Maine Art Collective First Thursday Open House

December 2023 brings first Thursday on the 7th!

Visit Maine Art Collective at 157 Middle Street between 5 -7 pm for Meet and Greet the Artists, refreshments including nibbles, cookies, and drinks.

Check out the wide variety of Art, Photography and Cards and before you leave stop by The Holiday Card Table to make a couple of Holiday Cards. Stamps, Paints, Fabric, Glue, Markers, Paper, Envelopes and more are free to use to Create a Personalized Holiday Card.

Welcome to our journey into Art in Maine. The colors, mists and light of Maine have inspired generations of artists and continues to create aspiring artists. This blog is simply dedicated to the artists that I am currently working with at the Maine Art Collective in Portland, Maine. Artists will be introduced individually in each blog featuring their current work and a bit about how that came to be.

As Artists we are all fascinated by color and light and this plays out in a wide variety of mediums, from pen and ink, colored pencils, pastels, photography, digital photography manipulation, papercutting, watercolors, acrylics, acid dyes, oils, fiber artists and more. Often the artists works in a variety of mediums and in some instances, in a variety of mediums within one expression. In the Maine Art Collective we see many of these options as well as a wide variety of expressions, from realistic, expressionistic, abstract, collage, and always something we have not considered before.

Organized by Sue Vittner in 2021, the Maine Art Collective began its first popup on Exchange Street and in 2022 reemerged at 157 Middle Street in the Arts District of the Old Port of Portland, Maine. 2023 brings twenty one artists, twenty visual and one fiber, back to pop up again at the same location.

The Artists of the Maine Art Collective are:

• Sue Vitner
• Marsha Campbell
• Dianne Chioine
• Lisa Clement
• Jerry Copan
• Jeffrey Danford
• Jo Eaton
• Robert Paulette
• Michael Garnett
• Lucille Holt-Sottery
• Amy Kelly
• JoyannaMayo
• Jim O’Reilly
• Lee Thomspon
• Julia Waters
• Jennifer Pope
• Laurie Russo-Smith
• Leslie Silk-Champagne
• Marci Spier

Maine Art Collective First Thursday Open House

December 2023 brings first Thursday on the 7th!

Visit Maine Art Collective at 157 Middle Street between 5 -7 pm for Meet and Greet the Artists, refreshments including nibbles, cookies, and drinks.

Check out the wide variety of Art, Photography and Cards and before you leave stop by The Holiday Card Table to make a couple of Holiday Cards. Stamps, Paints, Fabric, Glue, Markers, Paper, Envelopes and more are free to use to Create a Personalized Holiday Card.