The Maine Print Project will take place through March 2007 in 25 museums, galleries and college campuses statewide. For more information, visit www.maineprintproject.org. Starting in September, “The Imprint of Place” ($35, Down East Books) will be available at the exhibition sites, in Maine bookstores, and online at www.downeastbooks.com. The following is a guide to each exhibit:
. Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston: “Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print … The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006,” Oct. 27, 2006-March 18, 2007, 786-6158, www.bates.edu/museum.xml.
. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (on view at Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport due to renovations on the Brunswick campus), “Vinalhaven Press Prints,” Oct. 21-Dec. 16.
. Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, “Maine Printmakers, 1980-2005,” Oct. 21-Dec. 16, 236-2875 or www.cmcanow.org.
. Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, “Contemporary Maine Monotypes,” Oct. 6-Dec. 16, 442-8455, www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, “Alex Katz: Woodcuts and Linocuts,” Oct. 12, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007, 859-5600, www.colby.edu/museum
. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, “Works from August Heckscher’s Printing Office at High Loft,” Nov. 1, 2006-Jan. 4, 2007, 288-5015, www.coa.edu/html/blumgallery.htm.
. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, “Imprints of Maine: 1900-1950, Sept. 24, 2006-March 24, 2007; “Jonathan Fisher: Pioneer Printer and Printmaker,” Oct. 15, 2006-May 15, 2007, 596-6457, www.farnsworthmuseum.org.
. Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, “Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies/MECA Prints,” Nov. 22, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007, 879-5742, www.meca.edu.
. L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, “Impressions of Nature,” through Oct. 15, 238-4250, www.gwh.org/museum/museum.htm.
. Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, “Contemporary Printmaking in Maine,” Oct. 26-Nov. 19, 882-7511, www.maineartgallery.org.
. Maine Historical Society, Portland, “Early Printmaking in Maine,” Sept. 1-Dec. 31, 774-1822, www.mainehistory.org
. Ogunquit Museum of American Art, “The Prints of Peggy Bacon,” through Oct. 31, 646-4909, www.ogunquitmuseum.org.
. Old York Historical Society, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, “Scott Schnepf: Etchings and Woodblock Prints,” Sept. 17-Oct. 29, 351-1083, www.georgemarshallstoregallery.org.
. Portland Museum of Art, “A Century of Maine Prints: 1880s-1980s,” Sept. 9-Dec. 10, 775-6148, www.portlandmuseum.org.
. River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, “The Art of Printmaking,” Oct. 13-Nov. 28, 967-9120, www.rivertreearts.org.
. Round Top Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, “Lee Nesler: Recent Prints,” Oct. 6-Nov. 3, 563-1507, www.roundtoparts.org.
. Space Gallery, Portland, “Arts Formally Known as Prints,” Sept. 8-Oct. 28, 828-5600, www.space538.org.
. The Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, “A Flurry of Prints: Printmaking in the 1920s and 1930s on Maine’s Eastern Coast,” Sept. 8-Nov. 5, 853-4047, www.tidesinstitute.org.
. University of Maine at Augusta Art Gallery, “Innovative Techniques/Alternative Surfaces in Printmaking,” Nov. 9-Dec. 15, 621-3000, www.uma.edu.
. University of Maine at Machias Art Gallery, “The Prints and Book of Claire Van Vliet,” Oct. 6-Dec. 8, 255-1200, www.umm.maine.edu.
. University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, “Richard Estes: Prints,” and “John Marin: A Print Survey,” Oct. 20, 2006-Jan. 13, 2007, 561-3350, www.umma.umaine.edu.
. University of Maine Department of Art Gallery, Orono, “The Art of Printed Books and Artists’ Multiples,” Oct. 6-Nov. 17, 581-3245, www.umaine.edu/art.
. University of Maine at Presque Isle, Reed Art Gallery, “Prints from Peregrine Press,” Oct. 22-Nov. 22, 768-9400, www.umpi.maine.edu.
. University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, “John Muench: A Retrospective,” Sept. 19-Nov. 19, 221-4499, www.une.edu/artgallery.
. University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, “Calendar Months and Other Printed Matter,” Oct. 19-Dec. 19, 780-5008, www.usm.maine.edu/gallery.
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