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.
Masks optional.
Henry Isaacs
August 31 – October 27, 2023
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Known for his New England landscape painting, Henry Isaacs returns to the Maine Jewish Museum with this exhibition featuring the landscapes of ponds, beaches, and rivers which are favorite, secret and loved places where we gather and play.
Nanci Kahn + Meredith Kennedy
August 31 – October 27, 2023
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Kahn + Kennedy’s photographs and cyanotypes are meditations on the fleeting quality of sun and water.
Margaret Leland
August 31 – October 27, 2023
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Margaret (Magi) Leland uses a poetic eye to abstract and interpret the natural world.
Lesia Sochor
August 31 – October 27, 2023
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
“Love of my ancestral homeland and horror at the merciless, brutal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine compelled me to paint images of Babushkas. This iconic symbol of a culture stirs memories of my mother, who in her later years wore one most every day.”
All images copyright of the artist, unless otherwise noted; reproduction not allowed without express permission
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