Waterville Creates and Ticonic Gallery are currently seeking vendor applications for the ninth annual Holiday Bazaar, which will be held from October 4, 2024–January 27, 2025 in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center at 93 Main Street in Waterville, Maine. The Ticonic Gallery is transformed into a marketplace filled with unique and distinctive gifts created…

Join us for the opening reception of At Play: Works by Tom Jessen Friday, May 24 from 4-7pm. Step into the creative world of artist Tom Jessen as he brings his piece Atsuko to life right before your eyes at Ticonic Gallery. Following the construction of Atsuko, visitors will be invited to become a part of the…

Join us for First Friday (5–7pm) to celebrate Together and the opening of its three exhibitions: Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing in the Ticonic Gallery; Together: Anecdotes and Inspirations throughout the Paul J. Schupf Art Center; and Together: Art for All, a community-wide exhibition in and around Waterville’s Main Street.  A Community Conversation with Together project leader Peter Bruun will take place…

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At the Paul J. Schupf Art Center: 5–7pm Opening Reception for Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing, Together: Anecdotes and Inspirations, and Together: Art for All Come enjoy refreshments at the opening night of the Together exhibitions located in the Ticonic Gallery, throughout the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, and in different downtown businesses. Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing…

How can we bring our own memories and experiences to our interpretation of art? How can queerness be a creative tool for observing and connecting with the world? Join us for a night of exploring queerness in art in the Colby Museum galleries. Participants will engage in facilitated discussions in the exhibition Alex Katz: Repetitions…

Esopus Magazine was an alternative arts publication that helped realize the visions of artists such as Jenny Holzer, Kerry James Marshall, and Marilyn Minter. Join Tod Lippy, the magazine’s founder, and Chris Young, its printer, in a conversation on the process behind creating a magazine that continually pushed the boundaries of what was possible in…

Join the fun at the Colby Museum’s Thursday Art Party, co-hosted by the Colby College Student Government Association. Get creative as you decorate your own mug inspired by art on view at the museum. Enjoy Grey December’s set in the lobby and hear the Colby 8 perform in the galleries. We’ve got refreshments covered, including…

Each Thursday at 12:30pm! Join us to spend thirty minutes with one work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. Art Break is grounded in the practice of slow looking, an educational approach that asks people to give patient, immersive attention to a work of art as a way to…

An open call exhibition representing a multitude of artworks sharing two common qualities: the art has been made in the Waterville area, and it broadly speaks to themes of living, working, and playing together in the region. Drawing on submissions from area public schools, colleges, arts groups, and individual artists, the exhibition will be placed…

Together: Anecdotes and Inspirations features dozens of works created in painting and drawing workshops led by Peter Bruun over the preceding several months. The exhibition includes art by participants from workshops hosted by Educare Central Maine, Greene Block & Studios, High Hopes Clubhouse, South End Teen Center, Thomas College, Waterville Area Soup Kitchen, Waterville Comprehensive…

Together: Hearing, Holding, Healing is an installation combining 27 paintings by Peter Bruun with an audio-collage created from voices of students attending the Waterville Alternative High School. Bruun’s assemblage of paintings serves as a metaphor for people relying on one another even in brokenness, with the accompanying audio-collage offering an arc of a story on…