The museum is housed within the restored Etz Chaim Synagogue, a turn-of-the-century house of worship. The museum is a venue for contemporary art exhibits feature established, Jewish-connected, and Maine-connected artists and rotate every eight weeks.
Most of the art we exhibit is for sale. Your purchase helps support artists and the Maine Jewish Museum.
Our current exhibitions are listed below.
JEANE COHEN
September 11 – October 30, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
In this suite of intimate new paintings by Jeane Cohen, bountiful imagery affixes itself between the power of suggestion and the edges of perception.
KATY HELMAN
September 11 – October 30, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Deer Isle, Maine based artist Katy Helman has a long history of exhibiting regionally. Layered in color, texture and images Helman and her work are in constant motion. Her bold and jubilant work is rooted in process based abstraction and a love of primary color. Guest curators Susie Brandt and Ellen Wieske are excited to bring these dimensional insistent exuberant wonders off island to a larger audience at the Maine Jewish Museum.
RACHAEL CERROTTI
September 11 – October 30, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
In 1939, Hana Dubova was sent with a cohort of Czech Jewish teens from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the Danish countryside; she was 14 years old and now a refugee. Seventy-five years later, Hana’s granddaughter, photographer Rachael Cerrotti, set out to retrace her grandmother’s survival story.
JOYCE ELLEN WEINSTEIN
September 11 – October 30, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
In the pop-up space, the artist presents limited edition prints that are her personal interpretation of biblical characters from a contemporary perspective, and how their life’s struggles are universal even to this day.
All images copyright of the artist, unless otherwise noted; reproduction not allowed without express permission
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