Everybody loves to glance up at the August skies and marvel at the Big Dipper, just like we search for the bald eagle on a windy coastal adventure. It's the way life should HAPPY AUGUST FROM be. Let your creative juices flow. Practice the drums or get out your camera. Grill and sleep outside. During lazy beach days, starry nights or stormy nights, pull out your books, notepads, sketchpads, watercolor pads, and iPads. The soul of the Find a moment to relax with family and friends or to reflect artist can not CREATIVE PORTLAND on your own. Try something new this month. Portland is a vibrant arts destination with dazzling fine art galleries, remain hidden. pop-up exhibitions, indie music nights, film festivals, Bug Light movie nights, picnics in the museum’s sculpture Henri J.M. Nouwen garden, Shakespeare in the park, musicals, crafts festivals, AUG and print jams. This month you might discover some new openings, including Trueline Gallery and Prism Analog 2 0 1 9 recording studio, or you may stroll down to Longfellow Square to enjoy dining on the sidewalks with the locals before enjoying somebody new at your local favorite music venue OLS. Dance alongside familiar faces and tourists at major concerts with an impressive roster of national acts at Thompson’s Point, State Theatre, Rock Row, USM and Aura. Check out Kate Beever’s exhibition on the healing power of music at MHS (congrats on your big win!) and the library’s exhibition of Melt Down, curated by Bruce Brown. Don’t miss Tad Beck’s stunner at Grant Wahlquist, Kim Radochia's Shimms at Casco Bay Artisans, Charlie Hewitt and Ian Trask solo shows at Cove Street Arts, and Julia Durgee’s illustrations and plein air paintings at the UMVA Gallery. "Phantom", archival pigment print by Olga Merrill - Dinah Minot, Executive Director Open Call for Art - Creative Portland Gallery "All The Great Trees" | Submission Deadline Sept 13

