Arts & Culture

Last month Leon Sockbeson II of Pleasant Point sent a design sketch for a dress to the renowned designer Adrianna Papell...

In the early 1990s the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance was formed with 55 founding members, comprised of elders from the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes.

Homegrown: The Music of America Presented by the Library of Congress" hosted two members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe on Wednesday, September 15. Blanche Sockabasin and Wayne Newell are the first Native Americans from east of the Mississippi to perform in this series, which began in 2002.

Alive with Art was the theme in Lubec during the week of August 17 through 22. Billed as a Downeast community art event and envisioned by Lubec art teacher Shanna Wheelock with the help of Maine artist Natasha Mayers, the event unleashed a virtual explosion of creativity in this small community.

Eastport will once again be the site of a film production, and area residents will have an opportunity to be actors in a low-cost film scheduled to be shot during late April and May.

Artist John Foley can boast that his work hangs in the White House. True, it's only there for the holiday season, it hangs from a Christmas tree, and the painter's canvas is a six inch plastic ball...