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Bangor First Fridays Art Walks First Friday Art Walks are monthly community events featuring local artists and venues located in downtown, Bangor, Maine.

These Art Walks are produced by volunteers in cooperation with the Bangor Art Society and dozens of local businesses!

Art as life allows it by Rick Hanscom About the Artist Art as life allows itReality to me has always been suggestive.I h...
15/08/2025

Art as life allows it by Rick Hanscom

About the Artist
Art as life allows it
Reality to me has always been suggestive.
I have found if you can find a way to feel anything besides what is right in front of you, you could live in a dream. Art has been a way of doing this for me.
When I paint, I no longer exist in this world. Being completely consumed by what I am creating, I lose touch with everything else around me.
Emotions now only exist in their rawest form. My name is Richard Hanscom. I was born in New Hampshire and have also been to a few other places in the United States, but Maine is where I have spent most of my life and in many ways will always be my home.
Painting is something I found later on in my life. I never knew just how much I would fall in love with it. There are several things I use to paint on: glass, panel board, canvas, and canvas panel. They all have their differences that I use as a way to create.
Oil paint is what I primarily choose to use on these mediums.
Penwork is something else I have fallen for. It brings out another side of me I pursue just as intently.
Growing up for me was a bit chaotic, never thinking of art until much later in my life. I think I found it exactly when I needed to. It is something that helps me so much in so many ways, and it is my honor to share that with all of you.

gifts
Art as Life Allows will be shown at Paloma’s until the end of the month!

Samantha Page Grimwood / 8/1My name is Samantha Grimwood, I am a practicing artist and curator.I exist in two forms wit...
15/08/2025

Samantha Page Grimwood

/ 8/1

My name is Samantha Grimwood, I am a practicing artist and curator.
I exist in two forms within the creative realm, there is the artist who creates and the curator who curates. These forms exist in tandem and inform and shape the other. As an artist I experiment with many mediums. My interest in a material or medium starts the creative process. Working with it encourages the want to understand its origin and experiment with the way it is situated in the current dialogues of contemporary art. My creative process evolves with my practice as my interests shift. The context of the works explore the reality that they exist in but pose questions for the viewer to ponder in their experience with the work. In this place of questioning I, as the artist and curator, act as a witness to the dialogue of the work in relation to the viewer and its space.

Location
Dream In Gold Studio - Jewelry, Art & More

A bio from Sea Witch by Kristie “Sea Witch, a book of photography and poetry by Maine native, Kristic Billings - images...
10/08/2025



A bio from Sea Witch by Kristie
“Sea Witch, a book of photography and poetry by Maine native, Kristic Billings - images and words of the sea, nature, folk art, dolls, loss, grief, love, acceptance, rage, music, life.
From punk rock to menopause to swimming with seals! A middle-aged story of a Sea Witch.
A great lover of music, of art, and life, Kristie is drawn to beauty, even in the most ordinary, mundane way. She is drawn to what others may pass by, unnoticed.
Kristie has worn many hats over the years. She is a
long time Saturday night DJ on Community Radio, WERU 89.9 FM, in Orland, Maine. From small town grocery clerk, to making tie dye t-shirts for the local import shop, sometimes working at a fish market, or selling men’s suits, she owned her own shoe store. She has been an Arts Educator at a local theater, and lobster fisher, barista, and antique seller.
Kristie is a collector. Of stories, of emotions, of dolls, of feelings, wigs, mannequin parts, record albums, memories, beauty, laughter, vintage clothing, scallop shells, barnacles, hermit crabs. She is an observer. She’s been writing poetry since childhood, beginning with her love of Edna St.Vincent Millay to the Beat poets, Bukowski, and beyond. As for photography, she has been taking pictures for years with an old Nikon, and has proceeded to collect more cameras since then.
She is drawn with awe to the artists that may make you uncomfortable.”

Location

The JourneyAn Exhibition by Alexis PriceThe Journey brings together a vibrant collection of paintings by artist Alexis P...
10/08/2025

The Journey
An Exhibition by Alexis Price

The Journey brings together a vibrant collection of paintings by artist Alexis Price, marking her first solo exhibition in Maine since relocating from New York City in 2020.
Through powerful portraits of beastly goddesses and emotionally charged narratives, Price delves into the profound weight of what we carry as humans. She examines the roles of motherhood, experiences of desire and moments of loss and translates them into universal expressions of female empowerment and messages of resilience.
This body of work, which spans the past several years of Price's life, offers an intimate exploration of identity, navigating the spiritual stepping stones of awakening, trauma, enlightenment and rebirth. By visually exploring these subjects, viewers are invited into a shared experience of profound transformation. Price's background in dance also influences her figurative work, with each figure displaying a deep sense of emotion through movement. Through compelling emotional truths woven into each piece, The Joumey invites you to witness the beauty of becoming oneself over and over again....

