Edward L. Deci, the director and president of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, announces his retirement after 36 years in key leadership roles at the museum. Monday, Sept. 30 was Deci’s last day as director, but he will continue to play an integral role at the museum as the president of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History Board of Trustees.

On the rainy evening of Thursday, Sept. 26, the eager audience that came out to take in the inaugural Talking Food in Maine: Intimate Conversations event featuring famous chef Melissa Kelly was told that Kelly was running late. Her plane out of New York City had been delayed and – jokes aside — she was still driving through Wiscasset at 7:08 p.m.

Bremen native Mary Sue Weeks will display her work at the Bremen Library, located at 204 Waldoboro Road in Bremen, beginning Thursday, Oct. 3. Weeks has studied painting throughout her life. Her studies have included classes with artists across the United States, and she has an art history degree from Colby College.

The Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta announces the opening of its “Small Works” art show. This is the fifth show of the 2019 season, opening Oct. 11 and running until Nov. 10. The show features work that is small in scale, but large in impact. Work will be presented in a variety of mediums, including oil, watercolor, sculpture, photography, gouache, and pastel. 

Author May Davidson, of Whitefield and Round Pond, will be the guest speaker at the 1 p.m. meeting of the Jefferson Historical Society on Saturday, Oct. 19. She will share some of the many challenges, tribulations, and joys she and her late husband, Jim, faced over the seven decades of trying to establish a home on the Maine coast.

Plein air painter Timothy Horn loves the look of the late afternoon sun. That much is clear from taking in Horn’s current exhibit of oil paintings, “Timothy Horn: Deep Blue,” at Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor.

Damariscotta painter Will Kefauver currently has a solo exhibit on the walls of the cafe at Rising Tide Co-op. That is a bit of a big deal as Kefauver, who owns and operates Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta and is the president of the Pemaquid Art Gallery Board of Directors, normally exhibits his work alongside that of other artists.

Art students at Wiscasset Middle High School will be exhibiting their creations in the Weaving Project, 64 Main St., Wiscasset, during Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, Sept. 26 from 5-8 p.m. The students, from various grades and working in a variety of mediums, take part in a choice-based art curriculum, which encourages them to experiment, take creative risks, learn basic skills, and develop as creative people.

The new exhibit on the walls of both floors of Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, titled “Points of View,” features the eye-catching photography of Bob Bond and Brad Sevaldson.

Three of the U.S.’s greatest magicians will be gathered on one stage in Midcoast Maine this September, when the Magic Beyond Imagination team arrives to amaze the audience at The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor on Thursday, Sept. 19. The group’s Mental Madness Show will feature Garrett Thomas, Kozmo, and Joe Maxwell.