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Bon Appetit founding editor, Maine resident leaves $3.7M to Brunswick music festival
August 5, 2024Patricia Crawford Brown, who died in May, worked as a volunteer to help young musicians attend the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Now her bequest will establish a fund to support scholarships at the festival in the future.
August 5, 2024
Ready for a close-up: Maine movie-making steps into larger role
Updated: July 24, 2024A slew of film festivals and special shows will be available to Maine cinephiles in the coming weeks.
Updated: July 24, 2024
Gift shop and gallery open in Wells
Updated: July 22, 2024Lehoux Art is envisioned as a gathering place for anyone looking to be creative in a non-intimidating atmosphere.
Updated: July 22, 2024
'We need action': Portland symposium, film premiere to benefit National Black Brewers Association
Updated: July 15, 2024A two-day symposium hosted by Orange Bike Brewing Co. will include the Maine premiere of "One Pint at a Time," an award-winning documentary about the Black experience in American craft beer.
Updated: July 15, 2024
Maine Arts Commission names a New York curator as its new executive director
July 3, 2024The Maine Arts Commission has hired Amy Hausmann as its new executive director.
July 3, 2024
In search of a sustainable source of wood, Lewiston guitar maker buys saw mill
Updated: July 3, 2024In addition to working with red spruce, Bourgeois Guitars seeks to cultivate market appetite for the sustainable domestic "tonewood" species found in Maine’s northern forests.
Updated: July 3, 2024
After $850K makeover, Maine State Aquarium reopens in West Boothbay
June 25, 2024Structural problems led to renovations of walls and floors, along with upgrades to the pumps and filters, new display tanks and custom-made touch tanks.
June 25, 2024
$750K grant to historic Newcastle homestead will support staffing and more
Updated: June 17, 2024The grant will fund five hires and two studies — to guide interpretation and preservation and to establish a fundraising and revenue-raising.
Updated: June 17, 2024
Bath nonprofit promotes green space, playground use via the power of music
Updated: June 10, 2024A large xylophone and music book, constructed to withstand the elements, were installed as a playful public art installation designed to promote park use.
Updated: June 10, 2024
In Oxford County, Norway is making headway
Updated: June 10, 2024The downtown is seeing a surge of revitalization — including an old factory's conversion to an arts hub, and the reopening of parts of the Norway Opera House that were unusable for nearly 40 years.
Updated: June 10, 2024
Bangor launches marketing collaborative to promote arts and culture scene
Updated: June 5, 2024Arts and culture organizations invest in keeping the performances flowing and don’t always have extra money for messaging. A collaboration aims to change that.
Updated: June 5, 2024National Endowment for the Arts grants directs $1.2M to 8 Maine organizations
Updated: May 28, 2024More than $110 million was directed toward arts organizations around the country, including nearly $1.2 million for Maine arts programs.
Updated: May 28, 2024
Portland paves the way for Free Street building demo, museum's planned $100M expansion
May 21, 2024At the request of the Portland Museum of Art, the Portland City Council has agreed to reclassify 142 Free St. as a "noncontributing structure" in the Congress Street Historic District.
May 21, 2024
With demand for classes surging, Portland Pottery leases additional site in East Bayside
Updated: May 16, 2024Pottery classes are hot stuff now, and Portland Pottery expanded its capacity to hold classes and offer studio space by taking over space in the East Bayside neighborhood.
Updated: May 16, 2024
Inc. names Maine historian-CEO among celebrity entrepreneurs in 'Female Founders 250'
Updated: May 3, 2024The founder of HistoryIT, Kristen Gwinn-Becker, has joined the ranks of women entrepreneurs who are changing history — women like Billie Jean King.
Updated: May 3, 2024
Madeleine Corson, family business owner, publisher and philanthropist, dies at 87
May 1, 2024Madeleine “Maddy” G. Corson, granddaughter of a Maine media mogul, died Monday, leaving a legacy in business and with numerous nonprofits and causes.
May 1, 2024
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