Publications

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE

  • This catalog is comprised of a packet that includes an exhibition catalog and accompanying artists' scores.
  • Designed by PATH | Samantha Haedrich
  • Available for US$ 18.00 plus shipping.

Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan

  • Full-color, 96-page catalogue, includes a conversation with the artists and a sketchbook section that provides insight into their practice.
  • Edited by ICA Director, Julie Poitras Santos with essays by Poitras Santos and curator J.R. Uretsky
  • Designed by PATH | Samantha Haedrich 
  • Available for US$ 18.00 plus shipping.

...to unravel the bind: 2020 MECA&D Faculty Triennial

  • Full-color, 14-page exhibition catalog, designed by Margo Halverson
  • Featuring an essay by Juror Ellen Y. Tani.
  • Newspaper Club printing (11"x 15")
  • Available for US$ 5.00 plus shipping.

Darkness and the Light, 2019

  • Full-color, 72-page exhibition catalog, designed by PATH | Samantha Haedrich
  • Featuring essays by Stuart Kestenbaum and Curator Lissa Hunter
  • Available for US$ 15.00 plus shipping.

Drawing Now, 2019

  • Full-color, 48-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways, 2018

Curious Nature: Alumni Triennial, 2018

  • Full-color, 46-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes, 2018

  • Full-color, 46-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

Off the Wall, 2018

  • Full-color, 24-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

Confabulations of Millennia, 2017

  • Full-color, 50-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

American Genre: Contemporary Painting, 2017

  • Full-color, 108-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 18.00 plus shipping.

Bounty: Faculty Triennial, 2016

  • Full-color, 26-page exhibition catalog
  • Available for US$ 10.00 plus shipping.

A Meticulous Ferment: Beth Lipman and Kirsten Hassenfeld, 2010

  • Exhibition catalog.
  • Available for US$ 7.00 plus shipping.

Archaeology Above Ground, 2010

  • Exhibition catalog
  • Published by Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary
    Art. A 15-page catalog with an essay by Kristine Woods; full color
    installation photography.
  • Available for US$ 7.00 plus shipping.

Out There, 2009

  • Exhibition catalog
  • Published by Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary
    Art. 15-page catalog with an essay by Patricia C. Phillips; full color
    installation photography.
  • Available for US$ 7.00 plus shipping.

Ruminant, 2008

  • Exhibition catalog
  • Published by Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary
    Art. 13-page catalog with an essay by Nadine Wasserman; full color install
    photography.
  • Available for US$ 7.00 plus shipping.

Revisioning Portland, 2008

  • Exhibition catalog
  • Published by Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary
    Art. 31-page catalog with essays by Michelle Taylor-Harris and Mark
    Klett; full color photography.
  • Available for US$ 7.00 plus shipping.

Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium, 2003

  • Published by MIT Press
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • London, England
  • Edited by Mark H. C. Bessire and Designed by MECA&D faculty Margo Halverson & Charles Melcher of Alice Design Communications.
  • The exhibition: "Wenda Gu: Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium" is organized by a consortium of art colleges, including The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, and will be on display at the ICA at MECA&D June 21-October 3, 2004.
  • Available for US$ 29.95 plus shipping.

William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America, 2002

  • Published by MIT Press
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • London, England
  • Edited by Mark H. C. Bessire and Designed by MECA&D faculty Margo Halverson & Charles Melcher of Alice Design Communications
  • This book, which accompanies a nationally touring exhibition of Pope.L's work, explores his impact on American art and culture. It contains sections on practices, body, performance, dialogue, consumption, and a selection of the artist's writings and a chronology. The essays are by Mark H. C. Bessire, C. Carr, Geoffrey Hendricks, Stuart Horodner, Lowery Stokes Sims, Kristine Stiles, and Martha Wilson.
  • Available for U.S. $24.95 plus shipping.

Translation/Seduction/Displacement: Post- Conceptual and Photographic Work by Artists from South Africa

  • Exhibition Catalogue
  • Published by Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, Me: Institute of Contemporary Art and Fer Inc.
  • Edited by Lauri Firstenberg and John Peffer
  • Essays by Rory Bester, Santu Mofokeng, John Peffer, and Lauri Firstenberg; 47 pages, black and white images.
  • Available for US $15.00 plus shipping.

Someday: Robert Farber: A Retrospective

  • Exhibition Catalogue
  • Published by Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • Essays by Carl Belz, Robert Rosenblum, and Robert Storr; checklist of exhibition; color, 72 pages.
  • Available for US $15.00 plus shipping.

Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé

  • Published by MIT Press and edited by Mark H.C. Bessire and Lauri Firstenberg with an interview by Okwui Enwezor.
  • Essays by Aimee Bessire, Lauri Firstenberg, Kobena Mercer, Valerie Steele and Iké Udé.
  • In color with 185 pages.
  • Available for US$ 14.95 plus shipping.

Rez Williams: Steel Walls and Waterlines, 1999

  • Exhibition brochure.
  • Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary Art. Eight-page fold-out brochure with essay by Mark H.C. Bessire; exhibition checklist; nine black-and-white images.
  • Available for US$ 5.00 plus shipping.

Flow Thru Out, 1999

  • Exhibition brochure.
  • Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary Art. Six-page fold-out brochure with essays by Mark H.C. Bessire and Sasha M. White; four black-and-white images.
  • Available for US$ 5.00 plus shipping.

The Art of Reading: Books and Non-Books, 1999

  • Exhibition brochure.
  • Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary Art.
    Eight-page fold-out brochure with essay by Sasha M. White; exhibition checklist; seven black-and-white images.
  • Available for US$ 5.00 plus shipping.

Omnium Gatherum: An Installation by Lucy Mitchell, 1999

  • Exhibition catalogue.
  • Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary Art. 32-page catalogue with essays by Aimee H.C. Bessire and Mark H.C. Bessire; exhibition checklist; nine black-and-white images.
  • Available for US$ 8.00 plus shipping.

Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, 1997

  • Exhibition brochure.
  • Maine College of Art & Design, Portland ME: Institute of Contemporary Art.
    Twelve-page fold-out brochure with essay by France Morin; five color images.
  • Available for US$ 5.00 plus shipping.