Made in Chases Garage

Art

After a winter’s worth of work, the gallery at Chases Garage in York, Maine, reveals unexpected connections among its artists. Although each studio is very different, common themes emerge when spaces and ideas are shared. Those themes are on display as the gallery kicks off its summer season with a new exhibit.

Planning stages

Art, News

When it comes to marketing itself as a destination, Portsmouth is one of the best, according to Scott Ruffner. It’s “up there with any city...

Art to the rescue

Art

Todd Bonita's new gallery in Portsmouth opens with a benefit exhibit that's bringing the Seacoast arts community together.

Leap year

Art

The ArtPM Challenge encourages everyone to make a piece of art during the month of February, and this year, participants put their heart into it.

Truth and beauty

Art

Discovering Edmund Tarbell’s local history and living legacy Edmund Tarbell was studying the old masters in Paris when the new movement of Impressionism caught his...

Where the music is

Music, Art

Bob Nilson has always been drawing. The 83-year-old Portsmouth artist says the joke in his family was that he was “born with an in-grown pencil.”...

Lost neighborhood

Art, News

Jim Splaine remembers the first time he saw his father cry. It was July 11, 1966, a Monday night, and Splaine and his family were...

Larger than life

Art

It’s not apparent, at first, that the artist walked on the painting or that he encouraged people to throw things at it. The first thing...

On the mark

Art

Portsmouth is a city of dichotomies. Art-Speak board member Duncan Craig recently described it as follows: “One of the great things about Portsmouth is this...

One on one

Art

Back in 2003, Seacoast photographer Roger Goun began taking photos at presidential campaign events. It was standard stuff, Goun says — photos of candidates at...

Making change

Art

Posters are accessible and ubiquitous, more likely seen in a dorm room or alleyway than in an art gallery. But therein lies the potential. An...

Welcome home

Art

Mainers Orson Horchler’s street art is short-lived, but not shortsighted. His latest project, called “Mainers,” is a series of portraits featuring a diverse group of...

Getting crafty

Art

by Beth LaMontagne Hall It was about seven years ago when Portsmouth jewelry maker Megan Stelzer and Dover artist Jocelyn Toffic came up with the...

Area art exhibits

Art

DOVER Gallery 6 “Out of This World” contains fanciful creatures in playful settings and promises to take viewers on journeys to strange worlds, on view...

Find your element

Art

If it’s the thought that counts, then the handmade, local gift has got to count for more, since it considers the whole community. This small...

Found in translation

Art

As a child, Shiao-Ping Wang learned to write hundreds of complicated Chinese characters, each one representing a word, rather than a sound. A native of...

Heart and art

Art

For Anna Nuttall, it takes a community to make art — and arts education — truly effective. It’s an idea Nuttall has put into practice...

Artstream moves to Rollinsford

Art

Artstream is relocating from Dover to a new space in Rollinsford on Oct. 26. “It’s really perfect for what we want to do,” said Susan...

Art exhibits

Art

Above: View from Hosmer Boathouse by Tom Glover, on display at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine. Art Exhibits DOVER Artstream “Five Friends”...

Uncharted lands

Art

Bear Kirkpatrick defines his imagery as evidence. He looks for proof of the invisible, rejected memories and forgotten histories, nameless inherited traits, even signs of...

Of the moment

Books, Art

Jeremy Miranda is known for paintings that merge views from indoor and out, landscape and architecture, memory and the moment. But recently, he has just...

Less is more

Art

With its relative affordability and accessibility, Nahcotta’s “Enormous Tiny Art” show has turned many art lovers into art collectors over the years. More than 40...