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  • Mαwte: Bound Together

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    An intricately and colorfully beaded artwork depicting a river and river bed with trees.
  • Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali

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    In a black and white drawing by Laylah Ali, A stylized portrait features a figure adorned with intricate black and white patterns.
  • Some American Stories

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    Decorative vessel with a textured, spiky surface and blue accents on a dark background.
  • Alex Katz: Repetitions

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    A painting by Alex Katz of a dense forest with tall brown tree trunks and intersecting branches.

Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Global Crossings: Selections from the Lunder Collection

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    A hazy, luminous oil painting of Venice at sunset. Pale yellow light from a central sun reflects on the water, illuminating a cluster of sailboats with colorful sails. The city skyline and the dome of Santa Maria della Salute are visible as misty silhouettes in the background. Two figures sit on a small stone pier in the lower right foreground.
  • Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond

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    An abstract painting featuring a background wash of soft purples and greys. Various shapes are layered on top, including a cluster of pink, red, and purple watercolor-like shapes in the upper right. A dominant orange shape is centered within a large black irregular circle. Splatters of black and white paint, thin dark lines resembling branches, and smaller turquoise, white, and purple shapes are distributed across the composition.
  • Quick Things Passing: The Alex Katz Collection

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    A vertical composition featuring a light-grey and white tree trunk positioned slightly off-center. The trunk is surrounded by a lush canopy of vibrant green leaves, rendered in flat, rhythmic dabs of light and dark green paint. The perspective looks slightly upward into the bright foliage.
  • Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

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    An abstract ink wash painting in reddish-orange on white paper, featuring thick, vertical strokes and gestural blotches that suggest a dense thicket of trees.
  • Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas

    Exhibition Details
    A vertical portrait of a person whose face and neck are covered in white pigment. Their head and face are tightly bound in a grid-like "trap" or cage made of pink and black braided fabric. The subject looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a plain white background.

Upcoming Events

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  • Art Break: Sarah Sockbeson and J. Rae Pictou

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    Two people, one wearing a brown hat and black puffer jacket and the other a brown hooded coat, stand in a dimly lit museum gallery looking up at a large, vibrant artwork. The artwork is a detailed, layered paper-cut or mixed-media landscape featuring stylized, jagged pink and purple mountains under a swirling pink and blue sky. The foreground shows dark green and yellow-green forests and plants, creating a striking contrast with the bright, almost neon colors of the mountains and sky
  • February First Friday

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    Logo for First Friday Downtown Waterville featuring the words "First Friday" in a decorative white font above three stylized, wavy white lines, with the words "Downtown Waterville" curving beneath the lines, all enclosed in a white oval on an light blue background.
  • Drop-in Drawing Session

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    A medium shot shows a young man with short blonde hair and a light complexion, wearing a peach-colored button-down shirt and a black and white striped apron. He is standing in a printmaking studio, leaning over a large, flat, rectangular stone block on a metal table. He is carefully lifting a sheet of paper from the surface of the stone with his right hand while pressing down on the other side with his left hand to reveal a print. The print on the stone features two small sketches of heads and some faint text. The background is a cluttered workshop with wooden cabinets, various printmaking tools like rollers and ink tins, and industrial pipes along the ceiling. The lighting is bright and even, typical of a studio environment.
  • Art Break: Sail Away by Phong Bui

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    A vertical collage artwork combining various materials on a background painted with abstract strokes of teal and turquoise. The top section features a partially opened beige envelope with a purple heart drawn on it, a stamp, and postmarks. Centered on the envelope is a rectangular image of a classical bas-relief sculpture depicting two figures, one muscular and one draped. The bottom third of the collage is a painted scene of a dark green ship or boat on brown waves, set beneath a textured, light blue sky with abstract white and gray shapes. The top and bottom edges of the entire piece are bordered with a decorative olive-green and white patterned trim.
  • You're Speaking My Language: French and Italian

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    A vibrant watercolor and ink sketch depicting the Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) in Rome's Piazza Navona. In the foreground, the dark, dramatic figures of the fountain are rendered with expressive, calligraphic line work and deep brown washes. An Egyptian obelisk rises vertically through the center of the frame, bathed in warm, pale sunlight. Behind it, the ornate dome and facade of the Sant'Agnese in Agone church are captured with light blue shadows and golden-tan highlights. The style is loose and atmospheric, using a limited palette of warm ochres, cool blues, and earthy browns to suggest depth and bright Italian sunlight.
  • Music in the Museum: Resinosa Ensemble

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    A professional portrait of three women smiling in front of a textured stone wall. They are all dressed in elegant black attire. The woman on the left has long blonde hair and wears a black top with a ribbon belt. The woman in the center has long brown hair and wears a black lace top. The woman on the right has curly reddish-brown hair and holds a cello, with the neck and scroll visible in the foreground. The lighting is bright and natural, casting soft shadows against the grey and brown stones.
  • Art Break: RMF-323 by RM Fischer

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    A vertical photograph of a mixed-media sculpture resembling a primitive or deconstructed figure, standing on a pale blue floor against a plain white wall. The structure is supported by thin brass or copper rods and wires, and it incorporates various stitched fabric elements, including a tall, cylindrical white form with red patches at the top, and smaller, stuffed, irregularly shaped pieces with exposed zippers, buttons, and cross-stitching, giving it a Frankenstein or rag-doll aesthetic. Small, circular metal discs resembling cymbals are attached to the upper left side.
  • Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: Laylah Ali

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    A simple, graphic painting of a figure with a black head and wide, upward-looking eyes. The figure wears a dark red cape and an orange shirt over blue pants, with arms outstretched as if floating or falling.