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Gallery Reception: 11/3/23 (5:30-7:30pm)
Show Run: 11/3/23 to 12/30/23
Multiple Artists
CCAC will host a unique exhibition called “Six Artists,” featuring the works of six exceptionally talented artists. Explore their stunning collection of works. It's an event that art enthusiasts and collectors alike won't want to miss!
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Cost: $75/person
Limit: 10 participants
Location: Chocolate Church Arts Center Gallery
Registered participants will receive an email regarding supplies and other details.
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
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Moving Ice, World On Pause
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
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Gallery Reception: June 8 (5:30-7:30pm)
Show Run: 6/02/23 to 8/12/23
Artist: Lisa Goren
Lisa Goren was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she has dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains.
CCAC will host an open house event with the artists. The event will take place partly outdoors, with light refreshments served. The event is free to attend, but guests must register in advance to get tickets for the open house event only.
Gallery Reception: April 1 (3-5pm)
Show Run: 4/01/23 to 5/27/23
Artist: Brian Killeen
Brian Killeen is a painter living in Portland, Maine. His oil paintings capture the airy feeling of the land and sea, as well as the geometry of city life and interior spaces. His recent work deals with the desire to break free, to escape into the vacationland of Maine.
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Gallery Reception: December 2nd (5:30-7:30pm)
Show Run: 12/02/22 to 1/28/23
At each turning of the new year we take the occasion to fill our gallery with the artwork of CCAC members of all ages and experience levels. It is the perfect opportunity to see what is engaging the hearts and minds and paintbrushes of our members.
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Show Run: 10/06/22 to 11/27/22
Cathy Fussell has been a practicing fiber artist for more than 50 years. She has been sewing and working with textiles since her early childhood in Buena Vista, Georgia, her hometown. Today, she maintains a studio in Columbus, Georgia, where she specializes in making art quilts and related works in fabric. Fussell’s art is held in a number of public collections.
As a native of Rhode Island (known as the “Ocean State”) the vastness of the sea has always been a prominent source of inspiration for Deborah Forman. Other influences include Euclidian geometry, architectural drawings, and traditional quilting. She is interested in the contrast of illusionistic space simultaneously existing with flatness. The imagery is open to multiple interpretations; forms can describe a sky, a diagram, a syncopated beat, a pathway or a horizon.
Show Run: 8/09/22 to 10/01/22
James Macdonald, an artist, luthier, and musician based in Burnham, Maine, builds electric solid body guitars featuring hand cut marquetry art. Using a combination of handwork and machines very similar to the methods used in the 1950s, he is creating guitars that preserve the best of the past, while using the instrument as a canvas to create narrative based artwork using thin wood veneers from around the world as his palette.
Show Run: 6/09/22 to 7/30/22
Guest Curated by: Breehan James
‘Summer Breeze’ brings together paintings and drawings that delight in the hazy tranquility of summer.
Exhibiting Artists: Kris Benedict, Stephen Benenson, Jana Benitez, Jill Grimes, Sarah Faragher, Hilary Irons, Breehan James, Emily Lanctot, Colin Page, Richard Raiselis, Jenna Ransom, Richard Ryan, Giordanne Salley, Marc Schepens, Suzannah Sinclair, Barbara Sullivan.
Show Run: 10/8/21 to 11/20/21
Artists: Jennifer Goldfinger and Kathryn Geismar
This show discusses memory and identity using oils and mixed media. This pairing of artists is a powerful presentation that promises to provoke thought and emotion.
Show Run: 7/2/21 to 8/7/21
The moment of pause between high and low tide when the water is without current or stress. We have all been experiencing the pandemic in different ways. But now that our part of the world is beginning to reopen, we are noting that we want to pause and reflect before being caught up in the current of our lives. We have had an opportunity to examine and evaluate our values relating to racial justice, the environment, the need for spiritual retreat and recovery, among other things. We are planning to be more deliberate in our decisions going forward. And we hope this show gives you a space for reflection, similar to the space that can be found on a long walk along the beach.
