SPACE is located at 534-538 Congress Street in Portland, Maine.
The 538 entrance is used for most events.
The 536 entrance is for private use of our studio building.
The 534 entrance is for gallery visitation during gallery hours.
Events
- The venue’s 538 Congress Street doors open a half hour before program start time, unless otherwise noted.
- Please familiarize yourself with our Safer SPACE Policy for audience agreements that is posted publicly in our venue by the entrance and bathrooms, and is available for reference here.
- SPACE’s venue and restrooms are ADA compliant, please email info@space538.org for any accessibility questions or for any interpretive accessibility requests (ideally a full week before the event).
- No flash photography by audience members is permitted at SPACE events. When artists request no photography, SPACE will communicate this with the audience and appreciate your advance cooperation.
- Please silence cell phones during all SPACE performances, screenings, talks, and programs.
Exhibitions
- When visiting our exhibitions during open gallery hours (typically Thursday and Friday 12-6pm and Saturday 12-4pm), please use the 534 Congress Street entrance unless otherwise marked. Visit the exhibition page to make sure we have an exhibition inside the gallery on view.
- Window Gallery exhibitions are viewable 24/7 from the street.
- Unless otherwise marked, please assume the art is neither thirsty nor hungry, and is not made to be touched. We deeply appreciate you not actively eating or drinking while looking at the art, and not touching the work.
- Unless otherwise marked, all works can be photographed. We strongly encourage you to credit or tag the artist (and SPACE!) if you are sharing their work.
