Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates!, one of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations and a key driver in making the city a vibrant arts and cultural destination in central Maine, has been selected to sponsor EmcArts’ Arts in Complex Community Change program in Waterville. The series provides unique capacity-building support for arts organizations and their…
May 30 – June 30, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Prints at the Scale of People, an exhibition of printmaking that explores oversized examples of the medium. On view at Common Street Arts from May 30 – June 30, 2018. An opening reception…
Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates!, one of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations and a key driver in making the city a vibrant destination in central Maine, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town program to undertake, in partnership with the City of Waterville, Colby College,…
Waterville, Maine — The Waterville Creates! Public Art Task Group announces three new temporary public art exhibitions to be on view from June through September in the City of Waterville. Three artists, Maggie Libby, Lisa Link, and Jesse Salisbury, were selected to provide works based on their responses to a public call for artists’ reflections…
Presented by Common Street Arts April 11 – May 19, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Side by Side: new work by cassie jones + will sears, an exhibition celebrating the work of two contemporary Maine artists at Common Street Arts from April 11…
Waterville, Maine — Colby College and Waterville Creates! have announced plans to transform a historical downtown building into a new center for contemporary art and film, making Waterville a singular destination for the arts in Maine. The project, which includes a significant fundraising effort, features new and renovated space at 93 Main Street to support…
YAM Exhibition Presented by Common Street Arts February 28 – March 31, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present Youth Art Month (YAM), an exhibition celebrating our community’s youngest painters, illustrators and sculptors at Common Street Arts from February 28 – March 31, 2018. This…
New Speaker Series Focusing on Public Art and Creative Placemaking Launches March 15, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Waterville Creates! and the Colby College Museum of Art, two of Maine’s leading arts and cultural organizations, will co-present Space for Conversation, a free speakers’ series designed to establish a shared understanding of best practices for public art…
Presented at Common Street Arts August 1 – September 8, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, in partnership with members of the Waterville Area Art Society, the Harlow Gallery, Common Street Arts and the Wesserunsett Arts Council, will host Ebb + Flow: Reflections on the Kennebec River, a…
Presented by Common Street Arts January 10 – February 10, 2018 Waterville, Maine — Common Street Arts, the programmatic arm of Waterville Creates!, is pleased to present dwell: at home in the gallery, an interactive exhibition and creative exploration at Common Street Arts from January 10 – February 10, 2018. dwell is an interactive exhibition…
Free community fun day offers family-friendly entertainment, activities, goodies and more at participating locations in Waterville Waterville, Maine —On Saturday, December 2nd the city of Waterville will embrace the holiday spirit with “Joy to the Ville” – an all-day community event meant to celebrate the magic of the holiday season here on the Kennebec River.…
Selling handmade art and crafts by more than 40 Maine artists from November 15th – December 23rd Waterville, Maine —The Common Street Arts Gallery will once again become a Winter Wonderland as Waterville Creates! turns the Common Street Arts’ gallery into a Holiday Retail Shop featuring the artistic creations of more than 40 Maine artists.…