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Alma Thomas, “The Eclipse,” 1970, one of the luminous abstractions in “Composing Color: Paintings By Alma Thomas,” Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Any preview of an art scene as bountiful as Maine’s is going to be incomplete. But one important anchor for this fall is a celebration of Alison Hildreth initiated by Speedwell Projects in Portland.

Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960. In 1933, Alexander Calder moved from Paris to Roxbury, Connecticut, and so began a Modernist renaissance in the state.

Color and creativity abound at Lake Superior College during the fall art show. About 275 students are displaying their art this week in the main concourse. Some of the pieces are even up for sale.