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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. 25; 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: Works by Linda Spalding will be featured through July 31, at Central Maine Medical Center. 795-2295

Lewiston: Students of Mercedes Gastonguay will be featured through Aug. 19, at L-A College, 51 Westminster St. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free 753-6500

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 Duncan Slade,” will be featured through July 30 at the Norway Memorial Library, Main Street.

Norway: Works by Ray Snedeker, wood carver, will be featured through July 31; and the second show of the Western Maine Art Group will be featured Aug. 1 through Aug. 31, both at Matolcsy Art Center, 480 Main St. Gallery hours: Monday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 743-8580

Norway: Works by Maya Best, Katey Branch, Gemma Morrill-Dreher, Joanna Reese, Michael Raymond, Steve Traficonte and Deb Wentworth will be featured Aug. 5 through Aug. 27 at Fare Share Commons, 447 Main St. Gallery hours: Thursday and Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 743-2423

Ogunquit: “The Art of Emily Mason,” and “Diminutive Destinations,” landscape exhibition, will be featured through Aug. 24; and “Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings,” will be featured through Oct. 15, all 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

Port Clyde: “Presence and Absence: Works on Water,” by Barbara Ernst Prey, will be featured through Aug. 15 at Blue Water Fine Arts, Main Street. Gallery hours: daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 372-8470

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 “John Walker: Works on Paper,” will be featured through Aug. 28, 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: “Treasures III: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration,” will be featured through Aug. 18; and “Traces,” featuring the Asian photographs of Mason Philip Smith, will be featured through July 30, all at the USM Glickman Family Library. Gallery hours: Tuesday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, 12:30 to 4:30 and 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 780-4276

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: “Figurative Wood Drawings,” by Bernard Langlais, will be featured through Aug. 31, at Aucocisco, 157 High St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “War Flowers: From Swords to Plowshares,” will be featured through Aug. 19, at USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 780-5008

Portland: “Bernard Langlais: Abstract Wood Reliefs,” will be featured through Aug. 31, at Aucocisco Galleries, 615A Congress St. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. 775-2227

Portland: “Alison Goodwin’s solo exhibition of new work will be featured through July 30; and “Surfaces: by Sarah Knock,” will be featured Aug. 4 through Aug. 27, both at Greenhut Galleries, Middle Street. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 772-2693

Portland: “Abstract Reconciliations: John Andrews and Deborah Randall,” will be featured through July 30, at the Clown, 123 Middle St. 756-7399

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: “Salt – Granite – Spruce,” mezzotint Landscapes of coastal Maine by James Groleau, will be featured through Aug. 20 at June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 522 Congress St. 879-5742

Portland: “Maine Sculptors 2005,” will be featured through July 30 at Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. 871-1710

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,” Aug. 4 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

Rockland: “Maine in America,” and “The Wyeth Collection,” are featured continuously; “Andrew Wyeth: Early Watercolors,” will be featured through Sept. 18; and “Gulls, Ravens and a Vulture: The Ornithological Paintings of James Wyeth,” will be featured through Oct. 10, all at Farnsworth Art Museum, 352 Main St. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $8/$5 596-6457

Southwest Harbor: An association of artists from Maine and beyond will be featured through Aug. 14 at Harbor House Green. Gallery hours: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 989-4655

Topsham: “Botanical Energies,” an exhibit of Jennifer Morrow Wilson’s vibrant collages, will be featured through July 31 at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St. 721-0678

Waldoboro: “Tapestry in Maine,” a juried exhibition showcasing the technique of tapestry, will be featured through July 31; and “Handmade Carpets: Art Meets Function,” will be featured Aug. 4 through Sept. 18, both at Old Point Comford Gallery. 832-8133

Warren: Works by Guy Hughes, Gisela-Heidi Strunck and Dudley Zopp will be featured through July 31 at the Coppershed Gallery, 288 Vaughn’s Neck Road. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment or chance. 273-3477

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 ARoute Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m. 872-3549

Wiscasset: “Group Show: Two Painters and a Sculptor,” will be featured through Aug. 14, 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

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