NEEDLEPOINT 173 PORT ROAD KENNEBUNK, MAINE 04043 (207) 967 - 4900 EMAIL: NEEDLEPOINTBOSS@AOL.COM WEB: NEEDLEPOINTAMERICA s e p t e m B e r 2 0 1 8 8 7 to your eccentric aunt’s kitchen.” A recent show demonstrates this. “Portland artist Dave Cray did a daddy/daughter collabora- tive. He started the canvas, then asked his two-year-old to paint next or tell him what to paint in. Two little girls and their parents loved the painting. It had elephants, bal- loons, and was very colorful and whimsical. Admiring it each visit, when the show came down, they bought it ($400) for their beach house.” Brokering the sales, Cooper’s com- mission is a small 10 percent. “This is not about the money for us,” she says. n view at Bonobo in Portland through September 9 is anoth- er family collaboration–by Lau- ren Almarode and Sandi Lemmerman, a mother-and-daughter team. A small mag- ical painting, Mountain Landscape, cre- ated by nine-year-old granddaughter Bela Almarode, is included. Offered $100 for it by a smitten buyer at the opening, Bela de- clined. “I like having the painting with me,” she says. Union Restaurant at the Press Hotel hosts openings of quarterly exhibits on its lower floors–a designated, well-designed space. Curated by Erin Hutton, director of programming at MECA, the works are not officially for sale by Press Hotel, but Carla