Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates!, one of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations and a key driver in making the city a vibrant destination in central Maine, has named Buffy Higgins, director of patient access at the MaineGeneral Medical Center, to the Waterville Creates! board of directors as of June 26. As a valued member…
Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates! and Common Street Arts are moving their administrative and programming operations from The Center building to the Hathaway Creative Center beginning August 20th. The move is part of the long-term plan to redevelop the building at 93 Main Street as the recently announced Downtown Arts Center. While a construction date…
Exhibition Runs from August 1 – September 8, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 2nd from 4:00 – 6:00 pm Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, in partnership with members of the Waterville Area Art Society, the Harlow Gallery, Common Street Arts and the Wesserunsett Arts Council, will host Ebb…
Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present River Stories Day, a day of celebrating the Kennebec River through art, culture, storytelling, and community. On Thursday, July 26 at Common Street Arts from 11:00am – 6:00pm, artist Maggie Libby invites you to interact with her public art…
Volume 6 of this popular companion exhibition to the Maine International Film Festival brings back the popular digital projections and visual artistry of Brazil’s VJ Suave WATERVILLE, MAINE — This year the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) will pull back the curtain of the cinematic experience with an all-ages, interactive art exhibition exploring the world…
Waterville, Maine —  Waterville Creates!, one of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations and a key driver in making the city a vibrant arts and cultural destination in central Maine, has been selected to sponsor EmcArts’ Arts in Complex Community Change program in Waterville. The series provides unique capacity-building support for arts organizations and their…
May 30 – June 30, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Prints at the Scale of People, an exhibition of printmaking that explores oversized examples of the medium. On view at Common Street Arts from May 30 – June 30, 2018. An opening reception…
Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates!, one of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations and a key driver in making the city a vibrant destination in central Maine, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town program to undertake, in partnership with the City of Waterville, Colby College,…
Waterville, Maine — The Waterville Creates! Public Art Task Group announces three new temporary public art exhibitions to be on view from June through September in the City of Waterville. Three artists, Maggie Libby, Lisa Link, and Jesse Salisbury, were selected to provide works based on their responses to a public call for artists’ reflections…
Presented by Common Street Arts April 11 – May 19, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Side by Side: new work by cassie jones + will sears, an exhibition celebrating the work of two contemporary Maine artists at Common Street Arts from April 11…
Waterville, Maine —Â Colby College and Waterville Creates! have announced plans to transform a historical downtown building into a new center for contemporary art and film, making Waterville a singular destination for the arts in Maine. The project, which includes a significant fundraising effort, features new and renovated space at 93 Main Street to support…
YAM Exhibition Presented by Common Street Arts February 28 – March 31, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Youth Art Month (YAM), an exhibition celebrating our community’s youngest painters, illustrators and sculptors at Common Street Arts from February 28 – March 31, 2018. This…