What’s New
Lest We Forget
YES Art Works artist, Michael Douglas is one of over 30 artists whose exhibits will be on display at the Hall of Flags in Augusta during a special event titled “Lest We Forget” on May 9, 2013. Hosted by the Maine Association for Community Service Providers, the exhibit is meant to be bring the voices [...]
YES Art Works/CWS Awarded Grant!
YES Art Works is happy to announce we were selected as one of the 2012 recipients of Coffee By Design’s Rebel Blend Grant Fund Award! PORTLAND, Maine – Coffee By Design announced the recipients of its Rebel Blend Fund for 2012. Receiving grants are: * The Lewiston-Auburn Film Festival, $1,500 to add a High [...]
The Atelier Stitch Joins YES Art Works for Retaken
YES Art Works invited special guest designer, Giselle LaFrance owner of Atelier Stitch to assist in the creation of original fashion designs at our studios. YES Art Works has partnered with people throughout the community for an art/fashion event, Retaken – A Fashion Crawl. Scheduled for July 6 during the First Friday Art Walk in [...]
Retaken – A Fashion Crawl
YES Art Works has partnered with people throughout the community for an art/fashion event, Retaken – A Fashion Crawl. Scheduled for July 6 during the First Friday Art Walk in Portland and organized by Mary Jo Marquis, Art Program Manager for CWS, the event enlists professional fashion designers and seamstresses from Atelier Stitch and other [...]
YES Art Works Team to Trek Across Maine
YES Art Works is looking for a few good bikers (Well, you don’t even have to be good, just like biking!) to create a team of bike riders from CWS and participate in the American Lung Association’s 2012 Trek Across Maine to be held on Father’s Day Weekend, June 15-17, 2012. From the mountains of [...]
Sitting Pretty
L.L.Bean is celebrating their 100th anniversary this year and donated 100 wooden canoe paddles to the PORT Teen Center in Freeport. The paddles have been re-created into 100 works of art from organizations and individual across the community. The paddles will be on exhibit at the L.L. Bean Store in Freeport and at Clayton’s Cafe [...]
YES Art Works Connects Artists with Disabilities to the Community
YES Art Works provides the inspiration, materials, and studios to help people with disabilities grow as artists. One fundamental part of what we do is connect emerging artists to the community through exhibitions in galleries, restaurants, and shops. Through your support of our efforts, YES Art Works artists move toward independence and gain further confidence [...]
Catch YES Art Works at Space Gallery
Three YES Art Works artists will be included in the Free for All exhibit at Space Gallery on Congress Street in Portland until March 2. Richard Moore’s Power Lines, Kendra Sanborn’s Primitive Fish, and Donna Cluff’s Bathing Beauty will join a variety of other artists in a what Space calls “a democratic curatorial experiment.”
