June Art Events at Constellation Gallery

The monthly Life Drawing Workshop at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland, is Friday, June 15th from 7 to 9 PM, $10 at the door.  Artists working in any media and at all skill levels are invited to this drop-in session with a live model.  There are a limited number of easels available provided on a first come, first served basis, but artists are asked to bring their own supplies.  Please call 207-409-6617 for more information.

Interactive Assemblage Art Demonstration & Art Give-Away, Friday, June 22 from 7 to 9 pm at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland.  New Constellation artistAnastasia Weigle will create a piece of assemblage art, a process of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects.  Participants are encouraged to bring in a found object (no larger than 5 inches).  Weigle will use the objects brought in to create an art piece as she details her working process.  Participants who donated objects will be entered into a drawing to win the work of art that Weigle creates that evening.  Donations are requested at the door.  Please call 207-409-6617 for more information.
                                                          

Portland Performing Arts Festival Fringe at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland, is Friday, June 29th from 6 to 8 pm features dance and music in the gallery space,#5 suggested donation at the door .  At 6 pm, Nabintu will perform a style of belly dance she created called Rwandan Fusion.  It is inspired by the unifying and symbolic traditional Rwandan dance she learned while living in Central Africa, fused with traditional and improvisational belly dance.  

At 6:30, composer and improvisational pianist Gregory Hall will perform.  Hall is well known as both a composer (having written pieces for over 40 ensembles) and performer.  He is president of the Maine Composers Forum and the American Composers Alliance (ACA).  He describes his improvisational style as performances in the virtuoso spirit of the great composer/pianists of the early twentieth century such as Scriabin and Messiaen.

Please call 207-409-6617 for more information.