For the first time, AIA Maine invited another New England chapter of the institute, AIA Vermont, to jury the awards, and will in turn jury that chapter’s awards. For more information about the exhibit, call Judith Harvie of the AIA at 207-623-1218.

The museum’s Lower Gallery houses an exhibit titled Elizabeth Donoff: Two Photographic Promenades: The Villa La Roche-Jeanneret and the Villa Savoye. Through her 1993 images of two influential buildings by the pioneering modernist architect Le Corbusier, Donoff examines how photographs control our perception of architecture. Donoff graduated from Bates in 1989 and holds a master’s degree in architecture from Washington University, in St. Louis.

There is no opening reception for the AIA Maine exhibit. Donoff will give a lecture about her work at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, followed by a reception.

The Bates College Museum of Art is located in the Olin Arts Center at Bates, on Russell Street in Lewiston. It was founded to preserve the nation’s largest repository of Marsden Hartley drawings and other items relating to this important American artist, a Lewiston native. Its other holdings include a robust print collection and notable works by Maine artists with national significance, such as Dahlov Ipcar, the late William Thon, Neil Welliver and Charles Hewitt.

Admission is free. The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun. The museum is closed Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. For additional information, please call 207-786-6158.

Isaacson’s interest in reaching out to children, combined with his ability as a photographer, earned him a Horn Book award for his acclaimed work, Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish, a study of the aesthetics of architecture for young readers. He has also written on the aesthetics of art, including A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art. Isaacson is a frequent lecturer, contributor of essays, and a book reviewer on a variety of art-related subjects.

As an attorney and advocate for the arts, Isaacson has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Lewiston since 1950. He is currently senior partner in the firm of Isaacson & Raymond. His legal career has included roles as president of the Androscoggin County Bar Association, corporation counsel for the City of Lewiston and assistant county attorney for Androscoggin County.

Isaacson earned his bachelor’s degree from Bates College in 1947 and his law degree from Harvard. Known as “the dean of Maine art critics,” he has reviewed for the Maine Sunday Telegram since 1966.