Show Run: 5/28/21 to 6/26/21
An exhibition juxtaposing minimalism and fullness through painting and photography. Recent works by Maryjane Johnston and Tanja Kunz.
Show Run: 4/2/21 to 5/15/21
The Chocolate Church Arts Center Gallery is pleased to welcome Kathleen Buchanan, Berri Kramer, Karina Steele, and Susan Wilder for a A Congregation of Birds.
For this show, each artist has used a different medium to explore birds as a theme in their work. The show features encaustic (a painting technique in which pigments are mixed with hot liquid wax), linocut (in which designs are cut into a linoleum surface), mobiles, and other mediums.
Show Run: 2/26/21 to 3/29/21
The Chocolate Church Arts Center Gallery is pleased to welcome the Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans for their second annual exhibit. In the Guild's 17th year, they continue their mission of promoting excellence in art with a collective of artists producing an impressive spectrum of work: painting, fine art photography, fiber arts, woodworking, ceramics, stained glass, and jewelry.
Show Run:
November 21st through January 6th
From Home in Bunny Slippers: Creations from a Community in the Weirdest Year Ever is a gallery show that accompanies the book of the same name. The book is a collection of creative work compiled by the Chocolate Church Arts Center that reflects the ways in which communities across Maine (and friends from away) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges of 2020, and found catharsis through the act of creation.
Show Run: October 16th through November 18th
The Chocolate Church Arts Gallery presents Hunting Positive, an exhibition of writers and visual artists discussing the difficult times we are currently surviving. Fifteen powerful women’s voices will be assembled in a show featuring works on paper, installations, sculpture, and painting alongside essays and poetry.
Show Run: September 25th 28th through October 14th
There won’t be an in-person gallery opening event, but we will be doing online video content with Elaine via Facebook. Follow us on Facebook for more information.
Artists: Ross Alan Bachelder and David Matson
Show Run: July 10th through August 20th
There won’t be an in-person gallery opening event, but we will be doing online video content with Elaine via Facebook. Follow us on Facebook for more information.
Maine Moments is a collection of artwork by local Bath artist, Elaine Hranich. Elaine, the youngest of six children, grew up living in the small coastal community of Toms River, New Jersey and spent much time outdoors as a child. She lived in central New Jersey surrounded by beautiful farm land for 20 years before moving and settling in Maine over a decade ago.
Show Run: February 28th – March 31st
OPENING: February 28th at 5PM
The Bowdoinham Guild of Artisans is a collection of practicing artists and artisans who live and work in the Bowdoinham area. Their mission is to support and encourage Bowdoinham artisans by providing a means for them to collaborate, exhibit, and sell their work and to foster the value of art and hand crafted works.
Show Run: January 23rd – February 26th
Come enjoy the artwork created by The Chocolate Church Member artists. Artwork is a variety of mediums and available for purchase from the show.
Show Run: January 3rd – January 14th
A compliment to Resurgence Dance Company’s original production, Happy Folk Commune. The Gallery is open during performances of this contemporary ballet on Friday and Saturday night as well as Sunday afternoon.
Show Run: November 22nd – January 2nd
Points of View Artists is a diverse group of greater Brunswick area artists who work together to foster an environment of mutual support, artistic development, and lifelong learning.
Show Run: October 18th – November 13th
Papier mache sculpture and painted folk art pieces under the name Bumblepuppy Folk Art. Co-founder of Fuego Diablo Arts Studio. Award-winning photographer and a writer when she runs low on paints and canvases.
Show Run: September 13th – October 9th
Encaustic artist and jewelry maker Anne Strout, abstractionist Denis Boudreau, abstract and figurative artist Roland Salazar Rose, and author, artist and musician Ross Alan Bachelder.
Show Run: August 16th – September 11th
Maine-based artists Shelly Elmer, Jennifer Pope, and Betty Heselton
“Painting plein air offers a great sense of adventure and exploration. Discovering new places and rediscovering familiar ones with the luxury of time (as painting requires) is one of the most satisfying moments of life. When these paintings get worked deeply into my psyche I can then morph them into something more fantastical or abstract and in that way can keep a theme evolving into something new and exciting again. Working with different paint mediums, surfaces, and sizes is a way to capture the feeling I am seeking to communicate and allows for a greater sense of play and surprise.”
