Tuesday’s setting sun casts a shadow from the Lewiston sculpture in the parking lot at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston.
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Acclaimed artist Robert Indiana dies at his Maine island home at 89
Robert Indiana, the sign painter from the Midwest who moved to New York and became a celebrated pop artist before departing for the deep isolation of his overstuffed Vinalhaven home, died in that island home Saturday. He was 89. His attorney, James Brannan of Rockland, said Indiana died of respiratory failure. Indiana, best known for […]
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Renowned artist plans sculpture in downtown Lewiston
PORTLAND — Charlie Hewitt finds inspiration for his artwork in the simplest of images. Doodles. “These doodles are how I come up with ideas,” Hewitt said last week at his Portland studio, showing a pad filled with hundreds of tiny, colorful sketches. “From such a lowly spot, it’s not hard for me to end up […]
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UMF art students sculpt beaver dam
FARMINGTON — Weaving sticks and litter around small logs and patting in a little mud, art students created a large sculpture of a beaver dam in Abbott Park at the University of Maine at Farmington. The university’s mascot is a beaver. The three students worked quickly Thursday, preparing the art piece before their instructor, assistant […]
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Warmer weather graces Saturday’s Ice Festival of Lewiston/Auburn
LEWISTON — The appearance of the sun was both good news and bad news on Saturday — good because roughly 1,200 people were expected at the Ice Festival of Lewiston/Auburn; bad because direct sunlight is the worst thing for the 24 ice sculptures that dotted Fountain Park between DaVinci’s Eatery and TD Bank in the […]