exhibitions
CSA presents a selection of exhibitions each year that incorporates local, regional, established, and emerging artists as part of gallery and event programming. This arrangement of exhibitions allows for a broad representation of artists and media throughout the state of Maine and beyond. Community representatives serve on an Advisory Committee designed to shape and create programming that is relevant and accessible for all community members and continually seek proposals for ideas on a wide array of exhibition related programming.
returnings is the result of artist and woodcarver, Doug Frati's, 20 years of gathering and repurposing dilapidated beds. As a woodcarver, Doug Frati has amassed a wide range of antique headboards and found them to be a rich source of carving material. These wood turnings or bedposts have been accumulating in his barn for years.…
In all its various forms and configurations, Juliet Karelsen's work cross-references painting, stitching, tapestry, rug making, embroidery, abstract art, fantasy, landscape, textile, miniature worlds, and even science - from botany to mycology to planetary and solar - touching on the micro and macro scales. Though there’s nothing political about actual nature, tragically, nature as a…
Join Common Street Arts as we celebrate the work of our Common Street Arts clay members together with Maine potters in the exhibition, CSA Clay! on view in the CSA gallery from January 13 through February 15, 2020. All work in the exhibition is for sale. This is a great opportunity to support Maine artists…
The Youth Art Month (YAM) exhibition honors our amazing art teachers in Central Maine while celebrating the work of aspiring young artists. This year’s yam theme is a journey through art and each Saturday CSA will host a series of free programs that explore the themes of travel, culture, and human creativity. This is the…
Join Central Maine's young artists and their families for this year’s Youth Art Month exhibition. Now in its 6th year at Common Street Arts, this exhibition showcases artwork from aspiring area artists around this year's theme of a Journey through Art. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
MAPS (Maine-Aomori Printmaking Society) is an exhibition of prints by artists from Maine and Aomori, Japan, presented by Friends of Aomori, the non-profit organization that supports the Sister City relationship between the two states. MAPS is a multi-tiered exchange project developed to share prints, exhibitions, and artist residencies between Maine and Aomori on an ongoing…
As human-induced climate change continues to evolve, the associated impacts on the Earth’s ecosystems are unfolding before our eyes in real-time. To hold a mirror to some of the destructive human behaviors that contribute to this widespread undoing of the planet, artist Ian Trask will present a large-scale installation made entirely from reimagined consumer waste.…
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October 2019
doug frati: returnings
October 1, 2019 - Tue. Mar 31
intersection 2.0 @ 93 main
December 2019
juliet karelsen: heptagonal winter
December 28, 2019 - Wed. Mar 18
intersection 2.0 @ 93 main
January 2020
csa clay!
Mon. Jan 13 - Sat. Feb 15
Sterrs Gallery, Common Street Arts
March 2020
yam: youth art month
Mon. Mar 2 - Sat. Mar 28
Sterrs Gallery, Common Street Arts
opening reception: yam
Thu. Mar 5
Sterrs Gallery, Common Street Arts
April 2020
maps: maine aomori printmaking society
Mon. Apr 13 - Thu. Jul 2
common street arts
July 2020
unEarth: installation by ian trask
Mon. Jul 27 - Sat. Nov 7
common street arts