Union of Maine Visual Artists

06/29/2025

UMVA is on a roll! Portland Public Library show, Washed Away was fabulous and packed, the Maine Arts Journal Summer 2025 https://maineartsjournal.com/ is launched, ARRT! and LumenARRT! are in high gear and more!

01/02/2025

The Winter 2025 Maine Arts Journal—UMVA Quarterly is launched!

In our theme description and call for submissions, we reproduced a photograph in which we see Joan Mitchell in her Parisian studio. The artist sits on the floor, surrounded by unstretched canvases bearing the webs of her distinctive colorful gestural skeins. She looks up towards the photographer, in...

09/29/2024

UMVA members, if you missed the Gala, don't fret, read about it in the just launched Fall Maine Arts Journal—UMVA Quarterly! You will also see the work of many friends and colleagues in the issue: The Portrait and Beyond.

Carlo Pittore brought us all together again (posthumously) as the fiftieth year of the UMVA turned. Vice president. Joanne Tarlin’s member survey last year told the board that at the very top of the list of members’ hopes and desires was renewed camaraderie. The Gala at Bowdoinham’s Merrymeeti...

07/23/2024

Love being included in this show!

(Portland, ME) The Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA) in conjunction with the Lincoln Theater, proudly presents the UMVA Portrait Pop-Up, located on the

03/09/2024

Celebrate VOTING! Check out our video of LumenARRT! projection Mach 1. Enjoy, share.
https://fb.watch/qBVnjgKemV/

01/01/2024

The Maine Arts journal Winter 2024 issue is out today! The Members' Showcase will delight all and don't miss UMVA updates and advocacy features by our president, David Estey. Much to delve into for the new year!

Val Porter I built a three-dimensional Exquisite Co**se. It seemed like a fun challenge: exploring all the different possibilities with different perspectives in a three-dimensional Exquisite Co**se. I made a giraffe on one side and a rhinoceros on the other. I laughed hard when I found the arms of....

07/04/2023

Stop by the UMVA Gallery this Friday to see the art and meet the artists!

Kimberly Harding Sandy’s stability threatened to unravel during her husband’s final months of melanoma and cancer treatment-induced type one diabetes. Used to the protection and pampering of her loving husband for over sixty years, she focused on compulsive tidiness, elegance, and family. Some o...

07/03/2023

As we settle into the summer, we bring to you an issue addressing a notion central to life: balance. We asked our contributors to think about the many ways in which equilibrium and imbalance play out in their work: how they affect composition, color scheme, style, or meaning, and, in turn, how such....

07/01/2023

UMVA Artists are showcased in this summer issue of the MAJ. In a collaboration with the UMVA Portland Gallery, UMVA artists addressed the theme "In Balance/Imbalance" showing their work in the MAJ and Gallery at the same time. Please check out all three sections of the Showcase which are arranged alphabetically. There were so many artists participating we couldn't fit them in one post! Also make sure to see the actual exhibit opening Friday July 7 at 516 Congress Street. See you there!

Mildred Bachrach The Deterioration of the Soul, depicts what happens to one’s essence (being “in balance”) when constantly confronted by negativity and demoralizing behavior. I have seen this syndrome when someone is involved with a narcissistic personality. One’s inner core is thrown off ba...

07/01/2023

Perfect timing for rainy day reading, the issue is profound and timely. Please read and share widely! We'd love your feedback!

As we settle into the summer, we bring to you an issue addressing a notion central to life: balance. We asked our contributors to think about the many ways in which equilibrium and imbalance play out in their work: how they affect composition, color scheme, style, or meaning, and, in turn, how such....

02/28/2023