Greater Portland artists are invited to submit work for exhibition "Please Don't (detail)" print by Pilar Nadal consideration for our 5th juried show, All The Great Trees. Press Play - Pilar Nadal On View July 12-September 29 • All 2D mediums are welcome - no sculptures please The Press Hotel Print by Carter Shappy • Dimensions must be at least 24" X 30" "Salad", oil on board by Michaela Holt • Price must fall between $300 and $3000 Steamy Summer Print Jam & Pilar Nadal is a printmaker based in East Bayside Block Party Mélange - Exhibition Opening Visit our website for full criteria and submission instructions. Portland, Maine. In her individual and August 2 | 5-8pm | Prism Analog collaborative work, she utilizes relief, August 10 | 10am-5pm letterpress, and screen printing as Mélange will be an exhibition of artworks creativeportland.com/opencall Running With Scissors is thrilled to well as public engagement practices, by Portland artists celebrating the be holding the 3rd Annual Steamy creating playful and interactive opening of the new location of Prism Free Summer Community Film & Concert Series Summer Print Jam and East Bayside prints and installations that explore Analog Recording Studio at 34 Preble Block Party! Giant woodblocks! Live communication technologies and Street. Nine artists are participating with FILM steamroller printing! Live music! the spaces that relationships inhabit. 2D artworks in a broad range of media Bayside Bowl Rooftop - August 1, 7, 14, 21, 28 Nadal is the director and master and genres. The opening reception Friends of Congress Square Park - August 4, 11, 18, 25 Steamy Summer Print Jam is part printer of Pickwick Independent will be held during First Friday Art of the East Bayside Block Party! Press, a community printshop located Walk with live music by Gregg Harper. CONCERT Join neighborhood coffee shops, in the heart of the arts district of The exhibition will be on view through Bayside Bowl Rooftop - August 8, 18, 22 breweries, and businesses for the third Portland. Pickwick has the facilities August 17. Artworks will be available for Friends of Lincoln Park - August 6, 13 annual event. It'll be a fun day in the and equipment to create relief, sale with 25% of the sale price going to Friends of the Eastern Prom - August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 neighborhood full of food, drink, live letterpress, screen, and intaglio Prism Analog, a non-profit organization. Friends of Congress Square Park - August 2, 9, 12, 16, 17, 23, 26, 30 printing and offers membership for music, crafts, games, and family fun. printmakers, workshops, residencies, Artists: Estefani Baez, watercolor/ Lead Sponsor: Sponsors: Participating venues include: Coffee and commission work. pilarnadal.com pen; Lizz Berry, fiber arts; Michaela By Design, Cove Street Arts, The pickwickindependentpress.com Flint, illustration; Karolyn Greenstreet, Design Center, Dean's Sweets, painting/mixed media; Haley Hanks, Goodfire Brewing Co., Indigo Arts Opening Reception painting; Gregg Harper, combinatorial Alliance, Open Concepts Gallery, Thursday August 1 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm art; William Hessian, painting; Michaela Portfiber, Running With Scissors, Public welcome. Holt, painting; Bailey Pollack, multimedia Creative Portland's mission is to support the creative economy through the arts by providing essential resources, by fostering Tandem Coffee, Taproot Magazine partnerships, and by promoting Portland's artistic talents and cultural assets. As the official nonprofit arts agency, we support thepresshotel.com/things-to-do prismanalog.org economic development efforts by strengthening and stimulating our workforce, creative industries, and enterprises. rwsartstudios.com Creative Portland | 84 Free Street | 207-370-4784 | [email protected] | creativeportland.com Creative Portland | 84 Free Street | 207-370-4784 | [email protected] | creativeportland.com 1 OUTER CONGRESS 12 WEST BAYSIDE 26 Blue 41 Dorothea & Leo Rabkin 3 OLD PORT 1 Open Bench Project 13 Bayside Bowl 27 Bomb Diggity Arts 3 Foundation 89 Caleb Johnson Studio ARTS & CULTURE MAP 2 Thompson's Point 14 Fork Food Lab 28 Border Patrol & Project MEAC 42 Finn Teach Mini Gallery 90 Casco Bay Artisans 2 WEST END 15 Maine Oyster Company 29 Bridge Gallery 43 First Parish Church 91 Dobrá Tea with 3 Love Lab Studio 16 New System Exhibitions & New Fruit 30 Broken Crow Collective 44 Geno's Rock Club 92 Dockfore 4 Maine Irish Heritage Center 17 Still Life Studio 31 Cape Madras 45 Grant Wahlquist Gallery 93 Fire on Fore 5 PelotonLabs 18 The Apohadion Theater 32 Chestnut Street Lofts Gallery 46 Greater Portland Landmarks 94 Fore River Gallery 6 PrintCraft 19 The Bakery Glass Studios 33 Children’s Museum & Theatre 47 Le Bureau 95 Greenhut Galleries ART WALK LISTINGS 7 Seventy Five State Street 20 The Public Works 34 City Hall 48 Lincoln Park 96 Higher Grounds 8 The Fire Museum ARTS DISTRICT 35 Coffee By Design 49 Longfellow Books 97 Maine Potters Market 9 The Francis 21 Able Baker Contemporary 36 Congress Square Gallery 50 Longfellow Square 98 Portland Art Gallery Join in a free self-guided tour of local art galleries, art 10 Victoria Mansion 22 Art House Picture Frames 37 Congress Square Park 51 Maine Center for Electronic Music 99 Post Office Park studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the first 11 Waynflete 23 AURA 38 coworkHERS 52 Maine College Of Art 100 Process / Art At Akari Friday of every month from 5 to 8pm. 12 Wellness Connection of Maine 24 Avon Street Gallery 39 Creative Portland 53 Maine Craft Portland 101 The Blazin' Ace 25 Bakery Studios 40 Daunis Fine Handmade Jewelry 54 Maine Historical Society & 1023 The Telling Room 3 The Longfellow Garden 103 The Press Hotel 18 120 114 16 124 115 55 Mainely Frames & Gallery 104 Vena’s Fizz House 1 125 19 121 116 126 RT. 7,9,B 56 Maine Street Design Co. 3 EAST END 2 128 14 123 118 5 127 129 57 Maine Surfers Union 1053 Abyssinian Meeting House 130 9 119 58 Mechanics’ Hall 106 Coffee By Design 13 RT. 2,4,5 59 Merrill Auditorium 1073 Maine Jewish Museum 20 17 60 Monument Square 108 Maine Narrrow Gauge Railroad 61 Oak Street Studios/Side x Side 1093 Ocean Gateway 15 62 One Longfellow Square 110 Old St Paul's 12 63 Pinecone+Chickadee 111 Print: A Bookstore RT. 1 + 9 122 64 Port City Music Hall 112 St. Lawrence Arts 84 117 70 65 Portland House of Music 113 Urban Dwellings 24 72 76 32 3 3 42 73 47 66 Portland Media Center EAST BAYSIDE * RT. 1 27 79 21 58 56 59 67 Portland Museum Of Art 114 angela adams 28 88 50 44 37 55 86 * 36 53 51 54 *68 69 43 38 68 Portland Public Library 115 Cove Street Arts 78 34 26 111 62* 110 1073 116 61 60 69 Portland Regional Chamber Indigo Arts Alliance 83 30 29 77 52 66 64 74 35 * 89 112 40 41 71 103 70 Portland Stage 117 Mayo Street Arts 67 85 * 49 48 113 33 80 23 45 * * 71 Portland Symphony Orchestra 118 Open Concepts 39 82 57 65 * 8 81 75 72 Prism Analog 119 Portland Pottery 63 91* 31 73 Publication Studio 120 Running With Scissors 46 100 94 * * 99 74 Public Market House 121 Urban Farm Fermentory 11 25 22 1053 122 Venn + Maker 87 106 75 Roux & Cyr International 98 95 3 Fine Art Gallery 123 Zero Station

4 7 76 Sanctuary Tattoo 3 OAKDALE 10 6 * 77 SPACE 124 Casco Bay Frames & Gallery 96 101 93 104 78 State Theatre 125 University of Southern Maine 97 1023 79 The Art Department 3 WOODFORDS CORNER *92 108 80 The Dogfish Bar & Grille 126 SPEEDWELL projects 1093 81 The Dooryard 127 Sun Tiki Studios

First Friday Art Walk Participant * * 82 The Fresnel Theater 128 The Bakery Photo Collective 90 83 The Jewel Box 129 Portland Ballet RT. 8 Arts & Culture Venue 84 The Studio & MAMM 3 DEERING 85 The UMVA Gallery 130 UNE Art Gallery Portland Public Art Collection * 131 132 * 86 Think Tank Gallery 3 PEAKS ISLAND Visit portlandartwalk.org for detailed listings. METRO Bus Stop 87 Todd Webb Archive 131 Richard Boyd Art Gallery 88 Trueline Gallery @ 561 132 The Studio on Peaks Island