About Us

Preserving your art in the Portland area for over 35 years.

Our designers will listen to your ideas and help guide you towards the perfect design for you art. We know that the art you choose to surround you at work and at home is personal and should reflect who you are and what you want to project. Come in and talk to one of our talented staff. Each of our team members has a unique perspective, but all are knowledgeable and dedicated to the success of your project. If you would like to know more about the designers, read their biographies below to learn more about them.

Our Team

Holly

Holly was raised in northern Maine where picking potatoes was her first job. She graduated from Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Communications. Holly has been framing for 14 years. Her well rounded ability to work all aspects of a framing order, combined with her design skills make her a real asset to Casco Bay Frames and Gallery. Holly is winner of the national "Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper" contest, which brought her to The Today Show and The Ellen Degeneres Show. Her work in multi media collage was recently featured in the book, "Exhibition 36: Mixed Media Demonstrations and Explorations" (Tuttle, 2008). In her spare time she enjoys collecting Pez dispensers and creating stuffed monsters.

Michael Argondizza

Michael has been a part of the CBF & G team since 2010, bringing with him over 15 years of framing and retail experience. Mike is a established artist who prefers to work from nature, although weather permitting will work from his imagination. First exposure to painting was from grandmother Violet Colby, an artist from Wiscasset. Influenced and inspired by Matisse, Monet, Cezanne, Turner, Rothko, Henry Moore, an artistic family, friends and four legged companions. Also sculpts and plays electric bass and guitar. Lives in Deering Center and likes the Boston Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and the New England Patriots.

Matthew Fox Rosler

Matt was born and raised in New York City and moved to Portland in 2005. He has always loved art and museums, especially the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matt is a graduate of Bates College with a BA in Classical and Medieval Studies with a focus in Art History. During his junior year, Matt studied abroad in Rome, Italy and has backpacked around Europe, Africa, and China. He loves Roman portraiture, photography, work on paper, and kinetic sculpture. His artwork focuses on minimalism, mobile making, and woodworking. In his free time, you can find him reading every plaque in a museum and fly fishing with his springer spaniel Millie.

Maya Kuvaja

Maya joined the team in 2016 with 15 years of picture framing experience. Artist Maya Kuvaja uses found, discarded paper ephemera, maps, and vintage book pages to create her collages and mixed media paintings. With a variety of techniques and materials, she blends drawing, painting and collage to create new narratives populated with birds, insects, flora and fauna. Text, printed images, and rescued bits of paper are recontextualized and combined with Maya’s painted and drawn images from memories and dreams to create intuitive stories. Born in Boston ( Maya Amrich ) and raised in the small coastal Maine town of Saco, Kuvaja earned her degree in painting from Maine College of Art in Portland and later moved to Bridgton in rural western Maine. There she creates artwork in her studio in the woods and shares a busy home with husband Jay, two boys, a dog, a goldfish, and many houseplants. A Maine Arts Commission grant recipient, her artwork is shown in galleries and venues in northern New England and collected internationally. -- http://mayakuvaja.yolasite.com/

Katie King

Katie King was born in Topsham and grew up in Kennebunk, Maine. She graduated from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and although she studied Communications, she has a deep love and appreciation for art. Katie received her first film camera as a gift in eighth grade, igniting a love for film photography and sparking her fascination with the darkroom. Although she’s currently leaning into the digital realm, the darkroom remains her first love. Exploring themes of self-concept, identity, and societal norms, Katie aims to capture the intricacies of healing and growth through a fine art lens. Her work has been featured in shows both locally and nationally. Katie originally joined the CBF&G team from 2015 to 2018 and excitedly returned in 2024. When she's not at work, Katie enjoys trail walks with her dog Odin, days spent reading on the beach, and enjoying live music with friends.

Annie Conant

Annie came to Portland from Western Massachusetts. She grew up in Pittsfield and received her BFA in painting from UMass Amherst. Annie describes her painting style as minimalist realism and works with a theme of self-perception. With an abstracted view of the body she particularly focuses on the parts of us we are most visually familiar with: our hands, legs, and feet. She tends to use pastel hues that reflect her own soft and feminine perception of herself. When Annie isn’t painting she is spending time with Thunder, her 10 year old chihuahua mix, or tearing up the dance floor at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge

Charlotte Deming

Charlotte is a North Carolinian transplant, a fiber artist, and a mom to the sweetest corgi around. Her academic background is diverse, including studies of Literature and Art History at Parsons School of Design, nursing and biochemistry at North Carolina Central University, and midwifery at the Midwives College of Utah. She has been doing needlepoint and crochet for 15 years.

Sal Clark

Sal grew up in Portland and first worked at Casco Bay Frames from 2004-2008. Her love for mountains and adventure then led her to Colorado, where she lived for nearly a decade before returning to Maine with her growing family. Sal rejoined the CBF team in 2021. In her free time she enjoys hiking, skiing, art projects with her kids, and playing the clawhammer banjo.

Dan Fink

Dan began framing while studying art in Chicago. He worked for several years in a variety of libraries, archives, and corporate document centers before returning to framing in 2021, when he joined the Casco Bay Frames team. Dan is a papermaker and multimedia artist and lives in Portland.

Rachael Murphy

Rachael, originally from Massachusetts, is a 2022 graduate of the University of Maine Orono, finishing with a BA in Art Education, a BFA in Studio Art, and a minor in Art History. Her studies included an internship with the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor. Rachael has freelance experience documenting and organizing art collections, including the life work of abstract expressionist Harold Garde. She started her journey as a picture framer in 2018 with Liros Gallery in Blue Hill, ME and joined Casco Bay Frames in 2022. In her personal time, she creates intricate woodcut prints and paintings inspired by the impact of human activity on Maine ecosystems. Her favorite artists include Carroll Thayer Berry and Chuck Close, whose styles influence her own artistic language. Her work was exhibited in the University of Maine President’s office and published in the Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability. She enjoys hiking, fishing and bird watching.

Anna Cox

Anna grew up in Bowdoinham and holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Bowdoin College, where she studied Economics and Visual Arts. She has been painting and drawing her whole life and recently has gotten into film photography. Her favorite part of working at the shop is seeing all the unique and beautiful artwork that customers bring in.

Amanda Saker

Amanda is an artist living in Portland. She received her BFA in Game Art & Animation from MECA in 2020. When not creating, Amanda can be found tide pooling, cold dipping in the ocean, or wandering the woods with her dog, Pastrami.