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Follow the travels of the Maine Print Project

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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