Portland, Maine - SPEEDWELL projects is proud to present 10,000+ Hours, an exhibition that celebrates our mission to correct the canon and create greater visibility for artists who have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to their practice. SPEEDWELL projects takes great pride in supporting the fine artwork of women, LGTBQ+, and artists of color who are master practitioners of their discipline. We are excited to offer this work to promote awareness and ensure the longevity of SPEEDWELL projects. 10,000+ Hours is SPEEDWELL projects, inaugural fundraiser and exhibition is an opportunity to purchase masterful work, or make a donation to support this important mission. Artists include: Elise Ansel, Greta Bank, Barbara Bosworth, Sarah Bouchard, Lucy Breslin, Crystal Cawley, Sara Crisp, Paul D'Amato, Grace DeGennaro, Michel Droge, Eileen Gillespie, Emmet Gowin, Tonee Harbert, Anne Harris, Anna Hepler, Adriane Herman, Charlie Hewitt, Alison Hildreth, Juliet Karelsen, Deborah Klotz, Jocelyn Lee, Winky Lewis, Honour Mack, Amanda Marchand, George Mason, Jan Piribeck, Kari Radasch, Abby Shahn, Kiki Smith, Patti Smith, Gail Spaien, Aaron T. Stephan, Cheryle St. Onge, Barbara Sullivan, Andrea Sulzer, Katarina Weslien, Shoshannah White, Diana Weymar, Henry Wolyniec, Francesca Woodman and Julie Poitras Santos Please note that the gallery is open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 12 - 6 PM. The show is happening from November 21- December 7, 2019.

Portland, Maine - SPEEDWELL projects is proud to present 10,000+ Hours, an exhibition that celebrates our mission to correct the canon and create greater visibility for artists who have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to their practice. SPEEDWELL projects takes great pride in supporting the fine artwork of women, LGTBQ+, and artists of color who are master practitioners of their discipline. We are excited to offer this work to promote awareness and ensure the longevity of SPEEDWELL projects. 10,000+ Hours is SPEEDWELL projects’ inaugural fundraiser and exhibition. It is also an opportunity to purchase masterful work, or make a donation to support this important mission. Artists include: Elise Ansel, Greta Bank, Barbara Bosworth, Sarah Bouchard, Lucy Breslin, Crystal Cawley, Sara Crisp, Paul D'Amato, Grace DeGennaro, Michel Droge, Eileen Gillespie, Emmet Gowin, Tonee Harbert, Anne Harris, Anna Hepler, Adriane Herman, Charlie Hewitt, Alison Hildreth, Juliet Karelsen, Deborah Klotz, Jocelyn Lee, Winky Lewis, Honour Mack, Amanda Marchand, George Mason, Jan Piribeck, Kari Radasch, Abby Shahn, Kiki Smith, Patti Smith, Gail Spaien, Aaron T. Stephan, Cheryle St. Onge, Barbara Sullivan, Andrea Sulzer, Katarina Weslien, Shoshannah White, Diana Weymar, Henry Wolyniec, Francesca Woodman and Julie Poitras Santos.

Barbara Morgan (1900-1992) was a pioneering figure in American photography known for her dynamic images of modern dance, experiments in photomontage, and gestural light drawings. Throughout her career, Morgan worked to visualize the “inner meanings” of her subjects. Her photographs capture fundamental elements of both photography and life – light and motion. Raised in southern California, Morgan studied and taught painting and became interested in gesture and movement. She carried this fascination into her photography, determined to record what she called the world’s “rhythmic vitality.” Image: Barbara Morgan (United States, 1900-1992), Wild Bee Honeycomb Skyscraper (detail), 1973 photomontage, 19 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches Gift of Paul B. Ford 1984.340

443 Congress Street Gallery in the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce will be exhibiting the merriest of “Captivating Fearless Vibrations: Through Color and Texture,” a Holiday show with 10% off select artists’ works. This large group show ends December 28th. You don’t want to miss plein air paintings by Charles Thompson, wood assemblages by Andre Benoit, and abstract paintings by Alex Rheault, plus 20 additional talented Maine artists. Konbit Sante will be there too with gifts to purchase. Stop in, enjoy some refreshments, and celebrate this holiday season with our fine artists.

