The Maine Art Collective at 9 Moulton Street, Portland, Maine is sharing and celebrating love on a collaborative canvas open to both artists and visitors. Come be part of a community artwork celebrating love, creativity and connection. The “Share the Love” canvas welcomes visitors and artists in creating a celebration of Love for the whole month of February. Join us on First Friday for a Meet, Mingle and Paint. Paint your mark on a collaborative canvas Celebrating and Sharing Love, meet artists, mingle with artists and visitors and enjoy the refreshments.
Creative Portland’s First Friday February 6, 5-8 PM.
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The “Share the Love” community canvas will be on view and open for participation throughout February 2026 during winter gallery hours Thursday – Sunday 10am – 5pm. All are welcome to contribute.
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Sharing art, understanding art is grand, but even grander is putting your expression on our first collaborative art canvas, “Sharing the Love.” We invite you to “Share the Love” with us this February.
The Pop-U p goes year-round. After four years as a Pop-Up, the Maine Art Collective added a third location in 2025: 9 Moulton St, Portland, ME.
The Artist Run Maine Art Collective provides Art for All from Local Artists.
2026 brings you a gallery bursting with the varied expressions of twenty-eight local artists gracing the walls of 9 Moulton Street. At 9 Moulton Street, the Gallery is just steps off Commercial Street in Portland’s Old Port. Winter hours are Thursday – Sunday, 10-5.
Art in Maine encourages the growth of artists generating new work in a wide variety of media.
An Open House and Gathering of Artists from the three Maine Art Collective Galleries, Perkins Cove, Ogunquit; Middle Street and Moulton Street, Portland. Join us to meet the artists who are gathering to thank and celebrate our art community.
The January 11, 2026 12-2 PM
Maine Art Collective, 9 Moulton Street, Portland, ME
Coming from any direction, The Maine Art Collective on Moulton Street is just steps from Fore and Commercial Streets in the Heart of the Old Port.
Click Middle Street to hear form the Middle Street artists saying Thank you for a Great Year!
You’re invited! Come mingle with us at our first MAC Mingle at Moulton this Sunday, January 11, from 12–2pm. There will be refreshments, music, and plenty of MAC artists from all three galleries to meet and connect with.
We hope this note finds you well-rested, healthy, and enjoying a fresh start to the New Year.
Over the past few days, I’ve been working on our 2025 1099s, and it’s filled me with so much gratitude. Thanks to your support, MAC was able to help 56 local artists show and sell their work this past year. We truly couldn’t do this without you, and we’re deeply appreciative of the role you play in making our mission possible.
Our Middle Street location in Portland is now closed for the season. If the space is available, we’re hopeful to return with a pop-up gallery in May. In the meantime, we’re grateful to be working with our landlords to keep the storefront “activated,” so you can still enjoy a bit of window shopping—many artists currently have work displayed and available for purchase in the windows.
We’re also excited to share that five artists from our sister galleries have joined us for the winter season at our Moulton Street gallery. There’s lots of new artwork to see, and we hope you’ll stop in. Please note our winter hours at 9 Moulton Street are Thursday–Sunday, 10am–5pm.
With sincere thanks and warm wishes for the year ahead,
Free Greeting Card Workshop with Maine Art Collective October 3 and 4! Share Fall stories and make a card. Details Below.
The Maine Art Collective invites you to our First Friday, October 3, 5-8 PM, and Open Galleries, October 4 & 5, 10-6, as part of Maine Craft Weekend at 157 Middle Street and 9 Moulton Street in Portland. Join us for refreshments and meet and greet the Maine Art Collective Local Artists at both locations and then Check Out the Free Fall Greeting Card Workshop at 157 Middle Street.
Maine Art Collection’s 157 Middle Street location will be hosting a Free Fall Card Making Sessions on Friday from 5-8 and on Saturday as from 1-4 PM, as part of the Maine Craft Weekend. Share your favorite fall stories as we make free fall greeting cards together celebrating the wonderful colors of all. Paints, crayons, stencils, stamps, leaf rubbing and more. Sharing our stories in person and create your own note card to share with family and friends.
