Program areas at Waterville Creates
To enhance the creative and artistic vitality of our community through outstanding arts education and exhibitions and collaborative events and programs. Ticonic gallery + studios includes a versatile exhibition space that presents 4-5 shows per year, a dedicated clay studio that offers a range of classes as well as an open membership program, and a classroom that hosts year-round arts education programs for youth and adults. In 2023, ticonic gallery presented five exhibitions: common threads, youth art month, the great state of illustration in Maine, potluck, and the holiday bazaar.
To educate, entertain, and build community through film. Celebrating the art of cinema and inspiring a love for film, the Maine film center (mfc) offers daily screenings of first-run art house films, hosts numerous special screenings and community events, including free screenings for local schools, and presents the 10-day Maine international film festival (miff) in july.
To enhance quality of life and build community through the performing arts. The 810-seat Waterville opera house presents live theatre, dance, concerts, and educational programming for audiences of all ages. In 2023, the Waterville opera house (woh) produced four plays, including the play that goes wrong, rock of ages, murder on the orient express, and elf, the musical. In addition, woh hosted 3 school shows, 3 weeks of theatre camp, and 30 live performances, including macy gray, lyle lovett and leo kottke, whitney cummings, david sedaris, blues traveler, the glenn miller orchestra, and whose live anyway?