Past Exhibitions

2024

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine Fine Art & Photography Show

February 2 – 23, 2024

An annual exhibit to highlight the many talented artists at all nine of the BGCSM clubhouse locations.

The art on displaywas made from members aged 5-18 years old. Local judges decided which pieces moved on to compete at the National level through Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In addition to visual art, there will be several performances by members who have been exploring songwriting and production

Miraculous Bodies by The Art Department

January 5 – 18, 2024

Group show featuring a joyous collection of collaborative paintings by the artists at The Art Department. Taking inspiration from the Surrealist movement’s game Cadavre Exquis (exquisite corpse), each of TAD’s artists imagined fantastical creatures and brought them to life on canvas. Each of the artists created an original body using photos, sketches, and their imagination and painted a head, torso, and lower portion of the body.

2023

MSA Teaching & Studio Artist Exhibit

November 2 – December 17, 2023

Participating artists included Leslie Anderson, Josie Colt, Quinn Evans, Lovers Fight Tonight, Elliot Nye, Maggie Muth, and Kathryn Price. All the artists have held an MSA Artist Studio, or have taught during our Summer Youth Program.

*detail from Dirt Circus, Mixed Media, 9 x 9 ” 2023*

Peter Wallis’ Mythic and Quotidian

September 1 – October 26, 2023

Using a visual language of theater, abandoned buildings, combined with figurines, dance, and skeletons, Peter Wallis creates the architecture of memory and dreams.

The Unfinished Art Project

May 6 – June 25, 2023

Juried exhibition of art that is incomplete and/or unpolished based on the artist’s definition, in an effort to bring awareness to the impact of mental health on the creative process. The exhibition intends to showcase unfinished work as a means of talking about barriers to productivity and breaking down stigmas of laziness that are often associated with mental health. Featured artists: Audrey D. Brokos, Dr. Florence S. Edwards DDS, Rabee Kiwan, Mark McMeeken, and Keegan Whitford.

Produced in collaboration with the Maine Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Miniatures Exhibit

March 3 – April 28, 2023

Group show featuring small-scale work of more than 20 local artists: Amanda Petrozzini, Amanda Saker, The Art Department (Abbott P., Tyler W., Mike L., Brenda S., & Destiny L.), Bevin Holmberg, Bess Welden, Bridget McAlanon, Caroline James, Jesse Wendleken, Jill Dalton, Jill Osgood, Justin Fell, Kellie Ryan, Kris Lape, Kyle T. Randall, Louise Packness, Mike Libby, Robin Carlson, and Savanna Sullivan.

2022

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MSA Teaching & Studio Artist Exhibit

December 2, 2022 – January 29, 2023

Group show celebrating the visual artists who animate Mayo Street Arts, featuring Leslie Anderson, Julia Baugh, Brooke Bolduc (Art by Buff Cat), Crystal Cawley, Quinn Evans, Roberta March, Maggie Muth, Kathryn Price, & Eamon White.

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October 8 – November 18, 2022

Group show featuring the work of local artists Amelia Garretson-Persans, Ashley Page, Justine Henry & Lin Snow

Selected Work from Rich Entel’s Cardboard Menagerie

August 23 – September 25, 2022

Kifah Abudulla ::: Art – Arabic Calligraphy – And Me

April 1 – May 16, 2022

2021

Mayo Street Arts Pop-Up Gallery: Patt Franklin Paintings
April 1 – 24, 2021
MSA Pop-Up Gallery at 67 Washington Ave., Portland (former Nissen Bakery Building)
Curated by June Fitzpatrick

MSA Pop-Up Gallery: Noriko Sakanishi and William Manning
February 5 – March 20, 2021
Mayo Street Arts Pop-Up Gallery at 67 Washington Ave., Portland, ME
Curated by June Fitzpatrick

Mayo Street Arts Pop-Up Gallery: January Show
January 1 – 29, 2021
MSA Pop-Up Gallery, 67 Washington Ave., Portland (former Nissen Bakery Building)
Featuring artists Michel Droge, Christopher Patch, Shannon Rankin, Justin Richel, and Richard Wilson
Curated by June Fitzpatrick