Welcoming Fall, Welcoming You, Sharing the Colors of Fall!
Artwork, Woodworking and Photography from the Fall Foliage Room at Maine Art Collective, 157 Middle Street, Portland, Maine. Other Fall colors throughout the gallery.
The Maine Art Collective (click to meet artists in all three galleries) welcomes visitors and art collectors at two Portland locations and one in Ogunquit:
Pop-Up at 157 Middle Street: A Welcome Preview (click to watch). The The MAC Community Room’s Theme for June is Blue, share your thoughts about blue and enjoy the blue artwork. Blue (click for Blue)
Permanent location at 9 Moulton Street: The Maine Art Collective is expanding again! 2025 brings more Emerging Maine Artists to the Portland Art Scene! MAC is expanding to a second permanent location at 9 Moulton Street just a few steps of Commercial Street in the Old Port.
Our third locations is a Pop-Up in Perkins Cove, Ogunquit which recently opened for the season with a robust crowd of art enthusiasts enchanted with revitalized original location in Perkins Cove with additional artists and delightful appetizers! The devastating storm in January of 2024 destroyed the gallery space and it has now been redone with the attention to creating an amazing artist’s showcase. Gallery walls expand with panels and walls for exhibiting, all delightful.
Maine Art Collective’s mission is to create spaces and opportunities for emerging artists to show and sell their work. We are run by artists in a collective model. Artists get to keep the majority of their profits, so we are able to keep artwork affordable for everyone.
Starfish native to the North Atlantic, browns, tans, orange and sometimes violet.
Thank you for stopping here and please join us at The Maine Art Collective!
When standing in front of the wall of Jerry’s photography, it doesn’t take long to realize that it fits in many categories:
Automobiles House Portraits
Interiors Wallpaper
Beyond the categories you find a certain questing, a seeking out of the little details about how things age. Jerry finds that there is a certain beauty in the pieces that seem to have been forgotten, they continue to age and a certain patina of life emerges that is visible and elegant. He reminisces about the Titanic being discovered in 1986, “There was something about the Titanic, the before and after of the beauty of it all, seeing the chandelers in the midst of all that chaos that touched him.”
It is that growing beauty of the afterlife of an automobile or house the draws him in, asking him to keep coming closer to learn about the details of what is happening as the car or home take on their own life of aging in the elements.
Classic cars have always attracted Jerry and he drives one now.
Again, he goes back to his basic premise in more detail, cars show us beautiful details then sometimes they end up lost, forgotten in the woods with nature taking overs. The aging of the car, alone in nature, brings about a different kind of beauty. It is a spiritual moment for him when he encounters a new lost car and unfolds the discovery process of its current state of classic aging. He finds those cars that we might get a glimpse of from a distance and brings them home to us.
In the process of capturing the spiritual in his work, Jerry seeks out the abandoned houses and homes in his travels. Sometimes they are on the byways he rambles on, other times, in new locations, he just starts asking. His deep interest in the exploration of a property is evident in his quest and portfolio, thus the leads follow. In his images you will find, the houses and the exploration as he moves deeper into studying the details of the house, first from the larger interior, anything that catches his eye, but then like the investigator he is, cracks, crevices and anything that was left behind becomes photographically documented.
The telling of the story doesn’t end there, how will it be presented to you, for your observation, for your connection to your memories – and it might be of something of the same age or a memory of when that was fresh and young.
For example, his fascination with wallpaper often triggers a memory of that same wallpaper in a grandmother’s or aunts home. Viewing that small photograph or even card brings back past treasured times. Jerry comments, “Wallpaper, in particular, takes people to a particular point in time. Everyone has a direct response to it.”
Jerry’s desire to capture and share the spirit and beauty of what’s been left to age on its own caused him to leave his architectural career of designing MRI rooms for hospitals to take a new career path of working at the Front Room in Portland with the assurance that he could have the flexibility to take considerable time off each year to pursue his photography passions with his life and travel partner and co-adventurer, Ryan Rush.
Art in Maine 