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,
Paintings, Photography, Prints, Scarf, Hat, Notecards and more! Scroll down for some of the twenty-five items being raffled.
December 21, 2025 Maine Art Collective Open House 4-7 PM
Raffle Drawing at 6 PM
Ticket Sales Close: December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Maine Art Collection draws the winning tickets for their Raffle Fundraiser for Maine Needs, a statewide organization that provides assistance for all in need. Learn more here about Maine Needs.
Sampling of top Raffle items, total 25 painting, photographs, prints, hat, scarf, cards and gifts. First grouping is the viewing, second grouping contains details, Item, Artist, Medium, Size and Value.
Edge of Knowing, Sue Vittner, Photo on Canvas, @18 x 24”, $595
Keeping scrolling for details and values. Thanks for visiting.
Stonington Harbor, Marcia Feller, Giclee Print on Archival Paper, 15” x 15”. Needle Felted Heart Pin from Handspun Yarn, Jo Eaton, 2 1/2” x 2” Photo Four Notecard Group, Jim O’Reilly, $20Mini Maine Landscapes, Jen Pope, 3 “ x 3”, $45 each, Raffled individuallyOyster Mushroom Dance, Julia Van Daam, Photo print on Metal, 12” x 12”, $72High Tide in Squeaker Cove, Marsha Campbell, Acrylic on Canvas, 5” x 5” , $75Scarf: Lyocel & Cotton, Marcia Feller, 79″ x 28″, $105Stand Next to ME, Lisa Bard, Acrylic on Recycled Canvas, 12” x 16”, $57Somber Marsh, Janer Land, Archival Print, 9” x 12”, $60Waiting for Captain, Tony Paine, Photograph Salt Glazed Pottery Crab, Rebecca HillmanWildflowers, Tam Veillux, PrintCelebrating Fall, Jo Eaton, Crocheted Hat, $150Charn, Tam Veilleus, 1” x 2”, $20Just Ducky, Tony Paine, Polymer Clay, $20Screenshot
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.
Now he paints, and still takes a few photographs. The following paintings were done by Jim in the last two years.
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A life of observation led Jim to spend many childhood hours sketching at the dining room table. Those early watching and drawing sessions soon led to an interest in photography and by the age of 11, he had his hands on a SLR Minolta camera.
We skip forward many years while living by the sea in Maine’s largest city, Portland; his attention was captured by the excitement of living in this city by the sea. It’s often situations where we least know what is next that we find doors opening. Jim lives near Portland where artists, crafters and buskers are encouraged to set up a four foot table and sell their wares. Jim found himself matting photographs and joining Portland’s creative marketplace, anywhere in Portland! Selling his first matted print put his photography into the marketplace and his powers of observation have kept him there and led him to the world of oil painting.
If you have been captivated by the moon over the steeple on Franklin Street, you will find it again in one of Jim’s photos.
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Commerical Street is lined with docks, fine restaurants, funky restaurants, tour boats, shops of all sorts and a ferry terminal for the island ferries and for large cruise ships coming for a visit to our fair city. Nestled in the midst of all of this is a working harbor, fishing boats bringing in fresh fish and seafood, one dock away from large cruise ships in one direction, small marinas, and even yacht sales right next to the Lobster place on commercial st.
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In his own words:
I’m often told that I have a knack for composition. “You have an eye!” is a phrase I hear over and over. To some extent I think it’s just an innate ability although the ability has been nurtured in certain ways. From a very young age I’ve simply been an astute observer of my surroundings and landscapes in particular. I do a lot of staring and thinking about what I’m seeing. I do this because I find it beautiful and satisfying to take in.
I notice shape, contrast and color relationships. By understanding what I find beautiful in the scene, I then know what I want to include in my frame.
When I look through my viewfinder, I have a very natural ability to know when I’ve found a good composition. You have to understand that what you see through the camera, is your photograph.
When I first began photography, I paid little attention to aperture and shutter speed, allowing the built in light meter to guide my decisions. This freed me up to think only about composition. But what should be understood is that I wasn’t really “thinking” about composition but rather knowing what I liked when I saw it. Instead of taking five pictures of a scene, take 50. You may end up only liking the last two you took. Move around. zoom in and out, crouch down or lay down.
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In theory, my compositional ability might translate to my paintings as well. I still consider myself a beginner in the realm of oil painting and have plenty of room for improvement
For a chance to observe Jim’s observations, stop by The Maine Art Gallery, 157 Middle Street, Portland and at craft shows. Visit Jim online on Instagram, local art shows and sometimes at First Fridays by the Portland Art Museum.
Gallery Opening on June 7, 2024 from 5-7 PM Meet Julia and share in Refreshments, meet more of the MAC artists and check out what everyone has been working on this winter!
Julia joined the Maine Art Collective in 2024 at the 157 Middle Street, Portland, Maine location. Often working in Pen and Ink, Julia’s drawings and paintings, and occasionally a print, catch people’s attention with her whimsically eclectic images.
Originally drawing inspiration from the surrounding nature of the rural midwest, Julia spent her childhood running through grassy fields and gazing up at stars, or deep in the pages of a fantasy fiction novel. Viewing her art, she captivates your interest as you are drawn into the depth of her visions. After the image generally catches your interest, you look closer and are drawn deeper and deeper into her vision. Often times, it’s a journey away from the day to day reality. Such a fun excursion and your can take them home and travel into her images frequently.
She moved to the East Coast to pursue an Illustration and Fine Arts degree at the Art Institute of Boston and currently resides in the beautiful state of Maine. Now many of her images are reflecting her new home, here near out great North Atlantic Ocean.
Her work was featured in “Pop-Ups at the Press” in 2023 hosted by The Press Hotel in Portland. She was also invited as a local artist to take part in the “Flying Colors: Benefit Art Auction” at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine in 2024, where her piece “Print of Scarborough Marsh” was successfully auctioned.
Julia became a member artist of the Maine Art Collective in May of 2023. Last summer she was busy creating even when it was her turn to tend the gallery. With her sketchbook in hand, pen, ink and paper on the desk, talking about art did not slow down her work.
Julia is looking forward to another great year in the gallery for 2024! Come to Maine Art Collective, 157 Middle Street, Portland to see her new art.
Julia calls her business Shnurgle. “Shnurgle” : Defined loosely as a light-hearted, slightly goofy, always playful interaction of affection and joy. A word that originated between my sister and I growing up that encapsulates loving and hilarious incidents.
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