Location

Donald Patten 8/1About the Artist:Donald Patten is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He has recently graduated from the Uni...
08/08/2025

Donald Patten 8/1

About the Artist:
Donald Patten is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He has recently graduated from the University of Maine at Augusta with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts. An accomplished multimedia artist, Donald has exhibited his work in gallery spaces in Bangor and across Maine. He participates in multiple art fairs around the Mid-Coast region of Maine during the summer and winter seasons. He works as a part-time figure drawing coordinator for the figure drawing group at Waterfall Arts in Belfast, Maine. As an artist, he currently produces illustrative oil paintings, charcoal figure drawings, graphite illustrations, and ceramic sculptures. His future plans are to enter a Master of Fine Arts program in the near future to become a professor of drawing and painting.

Location:
The Rock and Art Shop
36 Central St, Downtown Bangor, Maine

04/08/2025

This past First Friday in Downtown Bangor, Maine was a fun one! Thank you to all of the artist who came out and thank you to all of the businesses who hosted! Check out this amazing video made by our volunteers!

Video by 0Ws Studio
Edited by Mia Bellemare

Interviewed by Ben James

Locations and artists

Join us for the next First Friday Art Walk! August 1st, 2025.

Flyer Art by

The Rock and Art Shop
36 Central St.
* The Journey, Paintings by Alexis Price
* Reception from 5 to 7 artist talk at 6pm

Dream in Gold
98 Central St.
* Photography by Samantha Grimwood

The Zilman Art Museum
40 Harlow St.
* Various Artist

Red Rabbit Bazaar
54 Columbia St.
* Photography Collection of Kristie Billings

The Maine Photo Loft
16 State St.
3rd Floor
* ARTIST #1. Eva Haase Fine Art will be featured. Coastal Maine inspired and magical!

* ARTIST #2. Sarah Sullivan, Female Empowerment Photographer - Expressionism Art Large Scale collection called The Embodied Spiritual Self

Fine Prints Studio
60 Columbia St.
* Michael Hallahan demonstration shoot with a couple of dancers.

Sawyer’s Shave Ice
173 Park St.
* Lindsey St Jeans Art

The Emporium Spooky Goods and More
22 State St.
* Cats in the Belfry

Two Feet Brewing
80 Columbia
* Nero Fyler

Paloma’s Gift Shop
* Richard Hanscom

Join us for the next First Friday Art Walk! August 1st, 2025. Flyer Art by The Rock and Art Shop36 Central St.* The Jou...
23/07/2025

Join us for the next First Friday Art Walk! August 1st, 2025.

Flyer Art by

The Rock and Art Shop
36 Central St.
* The Journey, Paintings by Alexis Price
* Reception from 5 to 7 artist talk at 6pm

Dream in Gold Jewelry
98 Central St.
* Photography by Samantha Grimwood

The Zilman Art Museum
40 Harlow St.
* Various Artist

Red Rabbit Bazaar
54 Columbia St.
* Photography Collection of Kristie Billings

The Maine Photo Loft
16 State St.
3rd Floor
* ARTIST #1. Eva Haase Fine Art will be featured. Coastal Maine inspired and magical! Her

* ARTIST #2. Sarah Sullivan, Female Empowerment Photographer - Expressionism Art Large Scale collection called The Embodied Spiritual Self

Fine Prints Studio
60 Columbia St.
* Michael Hallahan demonstration shoot with a couple of dancers.

Sawyer’s Shave Ice
173 Park St.
* Lindsey St Jeans Art

The Emporium Spooky Goods and More
22 State St.
* Cats in the Belfry

Two Feet Brewing
80 Columbia
* Nero Fyler

Paloma’s Gift Shop
* Richard Hanscom

Be Part of The Art! Join the Bangor First Fridays Art Walks on a self guided walk through downtown Bangor, Maine. Read t...
17/07/2025

Be Part of The Art! Join the Bangor First Fridays Art Walks on a self guided walk through downtown Bangor, Maine. Read these post to learn more!

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