DesignInquiry: Futurespective On View: October 4 - December 14, 2019 First Friday Events: + Not the Holiday Sale: DesignInquiry will be selling artist zines, folios, whoopie-pie legislation dish towels, Futurespective bags, bread & poodle aprons, posters, postcards, sterling lobster rings — all designed and produced by the DesignInquiry universe of designers and artists in limited editions in conjunction with the ICA exhibition DesignInquiry: Futurespective. Proceeds will support DesignInquiry residency scholarships. + o t i t o (a palindrome): a performative dance piece from Sondra Graff & Petra van Noort DesignInquiry: Futurespective is a series of installations that demonstrate how DesignInquiry engages in open-ended extra-disciplinary exchange. On display in the galleries are multi-media installations of objects + projects that present the experience of DesignInquiry as a real-time gathering and explore their collective practice of thinking and making.

Featuring the pottery of Elizabeth Louden, Robbi Portela, Susan Horowitz, Rebecca Verill, Barbara Walch, David Orser, Cathy Schroeder Hammond, Neal and Barbara Loken, Nancy Button, Betsy Levine, and Chris Peck.

Not only will the Union of Maine Visual Artists help local artists sell their wares this December First Friday, Dec. 6th, Saturday, Dec. 7th, and Saturday Dec. 14th... but an unusual selfie opportunity will raise funds for the non-profit arts organization, as well as ILAP- Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project- which offers pro bono legal services for immigrants. The Dada Art Santa Selfie Project offers the chance to take a selfie with the artist-crafted, physical metaphor for the compassionate part of ourselves with the $10 donation being split by both UMVA & ILAP. The holiday sale event opens at 5 pm on First Friday and goes to 8 pm. Saturday hours are 10 am to 5 pm. The event is free and open to the public. The UMVA Gallery is located within the Portland Media Center, 516 Congress St in Portland’s Arts District. Who is this Dada Art Santa? They differ from the traditional Santa Claus in that they are not gender specific and they are asking people for donations to have their picture taken which will be donated to two nonprofit groups in Portland. Traditional Santas want to hear what you want for the holidays, while the Dada Art Santa want you to take a selfie and make a donation. Dada Art Santa Selfie Project creator, Ann Tracy says it was the horror of seeing news reports of refugee families and children forced into internment camps at the southern border that made her think of the rise of the Dada art movement at the end of WW1, which in turn led her to the concept of the "Dada Art Santa" Installation and Photo Booth Project for the UMVA December show. The Dada Art Santa Selfie Project installation will be located in the front window of Portland Media Center. Tracy will be there to either use the person’s phone or take a polaroid photo of them with the Dada Art Santa.

