The Messler Gallery

Music stand by Chris Becksvoort

The mission of the Messler Gallery is to advance wood craftsmanship as a vibrant medium of expression. As an educational forum, the gallery enables students and the public to view work by faculty and other accomplished woodworkers firsthand; it hosts public lectures by instructors and visiting artists; and it offers exhibition experience to students and Studio Fellows.

As the only venue in Maine dedicated to the year-round exhibition of studio furniture and wood art, the Messler Gallery provides much-needed exposure for regional furniture makers, turners, and carvers.

We invite you to visit the Messler Gallery Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm, and Saturdays from 10am-4pm.

Current Exhibition

Maine Wood 2012

December 2, 2011 - April 6, 2012

Traveling Exhibitions

In order to serve a broader audience, the Messler Gallery travels exhibitions to museums and nonprofit galleries across the country. “Boxes and Their Makers,” for example, opened here in 2009 and traveled to the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts in 2010. In 2011 it travels to the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin. In 2012 it will be presented at the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. “Boxes” is sponsored in part by IRWIN Tools and Accessories, while Fox Chapel Publishing has publlished a handsome companion book titled New Masters of the Wooden Box: Expanding the Boundaries of Box Making.