; 859-1221

Wiscasset: “Painting With Watercolor,” will be featured Sept. 15 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