—Shelly Elmer
Show Run: July 19th – August 14th
Multiple Artist Mixed Media Show
For 29 years the Sebascodegan Artists have been a gallery in the Old Orr's Island church in Harpswell. This year they are taking their gallery on a "road show", displaying their art in places throughout mid-coast Maine. The artists are a successful group due to their cooperative spirit and energy, and produce high quality work that they would love for you to come and see. Their work includes their watercolors, oils, acrylics, pastels and pottery.
Mixed Media Show by Resurgence Dance Company’s new full-length contemporary ballet
Opening Reception: June 14th from 5pm to 7pm
Show Run: June 14th through July 12th
This tandem mixed media gallery showing brings applied arts, dance, photography and performance together. Featuring the work of photographer Dave Mention, and the Resurgence Dance Company.
Artist: Michael Branca
Opening Reception: April 12th from 5pm to 7pm
Show Run: April 12th and runs through May 31st Extended until MAY 31st due to popularity!
Michael’s media and subject matter range from fantastical oil paintings to plein air landscapes to conceptual assemblages.
Artist: Renuka O’Connell
Opening Reception: March 15th from 5pm to 7pm
Show Run: March 15th and runs through April 10th
Come join in the conversation, share your hopes, wishes and prayers for our water, air, and the earth.
Our annual member art show features the works of the Chocolate Church Arts Center’s artist-members. The works include: Paintings, Photography, Wood Sculpture and more. Join us in the Gallery for our opening night gala! All submissions are available for purchase.
A Four Year Study & Visual Narrative. This is an Interactive exhibit with Encaustic and Acrylic Paintings, Photographs, Topo-maps, Guides and a Discovery Table.
The Pastel Society of Maine was established in 1999 and promotes public awareness of pastels and creates a network for local and regional pastel artists.
Summer Exhibit Ceramic Art Show featuring original work by four artists who create from the Judson Studio in Bath.
This engaging collection of work created by women in response to the sensational #metoo movement is a powerful statement of the times, and premiered in Boston to rave reviews.
Members of the Chocolate Church Arts Center feature their artistic work in our art gallery. Visit the art gallery to experience just how talented our members are!
Milena Banks paints scenes around Bath—from old houses, recumbent dogs, and the sea, to still lives and farm animals.
Members of the Chocolate Church Arts Center feature their artistic work in our art gallery. Visit the art gallery to experience just how talented our members are!
Three local Maine artists, Ernest “Bev” Bevilacqua, Susan Gilbert, and Elaine Reed, will be displaying their work at a new gallery exhibition.
A diverse art exhibition of paintings by students in the Evelyn Dunphy Studio & Workshop Classes was juried by Anne Zill, director of the Art Gallery of the University of New England.
This spring tradition highlights the best from senior students from Hyde School and from Morse High School. This show is designed to so students experience curating a show and preparing for an exhibit.
This annual exhibit highlighted the creative work of local artists such as Sandra Johnson, Robert Copeland, Peggy Kapisovsky, Felicity Sidewell, Melanie Willey, Debra Ater, Jessica Arsenault, Amy Puleo, Rick Christenson, Robert S. Howe, Cory Gardiner, Wayne Robbins, Kathy Harris.
Show Run: August 28th through September 23rd
There won’t be an in-person gallery opening event, but we will be doing online video content with Elaine via Facebook. Follow us on Facebook for more information.
Wanda Fern McNeil has deep New England roots and a deep love for all-things-wildlife. She can often be found exploring hiking trails or kayaking the lakes, rivers, and coastal waters of Maine accompanied by her camera. What began as a personal pastime has grown into “Lucky Fern Photography”, where her passion for nature is reflected in her art. Wanda’s wish is to capture and share the beauty of nature, one amazing moment at a time.