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Mayo Street Arts and a Rockport nonprofit team up on 'micro' grants for traditional arts
Laurie Schreiber August 20, 2025The Traditional Arts Network is a collaboration between Mayo Street Arts in Portland and Cultural Resources in Rockport.
Laurie Schreiber August 20, 2025
Colby College touts $2.5B boost to Maine’s economy
Tina Fischer Updated: August 18, 2025Investments and campus initiatives contributed more than $2.5 billion to Maine’s economy in the past six years, according to an independent study commissioned by the Waterville liberal arts college.
Tina Fischer Updated: August 18, 2025
Investing in the arts is how we can save Portland's Congress Street corridor
Kate Sykes, guest columnist August 14, 2025A recent moratorium on development of performing arts venues of 2,000 seats or more "is just the latest in a series of signals that all point in the same conclusion: it’s time to revisit and renew our vision for the Arts District," writes guest
Kate Sykes, guest columnist August 14, 2025
Old Port to host artisan market with a 'young and funky' side to it
Laurie Schreiber August 12, 2025The open-air event, produced by a Portland business called Fête Market, will be held Aug. 30 with another planned for October.
Laurie Schreiber August 12, 2025
Outstanding Women in Business: Shannon Haines is amplifying the arts in Waterville
Peter Van Allen Updated: August 11, 2025Thriving downtowns have a healthy mix of arts, retail and housing, but the director of Waterville Creates says "each community is different, so there can’t be a cookie-cutter approach."
Peter Van Allen Updated: August 11, 2025
Portland's Arts District to get a bold splash of color
Renee Cordes August 4, 2025Starting next week, dozens of art banners will be installed along downtown Congress Street inspired by works from the Portland Museum of Art's permanent collection.
Renee Cordes August 4, 2025
$8M preservation underway on Portland's Victoria Mansion
Laurie Schreiber July 31, 2025Centerpiece projects for the national historic landmark involve restoring a large exterior window bay and preserving original decorative paintings throughout the building.
Laurie Schreiber July 31, 2025
Rockland’s Farnsworth museum unveils store and gallery expansion
Laurie Schreiber Updated: July 7, 2025The Farnsworth Art Museum opens the 365 Design Store and Arts Gallery in time for First Friday festivities on July 11.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: July 7, 2025
Portland arts nonprofit plans $18M theater expansion
Laurie Schreiber June 22, 2025The planned 400-seat venue would be located at the top of Munjoy Hill and would include a multi-functional 'promenade' room for exhibits, performances and events.
Laurie Schreiber June 22, 2025
Addition of Lewiston's Muhammad Ali statue was a decade-long quest
Peter Van Allen June 5, 2025Tom Platz, an Auburn developer, and artist Charlie Hewitt worked for 10 years to bring the Muhammad Ali statue to Lewiston, site of a famous Ali-Sonny Liston fight in May 1965.
Peter Van Allen June 5, 2025
Indigo Arts Alliance acquires its HQ in Portland’s East Bayside
Laurie Schreiber June 3, 2025The arts-and-culture nonprofit acquired the purpose-built studio building it’s occupied since 2019.
Laurie Schreiber June 3, 2025
Fly the flag for Maine in state-sponsored contest
Renee Cordes May 30, 2025Submissions for the Maine Atlas Project are due by Wednesday, July 9.
Renee Cordes May 30, 2025
Maine College of Art & Design partners with Falmouth recording studio
Laurie Schreiber Updated: May 30, 2025Seeking to grow beyond commercial services and serve a wider community of emerging artists, the college partnership with provides musicians with tools, space and mentorship.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: May 30, 2025
Arts group leases Portland space to showcase work of Maine artists and illustrators
Laurie Schreiber Updated: June 2, 2025“Maine is a land of hidden treasures and one of the treasures we’ve unearthed is the sheer amount of illustrators who currently make Maine their home either full-time or part-time.”
Laurie Schreiber Updated: June 2, 2025
On the Record: Music entrepreneur Chris Brown is targeting clients ‘with artistic and career momentum’
Renee Cordes Updated: June 2, 2025After three decades with Bull Moose, Chris Brown left the music and entertainment retailer to start a music consulting business called Chris Brown 33.
Renee Cordes Updated: June 2, 2025
Maine’s newest national monument to host inaugural celebration
Laurie Schreiber Updated: May 22, 2025The Frances Perkins homestead will open as a national monument this summer. Perkins was an advocate for workers' rights was a key architect of the New Deal in the Roosevelt administration.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: May 22, 2025
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Founded by American Express in 2010, the yearly event has become an essential part of the holiday shopping season. The Small Business Administration became the official co-sponsor in 2011.
Last year, shoppers turned out in full force to support their local communities, generating an estimated $22 billion in spending at small retailers and restaurants.
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