Casco Bay Artisans

Opening Reception: Celebrating the Women of Casco Bay Artisans
2019-10-10 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Celebrating the Women of Casco Bay Artisans Exhibition
2019-10-10 - 2019-11-17 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Kim Radochia: Shimms Exhibition
2019-08-13 - 2019-09-30 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Fourth Annual Regional High School Art Show
2019-04-05 17:30 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Casco Bay Artisans 4th Annual Regional High School Art Show opens Friday, April 5th through Wednesday, April 10th. Curated and produced by two Portland High School Interns, Leo Fuller and Lucy Kilbreth, this show features work from 22+ students from over 10 schools.
Portland High School
Thornton Academy
Deering High School
Westbrook High School
Baxter Academy
Brunswick High School
Casco Bay High School
Portland Arts and Technology High School
North Yarmouth Academy
Scarborough High School
Greely High School
Biddeford High School

Artist Reception for Modern Intimacy: Contemporary Dating and Pop Art
2019-02-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Join Casco Bay Artisans as we kick off our 2019 season with a series of Pop Art paintings and interactive games examining how text culture has influenced dating and relationships. Using the color pallet of Good & Plenty candy, artist Jess Lauren brings us into a world of words painted on large panels, immersing the viewer in unwavering Huhs, Hahs, Umms, Okie Dokies, and Whatevers. These expertly hand painted canvases offer a peek into the modern world where communication is being continually mediated by screens, removing the nuances of facial expressions and vocal inflection and highlights the occasional absurdity of miscommunications. Jess Lauren’s style is influenced by iconic artists and social commentators Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger, Andy Warhol, and Betsy Tompkins. In addition to pop paintings, this tongue in cheek show includes a selfie booth for participants to create their own miscommunications and a reimagining of a classic game: Modern Intimacy twister. Join us just in time for Valentine’s season.

Art is Food | Food is Art II with Matt James of Standard Baking Co.
2018-12-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Art is Food | Food is Art II
Featuring Matt James of Standard Baking Co
Opening Reception Thursday, December 6th
5-8pm
Matt James, Casco Bay Artisans current Artist-in-Residence, is the owner of Portland’s famous Standard Baking Company and an oil painter in the style of the old masters. Utilizing an observational technique, working from life or a photograph, James takes time to ‘tune out’ and truly look at objects. Receiving his B.A. from Mass Art, his influences include: George Nick, Edwin Dickinson, Walter Murch, Mary Cassatt, & John Singer Sargent. On Thursday, December 6th beginning 5PM-8PM, Casco Bay Artisans (68 Commercial Street, The Maine Wharf) will host the opening reception for his exhibition featuring new paintings based on still lives of his baked goods in conjunction with the fine breads and pastries themselves. It will be the most delectable art event of the season!
Casco Bay Artisans’ Art is Food & Food is Art Artist-in-Residence program offers an artist in the food industry 24 hour access to the gallery to focus on their fine art work, culminating in a show opening the First Thursday in December and during the December First Friday Art Walk. Artists are encouraged to show their culinary work side by side with their art. This program is an effort to cross pollinate and showcase creatives working in two of Portland’s most visible industries: art and food.
Matt James
Untitled Still Life
Oil on Canvas
2018
Matt James
Untitled Still Life
Oil on Canvas
2018

Magical Thinking In The Woods
2018-10-18 17:00 - 20:00 | ME

Live Art Weekends at Casco Bay Artisans
2018-08-11 - 2018-08-12 | ME
Join Casco Bay Artisans this August as we celebrate living artists!
For the first two weekends of August we will be hosting live painting events featuring artists inside the gallery.
Saturday August 11th: Christina Davis 11:30am
Paul Brahms 5pm
Sunday August 12th: Paul Brahms 11am

Summer in Maine Art and Artists Exhibition
2018-07-12 17:00 - 20:00 | ME

3rd Annual Regional High School Art Show
2018-04-06 17:00 - 20:00 | ME

"Conversations In Paint" Shared Canvas Art Show - Diane Dahlke and Bonnie Spiegel, Opening Reception - March 1, 2018
2018-03-01 17:00 - 20:00 | ME

OPENING FOR YONG-MAN KWON
2017-10-06 17:00 - 20:00 | ME

EVENT: Come see the latest collection from Lee Johnson
2017-09-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Casco Bay Artisans’ gallery-goers can’t get enough of Lee Johnson’s unique, elegant, gestural figurative oils…so, here we go…opening Friday, Sept., 1st beginning 5PM-8PM…all welcome!

FIBERS ART AND FASHION
2017-05-05 17:00 - 2017-05-10 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Join Casco Bay Artisans, an eclectic fine art gallery located in Portland ME for – FIBERS – an Art Show Celebrating Wearable Art; Textile Wall Art; and related Oil Paintings, beginning Friday, May 5, 2017 from 5:00PM to 8:00PM. Fashion Designers will share their couture and collections.

EVENT: 2nd Annual Regional High School Art Show
2017-04-07 17:00 - 2017-04-13 17:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
The artwork of Portland Public Schools students will be among the creative work on display in April at the Second Annual Regional High School Art Show, hosted by Casco Bay Artisans.
The opening reception will take place at our gallery, located at 68 Commercial St., the Maine Wharf, on Friday, April 7, during the city’s First Friday Art Walk. The event will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The show, which runs through April 13, was organized and curated by students for students. Fifteen regional high schools are participating in the show, including Portland High School and the Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS)

Jonathan Eiten Event at Casco Bay Artisans
2017-02-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Jonathan Eiten, Contemporary Realist Oil Painter will be at Casco Bay Artisans for Portland’s First Friday Artwalk. The reception will take place from 5-8pm. Jonathan Eiten’s art will be featured at CBA until February 17th.

First Friday Art Walk - December 2016
2016-12-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
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"ART IS FOOD AND FOOD IS ART"
2016-12-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Casco Bay Artisans, 68 Commercial St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Portland, ME-based Watercolorist and Fine Dining Executive Pastry Chef, Susan Gauthier (owner, Buttercream) will showcase, for the first time, her edible watercolor cakes to match her actual watercolor paintings which will be hung on the gallery walls of Casco Bay Artisans. There will be six (6) edible watercolor cakes stationed on (6) six sculpture stands directly below six (6) matching watercolor paintings.
A true Renaissance Woman, Gauthier has teamed up with Casco Bay Artisans, an eclectic fine art gallery, to kick off CBA’s exciting new series – “ART IS FOOD AND FOOD IS ART” in this small American city (Portland, ME) where art and food are truly revered by locals and travelers alike from around the globe.
“Passion is the genesis of genius,” – Galileo Galilei, recalls Gauthier. “My two passions…painting and food finally decided to grow up and get married. What could be more stimulating to the five senses but to enjoy the beauty of your artwork….And lick the chocolate off your fingers afterwards,” says Gauthier, a Maine College of Art graduate. When Gauthier is not painting watercolors or inventing delicious desserts for Portland’s restaurant-goers, she will soon create her watercolor cakes for her company, Buttercream, at the new state of the art Community Kitchen, Fork Food Lab. “Fork Food Lab is an amazing opportunity for local chefs to have a fully furnished, licensed kitchen at their fingertips,” says Gauthier, and she is delighted to have the chance to be one of the first chefs to enjoy it.
On Friday, December 2, 2016, Gauthier’s watercolor paintings and watercolor cakes will be available for show and sale. The paintings will last a lifetime, and the cakes, if frozen, will last through the holiday season.
