PhoenixNest Design

06/05/2026

06/05/2026

Tonight! 🎉🌈 Come see our group show during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk, 4-7pm, featuring Roger Barry, Sandi Lemmerman, and Ann Rhinehardt! Gallery opens at 11am for those who can’t wait! 🥰

06/05/2026

Keynote!! 🌈
René (Ré) Goddess is a Somatic Abolitionist, multidisciplinary performance artist, and Founder of The Ensemble of Color and Embodied Equity, a q***r, Black, South African, three-time award-winning Indigenous woman born in Johannesburg and raised on Wabanaki Territory since age six. For over three decades, Ré has been building liberatory worlds at the intersection of embodied healing, gender justice, anti-racist activism, and community transformation. one gorgeous, freely moving, delicious body at a time.

As a classically trained ballet dancer, choreographer, playwright, director, and Embodied Equity Consultant, Ré centers the stories of Black, Brown, Indigenous,  global majority people, on stage and off, refusing tokenization and demanding full, embodied humanity. She co-founded Theater Ensemble of Color in 2014, which has grown from an 8-person company into a celebrated New England institution known for original, sold-out productions and deep educational outreach.

Ré commissioned and co-directed The Last Girl a memory play by the late Dianne “dee” Clarke, survivor advocate and founder of Survivor Speak USA, based on Clarke’s testimony about s*x trafficking to the Maine Human Rights Commission. This deeply important work, developed over five years in collaboration with former Portland Poet Laureate Maya Williams, had its world premiere through Portland Ovations in October 2022, nearly a year to the day Clarke transitioned to the ancestral realm. It played before nearly 500 people.

Her practice lives in the body. Ré founded the Embodied Equity Play Tools a four-and-a-half-year training system for self-activism in anti-racism and re-indigenization now in wide use across stolen Wabanaki land, building pathways toward Black, Brown, Indigenous liberation. She has performes her one-woman show g e e l weaving dance, song, and storytelling in English and Afrikaans, for thousands of multigenerational audience members across the Eastern US. She is a National Arts Strategies Fellow, a Maine Initiatives Spotlight Grantee, an Equality Maine Out Front Leadership Award recipient, and was named one of Portland Monthly’s Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine 2018.

06/02/2026

06/01/2026

05/30/2026

✨🎨 FIRST FRIDAY IN NORWAY IS BACK! 🎨✨
Mark your calendars for June 5 and get ready to explore the downtown heart of creativity!

Come out for an evening packed with incredible local art, inspiring artists, and delicious treats, the perfect way to kick off your summer vibes. 🌞

What’s happening:
• Main Street Gallery (4–7 pm): Featuring artist Mitch Benedict
• Western Maine Art Group at the Matolcsy Arts Center (5–7 pm): Exhibit “Go Figure” + light refreshments
• Fiber & Vine (5–7 pm): 13-Year Celebration! Wine tasting + tote bag giveaway
• The HILLS Recovery Center (5–7 pm): Exhibits: “See the Person” & “Snapshots of Change” + BBQ, music & yard games
• The Woods Maine Shop (Open until 7 pm): Sweatshirt giveaway

Whether you’re an art lover, a curious explorer, or just in it for the snacks (no judgment!), there’s something for everyone.
✨ Come celebrate creativity
✨ Support local artists
✨ Connect with your community

Bring friends, wander the galleries, and get inspired—we can’t wait to see you there!

05/30/2026

Sometimes when a painting takes on a life of its own (and for me, it usually does but some are just more surprising than others) I have to sit with it for a while. I’m currently at the “is it done” phase of the process 😉 and also “is this a mini-series”?! ❤️‍🔥

Encaustic, Print of Vintage Doily, pigment, shellac, India Ink, Alcohol Ink (everything but the kitchen sink 🤣

05/29/2026

05/29/2026