The Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly

Original Art and News from Maine’s Community of Visual Artists

Winter 2026: Words and Images

In this issue of the Maine Arts Journal, contributors share their work and thoughts on the theme of Words and Images, engaging with the question of why visual artists would put words in their works, their motivations, and their purpose for doing so. Why would one want to combine the visual and the verbal, two modes of expression that are fundamentally different? As our contributors ponder these questions, they explore the creative process, and evoke action and contemplation, intuitive spontaneity and thoughtful reflection, artist and work, message and medium.

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Featured work from The Winter 2026 Issue of the Maine Arts Journal