More than twenty local female artists and craftswomen display high quality and beautifully handcrafted pottery, kaleidoscopes, fairies, handbags, glasswork, hand-woven clothing and accessories, home accents, stained glass, and sculptural ceramic art.

Peninsula Potters' tenth annual is a guild of both nationally recognized and emerging artists who have established studios on the Blue Hill Peninsula.This event features twenty potters in ten locations showing a wide range of styles using earthenware, stoneware, and fine porcelain clays. There will be kiln openings, demonstrations, new work, and guest artists.

The reception is open to the public and will give attendees the chance to meet this year’s Art in the Park artist Katherine Herard whose piece Ebb and Flow has been in place since the unveiling on May 11 and will be shown through October. The Gardiner Art in the Park program was established in 2005 to highlight local artists and to bring temporary sculpture to the parks in the Gardiner downtown.

Manhattan Short is not just one of the largest short film festivals in the world, it is the world’s first global film festival. For one week this fall, more than one hundred thousand people will gather in more than 250 cinemas and universities spanning six continents (North and South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa) for one purpose: to view and vote on the ten short films (eighteen minutes and under), which are finalists in this annual festival.

Experience Portland’s signature holiday decorations with holiday light sculptures by artist Pandora LaCasse.

Jamie Wyeth’s connection to Monhegan dates to the late 1950s, when he first went there with his father, and he has continued to paint there ever since. His connection to fellow artist Rockwell Kent goes back nearly as far. Early in his career Wyeth bought several pen and ink drawings by Kent used as the sources for his illustrations to Moby Dick, one of Kent’s most renowned book illustration projects. Subsequently, Wyeth bought several of Kent’s paintings from his first period on the island around 1907.

Camden, Maine, native Samantha Appleton displays photography from her time spent in Iraq throughout the war and as an official White House photographer during the Obama administration.

The period leading up to the Jewish New Year is a time of reflection and T’Shuvah; returning to one’s true self. Re-capturing youthful enthusiasm can be an elusive endeavor. Member potter Susan Horowitz has taken this time to reconnect with the wonder and awe of creating with clay which inspired her to become a potter in the first place. She has made covered jars, small bowls, drinking vessels, and pots outside her usual production line and color palette. This September, Maine Potters' Market will feature Horowitz’s beautifully handcrafted pieces.

The period leading up to the Jewish New Year is a time of reflection and T’Shuvah; returning to one’s true self. Re-capturing youthful enthusiasm can be an elusive endeavor. Member potter Susan Horowitz has taken this time to reconnect with the wonder and awe of creating with clay which inspired her to become a potter in the first place. She has made covered jars, small bowls, drinking vessels, and pots outside her usual production line and color palette. This September, Maine Potters' Market will feature Horowitz’s beautifully handcrafted pieces.

The period leading up to the Jewish New Year is a time of reflection and T’Shuvah; returning to one’s true self. Re-capturing youthful enthusiasm can be an elusive endeavor. Member potter Susan Horowitz has taken this time to reconnect with the wonder and awe of creating with clay which inspired her to become a potter in the first place. She has made covered jars, small bowls, drinking vessels, and pots outside her usual production line and color palette. This September, Maine Potters' Market will feature Horowitz’s beautifully handcrafted pieces.