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X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - portland-me BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:OMAA Conversations: Gordon Wilkins DTSTART:20260909T210000Z DTEND:20260909T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:18282-1788973200-1788973200@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:arts,education DESCRIPTION:OMAA Conversations: Gordon Wilkins \nWednesday\, September 9t h\, 5:00 PM at OMAA\nJoin us for an OMAA Conversation with Gordon Wilkins on Wednesday\, September 9th at 5pm. This event will take place at the Mus eum and is free and open to the public. We welcome you to arrive at 5 pm to find your seats and enjoy the galleries\; the presentation will begin a t 5:30 pm.  \nConstructing The Maine Idea: Nativism\, Modernism\, and the Fascist Aesthetic in Interwar Maine\nThis talk will explore the complex n exus of regionalism\, fascism\, tourism\, authenticity\, and racialization that characterized the depiction of Maine and its people in both high and low sources of modern interwar visual culture ranging from the work of Ma rsden Hartley and Marguerite Zorach to tourist brochures and postcards. \n Gordon Wilkins is the Robert M. Walker Curator of American Art at the Addi son Gallery of American Art\, Phillips Academy\, Andover\, MA. Wilkins ove rsees the care\, exhibition\, and growth of the Addison’s world-renowned collection of American art across media with a particular focus on the ar t of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to reserve your free tickets. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/gwilkins2026/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Permanent Collection Lecture: Dr. Devon Zimmerman DTSTART:20260916T210000Z DTEND:20260916T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:18298-1789578000-1789585200@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Permanent Collection Lecture with Dr. D evon Zimmerman\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ogunquit Mu seum of American Art. This event will take place at the Museum on Septembe r 16\, 5pm\, and is free and open to the public. We welcome you to arrive at 5 pm to find your seats and enjoy the galleries\; the presentation will begin at 5:30 pm.  \nDr. Zimmerman will lead OMAA’s second annual Perm anent Collection Lecture\, focusing on the Museum’s recent Alexander Cal der acquisition\, El Ojo Que Sueño. The lecture will place Calder’s mo bile in dialogue with other works in OMAA’s permanent collection\, which has long traced the evolution of American modernism through artists conne cted to Ogunquit and beyond. El Ojo Que Sueño expands this narrative an d highlights the international networks that shaped American art in the tw entieth century. \nDr. Devon Zimmerman is Curator of Modern and Contempor ary Art at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art\, where his research focuse s on the transatlantic networks that shaped modernism in art and design. P reviously\, he held positions at the Museum of Modern Art\, Metropolitan M useum of Art\, and Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, and had cur ated exhibitions including Deconstructing Power: W.E.B. Du Bois at the 19 00 World’s Fair\, Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression\, and Nicole W ittenberg: A Sailboat in the Moonlight.  \nClick here to reserve your fre e tickets. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/pcl2026/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Shane Charles - Site-based activation DTSTART:20260917T190000Z DTEND:20260917T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:18205-1789657200-1789664400@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Shane Charles – Site-based activation\nThursday\, September 17\, 3pm – 5pm \nA site-based activation within an engineered sculptural system built from timber\, oxidized steel\, and machined joinery. Breath\ , moisture\, and pressure operate as material methods: contact transfers r esidue\, corrosion advances\, and the surface records what occurs in real time. Time reads as a physical interface—irreversibility and emergence c arried forward through touch\, weight\, and chemical change. \n\nClick her e to register.\n\n \nSHANE CHARLES is a sculptor working across Maine\, B oston\, New York\, and internationally—engineering installations from Ea stern Woodlands–sourced timber\, oxidized body-print on steel\, hand-cas t metal\, and machined hardware—works in which contact is not image\; pr essure not metaphor\; but consequence. Surface meets surface. Load to cons traint. Breath into substrate. The body registers into steel as real trans fer\; and does not reverse. In this practice\, the body is material histor y\; somatic memory is physical—experience as mortality witnessed. Archit ectural framing and performative activation operate as a single horizon sy stem: condition with contact is form. Touch is the context in which the in ert past faces potential—emergence carried forward by irreversibility. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/shane-charles-site-based-activation/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rachel Gloria Adams -  Quilted Vase Workshop DTSTART:20260924T140000Z DTEND:20260924T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:18208-1790244000-1790251200@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Rachel Gloria Adams –  Quilted Vase Workshop\nThursday\, Se ptember 24\, 10am – 12pm \nWe love an upcycle moment. Learn to transform a glass bottle into a one of a kind quilted vessel. We will hand stitch f abric to create improv quilt vases.  \n\nClick here to register.\n\n \nR ACHEL GLORIA ADAMS is a multidisciplinary artist living in Portland\, ME. Adams has developed a vibrant\, graphic pattern-based visual language fill ed with references to the natural world and motherhood that possesses an h eirloom quality. Her work takes form through quilting\, painting\, design and murals. She moved to Maine in 2005 to pursue her BFA from the Maine Co llege of Art and Design. She has exhibited artwork at the Portland Museum of Art\, Space Gallery\, Center for Maine Contemporary Art and Dowling Wal sh. Her work has been acquired by the Portland Museum of Art and the Farns worth Museum. She has attended residencies at Speedwell and Pace House and is an Indigo Arts Alliance David C. Driscoll Fellow. In addition to her s tudio practice\, Adams has been commissioned to create murals for several institutions including the Children’s Museum of Portland\, the Farnswort h Museum\, and the Worcester Art Museum. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/rachel-gloria-adams-quilted-vase-work shop/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Free First Friday DTSTART:20261002T210000Z DTEND:20261003T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:18310-1790960400-1790971200@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:arts,music DESCRIPTION:Join us for Free First Fridays at OMAA! The museum will stay o pen late on the First Friday of every month\, and will be offering free ad mission to all visitors between 5pm and 8pm. Come enjoy the museum until 8 :00pm! \nSpecial for July 3rd and October 2nd\, from 5:30-6:30pm\, you can enjoy a live performance by UNH Music students\, The Lion Sisters. \n2026 Free First Fridays: \n\nMay 1\, 5-8pm\nJune 5\, 5-8pm\nJuly 3\, 5-8pm – Live music 5:30 – 6:30pm\nAugust 7\, 5-8pm\nSeptember 4\, 5-8pm\nOctobe r 2\, 5-8pm – Live music 5:30 – 6:30pm LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/free-first-friday-2026-10/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:OMAA Conversations: Donna Cassidy DTSTART:20261006T210000Z DTEND:20261006T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:17964-1791306000-1791313200@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:arts,education DESCRIPTION:OMAA Conversations: Donna Cassidy \nTuesday\, October 6th\, 5 :00 PM at OMAA\nJoin us for OMAA Conversations with Donna Cassidy on Tuesd ay\, October 6th at 5pm. This event will take place at the Museum and is f ree and open to the public. We welcome you to arrive at 5 pm to find your seats and enjoy the galleries\; the presentation will begin at 5:30 pm.  \nCarl Sprinchorn’s Worlds: New York\, Sweden\, Maine: Carl Sprinchorn w as always on the move. His travels took him to diverse locales across Nort h American and Europe as he sought new experiences and new ways of artmaki ng. This lecture will look at how three of those “worlds”—New York\, Sweden\, Maine—shaped his art. Sprinchorn was not a mere tourist passin g through these places but was grounded in their art and culture—in Robe rt Henri’s realism and the spectacle of the modern city\; in Scandinavia n painting\, naturism\, and mysticism\; and in Maine and its regionalism. \n\n\n\n\nClick here to reserve your free tickets. \n  \n\n\n\n\nDonna M. Cassidy\, Professor Emerita\, University of Southern Maine\, has publishe d widely on modernism and regionalism in early twentieth-century American art and culture\, most notably with her books Painting the Musical City: J azz and Cultural Identity in American Art\, 1910-1940 (1997) and Marsden H artley: Race\, Region\, and Nation (2005). She was also co-author with Eli zabeth Finch and Randall R. Griffey of Marsden Hartley’s Maine (2017)\, the catalogue of the exhibition which she co-curated at Colby College Muse um of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently\, she has cura ted two exhibitions at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art—Shifting Sand s: Beaches\, Bathers\, and Modern Maine Art (2023) and Carl Sprinchorn: “All the World Is a Painting” (2026). She is currently working on the forthcoming exhibition Layered Terrain: Art\, Land\, and Environment in Ea stern Canada\, 1890-1940 at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2027-28). LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/dcassidy2026/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:OMAA Closes for 2026 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102 DTSTAMP:20260904T181935Z UID:17962-1793491200-1793577599@ogunquitmuseum.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:OMAA will close for the 2026 season on Sunday\, November 1. LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181935Z LOCATION:OMAA URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org/event/2026closing/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Ogunquit Museum of American Art X-SOURCE-URL:https://ogunquitmuseum.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR