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Saturday, June 05, 2010 – Monday, September 06, 2010 Winslow Homer Exhibition at the Museum of Art
In honor of the centennial of Winslow Homer's death, this exhibition will showcase the Museum's collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Featuring approximately 20 works, it will be the first time since 1988 that all of these works will be on view in the Charles Shipman Payson building. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the second floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 – Sunday, September 12, 2010 Paper Works Exhibition at the Museum of Art
This exhibit, titled ''American Moderns: Masterworks on Paper from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1910-1960'' will showcase more than 100 works on paper from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., by nationally recognized artists such as Edward Hopper, John Marin, and Rockwell Kent. This is the first in-depth examination and presentation of the Atheneum's American modernist works on paper. This is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see paintings by Edward Hopper depicting scenes of Maine in the state. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, log on to http://www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/4603.shtml or contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
Monday, June 28, 2010 – Friday, August 27, 2010 Summer Day Camp and Preschool
This summer day camp at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, just off Route 1 in Falmouth, is for children ages 2 to 11, and features one and two week weekday sessions with different nature-related themes, as well as hikes, stories, songs, movement, group games, natural crafts, and more. Children explore and learn in forests, meadows, salt marshes, and ponds. Session times and prices vary. Scholarships are available. For more information or to register, call 781-2330, ext. 209.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 – Sunday, October 17, 2010 Anna Hepler Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
Contemporary Maine artist Anna Hepler will construct a monumental installation inside the Museum's Great Hall. Made from a nest-like mesh of salvaged and sewn sheet plastic, this exhibit will take advantage of the Museum's expansive entry space. A second exhibition of Hepler's work, on view in the fourth floor gallery, will feature a series of cyanotype prints (or blue prints) made from digital photographs of small sculptures and, like her large installations, these works are defined by light. This will be Hepler's first solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
Monday, August 02, 2010 – Monday, August 02, 2010 Lake Region NAMI
The first Monday of each month the Lake Region NAMI Group meets at the
Raymond Public Safety Bldg.
This is on Rt. 302 and the northwest end of Main Street or Rt 121,
Raymond. Time is 7 to 8:30 pm. Support
is available for those dealing with a family member coping with mental
illness.
Come join us. For information call Eileen @ 655-4193
Tuesday, August 03, 2010 – Tuesday, August 03, 2010 Grief Support Meeting
Windham – Monthly Grief Support Meetings for 2010
VNA Home Health & Hospice is offering monthly open grief support meetings
in Windham on the first Tuesday of the month from 6:00 – 7:30 PM
beginning June 1, 2010 and ending December 7, 2010.
When: First Tuesday of the month from 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Where: North Windham Union Church
723 Roosevelt Trail, Rt. 302, Windham, ME
For more information call Linda Hopkins, Bereavement Support Coordinator for VNA Home Health & Hospice at 400-8714 or e-mail Linda at hopkinsl@vnahomehealth.org
This group is sponsored by the North Windham Union Church UCC Mission Committee.
Monday, August 16, 2010 – Friday, August 20, 2010 Summer Day Camp
This camp, for ages 6 to 12, features nature exploration, play, and learning through hands-on and minds-on activities in small groups to increase children's awareness of and connection to nature at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, just off Route 1 in Falmouth. Weekday sessions are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 781-2330 for more information.
Thursday, August 19, 2010 – Thursday, August 19, 2010 Electronic Data Risk: Records, Privacy, Liability
Saint Joseph’s College will present a daylong workshop titled Electronic Data Risk: Records, Privacy, Liability and Investigations on Thursday, August 19. The program is ideal for certified public accountants, certified financial planners, attorneys, banking and finance professionals, human resources executives, insurance brokers and other professionals who need to meet CPE or CLE requirements for licensure.
Benjamin Wright, an attorney practicing computer security and e-commercial law in Dallas, will present the workshop. Topics include e-discovery in lawsuits and investigations; e-record retention policy; data privacy; electronic investigations, online banking risks for small- and mid-sized enterprises; and electronic contracts and warnings.
Wright has delivered more than 600 presentations on the law of e-commerce, records management, privacy and computer security. He has been quoted in publications around the globe, from the Wall Street Journal to the Sydney Morning Herald. Wright is the author of several information technology law books, including Business Law & Computer Security.
The workshop runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Viola George Auditorium in Alfond Hall at the Standish campus. The workshop offers eight hours of CPE/CLE, which includes one hour of ethics. The cost is $279 and includes lunch. Visit http://online.sjcme.edu/edr or call 800-752-4723 for more information.
Saturday, September 18, 2010 – Sunday, December 12, 2010 John Haberle Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
John Haberle is considered one of the most accomplished American trompe l'oeil, or ''fool the eye'' painters and this exhibition will feature approximately 20 paintings and drawings from the New Britain Museum of American Art. Alluding to the moral and political issues of the time, Haberle's paintings juxtaposes newspaper clippings, tickets, and money with objects such as a pocket watch, playing cards, and rosary beads. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the second floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
Thursday, September 30, 2010 – Sunday, December 05, 2010 ''Group f/64'' Photography Exhibit
This exhibition, titled ''Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64'', focuses on the small group of 1930s California photographers who called themselves ''Group f/64.'' They challenged the painterly, soft-focus Pictorialist style of the day and this exhibit includes images by photographers in this group such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard Van Dyke, as well as images by such Pictorialists such as Anne Brigman, William Dassonville, Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Karl Struss. With more than 100 works by 16 artists, this exhibit offers a feast for the eyes while illustrating both sides of a high-stakes debate. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, log on to http://www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/4573.shtml or contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 – Sunday, March 20, 2011 Painting Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art
This is the first major survey of paintings by the MacArthur award-winning artist Rackstraw Downes. Featuring more than 30 works, many of them multiple-part canvases, the exhibition features his minutely detailed paintings of exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American land and urbanscape from 1972 to 2008. The exhibition traces the artist's career through major examples of his work that were painted in Maine, Texas, New Jersey, and New York, including two haunting depictions of the untenanted interior spaces in the World Trade Center in 1998. This exhibition will be located at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, downtown Portland, and will be held on the first floor of the museum. For more information, contact Kristen Levesque at klevesque@portlandmuseum.org.
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