Grant Wahlquist Gallery is pleased to announce I’ll Be Your Mirror, Karen Lederer’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will run from November 16, 2019 through January 11, 2020. A conversation with the artist will occur on Saturday, November 16 at 4 pm, with a reception following until 7 pm. Please note that the gallery will be closed November 27 – 30 and December 25 – January 4 for holiday breaks. I’ll Be Your Mirror continues Lederer’s exploration of the legacy of Modernist painting in our digital present and represents a significant expansion of its formal vocabulary, styles of mark making, and art historical references. The printed gradients and bold colors of her prior works persist, but now are joined by moments of delicate, fluid, painterly brush strokes. The deceptive picture planes of Matisse and Picasso also remain, yet many paintings embrace a realistic, three-dimensional perspective. Not content to merely riff on or pay homage to these forerunners, Lederer gathers them together in a critical embrace, resulting in paintings whose accessibility and initial cheerfulness yield to an ambiguous rumination on living, making, and loving in a moment of political upheaval and social transformation. As in her first exhibition at the gallery, a number of paintings in I’ll Be Your Mirror portray ceramics based on works by Picasso, though the faces of the owls and people on these vases and bowls are cryptic, perhaps even concerned, and some are circled by bees. Their combination of cheer and subdued disquiet takes another form in Life with Picasso, in which a bottle of Campari, a glass, a plate of watermelon, and a copy of Françoise Gilot’s memoir of her years as Picasso’s mistress rest on a patterned and striped tablecloth. Gilot was more than Picasso’s mistress, of course; an artist in her own right, Picasso actively damaged her career after they separated, at which point she continued to work as an artist and critic nonetheless. It’s clear in view of the number of her paintings referencing his work that Lederer admires Picasso the artist, but Life with Picasso acknowledges the complicated nature of this admiration in view of Picasso the man. Matisse also returns in I’ll Be Your Mirror. In Ali, a young woman in an exquisitely painted blouse sporting an “I Voted!” sticker sits below a poster of Matisse’s The Thousand and One Nights. Matisse’s work is mostly out of frame, but the text at its upper right describes the moments in its titular story when Scheherazade falls silent mid-tale to induce the king to let her live for another night and finish it (they later marry). Creativity, survival, democracy, the responsibilities of citizenship—all are present in Lederer’s paintings if you know where and how to look. This is, perhaps, to say that Lederer’s still lifes, portraits, and domestic scenes are not merely domestic. (Why, when a woman paints her circle and her home is the work often called domestic or “diaristic” when the same work by a man wouldn’t be?) Though unpretentious, they are formally complicated, sophisticated depictions of one young artist dealing with the weight of art history as she seeks to make a home in a world that as a general matter is hostile, and that Lederer knows such pictures need not be self-serious or glum is one aspect of her talent. It also aligns her with another forebear in I’ll Be Your Mirror, Mary Cassatt, two of whose prints (The Coiffure and La Toilette) are referenced in two of Lederer’s paintings. In The Coiffure and La Toilette, the women pictured do their hair and wash their faces respectively, both in front of mirrors. These images are both the most literal manifestation of I’ll Be Your Mirror’s title but also introduce a theme of doubling that unites many of its paintings to varying degrees. They also introduce the notion of self-care, which despite its polluted use in contemporary discourse can be, as Foucault reminds us, an ethical and creative imperative. In Eli, the artist’s husband holds a bouquet of flowers in front of a tangle of branches, both rendered with punchy, graphic flatness. In October, he reclines on a couch covered with a multi-colored toile upholstered couch featuring flowers painted in a style recalling Les Nabis and reads a copy of China Miéville’s book on the Russian revolution. If the Eli of Eli faces the artist (and by extension us, the public) in October he has turned away, but in that private moment is nonetheless also opening himself up to history, to the political. Flowers bloom in many ways in I’ll Be Your Mirror, and their beauty is more pronounced by virtue of being moments of ordered delight in a complicated world. The interplay of self and other, interior and exterior, intimacy and politics—this is the real subject of Lederer’s paintings. Karen Lederer received a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2008, and an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her first solo exhibition at Grant Wahlquist Gallery was reviewed in Art New England, the Boston Globe, and the Portland Press Herald. She has also had solo exhibitions at Tennis Elbow at the Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, and Field Projects, New York, amongst others. Her work as been presented in group exhibitions at venues including: Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; Danese/Corey, New York; Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn; Bravin Lee, New York; Equity Gallery, New York; the Lower East Side Printshop, New York; and Anya Tish Gallery, Houston. Lederer has received fellowships, awards, and residencies from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York; the Lowest East Printshop; the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program; and New American Paintings. The gallery is located at 30 City Center, Portland, Maine. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment. For more information, visit http://grantwahlquist.com, call 207.245.5732, or email info@grantwahlquist.com.

Visit the Maine Historical Society Exhibit Galleries and Museum Store for the the December First Friday Art Walk! MHS features changing exhibitions and programs spanning more than twelve centuries of Maine life. Drawing from the extensive collections of the Maine Historical Society, original exhibits feature art, artifacts, stories, and documents that vividly bring Maine history to life. The exhibit "Holding Up the Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art" explores Wabanaki philosophies of leadership and obligation relating to humans and non-humans over 13,000 years in what is now known as Maine. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanaki people and immigrants to their region through 17th century colonial treaties, photographs, and contemporary artworks—everything from ash baskets to haute couture fashion. You can even start you holiday shopping while you visit! With something for everyone, the MHS museum store offers unique books and gifts related to Maine. We hope you enjoy our unique selection of Maine–inspired merchandise, often created from the archives and collections of Maine Historical Society!

A one-person show featuring the works of legendary Portland artist Zoo Cain, who creates colorful, kaleidoscopic pieces in a variety of formats. Marketing business Trueline will host First Friday events at its new home at the former Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Wine and snacks on tap.

Come check out Fork Food Lab and hear what it is all about! Tours with our GM on the half hour. We're doing this Open House as one of our 12 Days of Christmas events, see the full list of events here: https://www.forkfoodlab.com/12-days-of-christmas

Prints of Illustrations by Steve “Stivo” Zittel of Salt & Soil capturing the whimsical side of outdoor pursuits and life in Maine.

Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery invites you to join us for an art opening with new works by Sandra Leinonen Dunn. Please join us for Wine and Cheese on First Friday December 6 from 5:00 - 8:00. This exhibit runs through January 28. Sandra Leinonen Dunn, one of our most popular Maine artists, has brought us new oil paintings just in time for your holiday shopping. She is very prolific, reasonably priced, and paints many different subjects such as still life, scenery, maritime, and even figurative works. You’re sure to find something special that appeals to you. She is drawn to an old world style that gives her paintings a deep rich feeling that will pull you in and speak to your soul. Dunn has a determined brushstroke that carries motion and spontaneity into her work. With these bold strokes, she layers colors, overlapping them in a playful way that keeps you exploring the magic she produces on canvas. Bright bold colors atop moody neutral tones makes them pop right out at you. Her work is both quiet and stunning. Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery is truly Uniting the World Through Art. Our Studio Exhibit is showcasing a two-person show featuring Janet Sutherland and Mike Dorsey. Both were winners in recent juried exhibitions held at the gallery. Known for their soft scenic vistas with focus on aspects of light, both artists capture strong compositions that will grab your attention. Don’t miss this opportunity to visit with the artists. Come meet our three spotlighted artists on December 6! Are you looking to redecorate your home? We’re your one stop where you will find spectacular paintings that will turn any room into a stunning focus of your home. We’re happy to work with you to help you select just the right painting for you. Color Workshop by Susan Roux - January 10, 11, 12 from 9:30-4, $250 This workshop focuses on learning to use color creatively. Do you fear color? Is your work trapped in local color? Color is emotion and learning to use it to your advantage can transform your paintings. Please call for more information. Slots are filling up quickly. 207-576-7787. Portrait/Figurative Workshop with Susan Roux - March 13, 14, 15 from 9:30-4:00, $250 For those of you wishing to paint portraits or the full figure, this is your opportunity to learn from the artist who paints figures regularly. Learn to how to capture the subtleties that really help convey the special qualities of your model. Attention to proportions, detail, and values will also be prominent teaching points during this workshop. Space is limited so sign up early! 207-576-7787 Don Hatfield Workshop Napa Valley Artist returns this summer Don’t miss your chance to learn from a master. July 24, 25, 26 from 9:30-4:00 $350 California artist and Susan Roux’s mentor will be in Maine to teach an oil painting workshop. This is the workshop of the summer to take! It is an incredible opportunity to be taught by such a great artist. He works with students individually and targets the next step that they’re missing in theire painting progression. He focuses on fundamentals and will elevate your end results if you follow what he offers for suggestions. Space is limited so sign up early! Commissioned portraits by Susan Roux: Roux is accepting portrait commissions at this time. Come in or call with your questions. Gallery Services Framing: We are happy to inform you that we will now be offering framing for your convenience. Get the helpful eye of an artist to put just the right frame on all your framing needs. We’re happy to work with you. Art Concierge: We help you create beautiful spaces in your home or business, which captures the look and feel you desire, by bringing art directly into your space so you can view it with your own lighting and your own unique surroundings. Come ask about this unique boutique service. Oil Painting Classes: Offering a range of classes from beginner through advance. For more information, please contact the gallery. Art Immersion: Come spend a week in the gallery painting with instructions from Susan Roux. It’s a great way to jump back into art if you’ve wandered away from it or improve the skills you continue to develop. Please join us for our special exhibits along with works of 35 artists from 10 different countries. We look forward to seeing you soon! Creatively, Susan Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery 48 Free Street Portland, ME 04101 207-576-7787 www.rouxandcyrgallery.com

Biography: Ellen O'Donnell grew up in Maine with a strong interest in art and the ocean. She began painting with her mom as soon as she could hold a brush. Painting became an invaluable creative outlet that keeps her centered. She also loves the ocean from sailing in the summers with her family. Ellen went to Maryland Institute College of Art for a year before returning home and attending Maine Maritime Academy. She joined the Merchant Marine and eventually achieved her Master’s License. It proved to be a good fit, allowing for both passions of art and the ocean. She currently resides in Portland, Maine, and paints full-time. She finds inspiration in Maine’s beautiful coast, woods, and mountains. Artist Statement: I find inspiration in the beauty of nature. I spend a lot of time adventuring with my dog Kai. We love escaping to the woods and playing at the beach! Maine is so abundant in its rich texture of the rocky coastline, and the never-ending spectrum of color of the woods. This series of paintings captures the essence of those moments. Whether it is the way the light dances on the trees or the way the rocks carve into the water, I’m captivated. I want to capture my love of nature and share it through my paintings.