Sterling Allen: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-06-18 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Sterling Allen
Sterling Allen, Frozen Sculptures (in situ), 2017, Wood, paint, found object
Monday, June 18, 5:30pm
Sterling Allen holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He is a co-founder and co-director of Okay Mountain, an artist collective and former gallery based in Austin, Texas. As a solo artist and in collaboration with the group, he has exhibited, organized, and completed projects at venues throughout the United States and received several residencies including the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program in San Antonio, Texas. He has exhibited at numerous venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, and VOLTA NY. He has been twice nominated for an Art Matters Grant and was recently awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation Residency for 2019. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.

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Faythe Levine: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-06-25 17:30 - 18:30 | ME
Faythe Levine
Faythe Levine; photo courtesy of Jacob Jennings, 2016
Monday, June 25, 5:30pm
Faythe Levine is the assistant curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Her curatorial vision and creative practice are focused on themes of community, creativity, awareness, process, empowerment and documentation. She has made it a priority that her projects stay approachable and accessible to a large audience, interacting with people in a way that establishes creativity as a vehicle towards personal independence.
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Collect: Summer Art Sale
2018-06-28 10:00 - 18:00, 2018-06-29 10:00 - 18:00, 2018-06-30 10:00 - 18:00 | ME

Kris Grey: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-02 17:30 - 18:30 | ME
Kris Grey
Kris Grey, Untitled (performance with torso cast from 2009), 2012, image courtesy theartist and Loise O’Rourke
Monday, July 2, 5:30pm
Kris Grey is a New York City based gender-queer artist whose cultural work includes curatorial projects, performance, writing, and studio production. Grey earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Ohio University. They perform, teach, and exhibit work internationally. Grey was a Fire Island Artist Residency recipient, a resident artist for the ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art in Kupoio, Finland, and a teaching artist at The International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts in Brussels, Belgium. In addition to their individual practice, Grey collaborates with Maya Ciarrocchi under the moniker Gender/Power. Gender/Power has been awarded a Baryshnikov Art Center residency, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency, a Franklin Furnace grant, and a MAP Fund Grant. Recent curatorial projects include Queer Objectivity at the University of Maryland, MIX NYC Experimental Film and Performance Festival, and the Queer Culture Performance and Lecture Series at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Grey's writing has been published in print and on the web for Huffington Post and Original Plumbing. Their latest writing, Trans*feminism: fragmenting and re-reading the history of art through a trans* perspective, written in collaboration with Jennie Klein, was published in Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories.
Header: Kris Grey, Scene from Body Dialectic, 2017, performance documentation, image courtesy the artist and Jacob Tekiela, Warehouse9-IPAF17
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Tad Beck: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-09 17:30 - 18:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Tad Beck
Tad Beck, 042417, 2017, 36x36", Archival Pigment Prints
Monday, July 9, 5:30pm
Tad Beck received a B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1991, and an M.F.A. in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, in 2003. He lives and works in Vinalhaven, Maine.
Beck’s solo exhibitions include: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica; Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York; Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland; and Grant Wahlquist Gallery. Recent two-person exhibitions include collaborative works made with the artist Jennifer Locke at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California, and an exhibition with Diana Cherbuliez at Theodore: Art, Brooklyn. Group exhibitions include: Fotofest International, Houston; CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm; Spritmuseum, Stockholm; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; the Ogunquit Museum of Art, Maine; Apex Art, New York; Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York; Debs & Co., New York; Castelli Gallery, New York; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; and Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles. His work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, LACMA, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Worcester Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Emily Fisher Landau.
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Kathy Bradford: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-16 17:30 - 18:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Kathy Bradford
Kathy Bradford, Fathers, 2013-2016, acrylic on drop cloth, 70x96"
Monday, July 16, 5:30pm
Painter Katherine Bradford's cast of characters–ships, swimmers, superheroes–are often caught mid-motion, floating, flying and drifting against bold brushstrokes and luminous fields of color. Bradford conjures her symbolic imagery including red skies and archetypal figures from an economy of intuitive and primitive marks. Her lush, painterly surfaces merge abstraction with figuration in a highly personal way to describe, not form, but feeling. The paintings flicker and glow with a strange phosphorescent light that suggest deep, dark dreams and a hazy space between reality and imagination. Consistent throughout the work is the suggestion of new frontiers and failed journeys. Humanistic and intense, Bradford's paintings explore the infinite through color, shape, and symbol and are, in turns, humorous, epic, emotional and vulnerable.
Her works have been exhibited at MoMA PS 1 in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and Philadelphia's University of the Arts. She has been honored with an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Text courtesy of Adams and Ollman.
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Caroline Wells Chandler: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Caroline Wells Chandler
Caroline Wells Chandler, The Best Little Whore House in Texas, 2015-2016, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wednesday, July 18, 5:30pm
Caroline Wells Chandler’s brightly colored hand-crocheted works explore notions of queerness and sexuality as well as the art historical canon. His characters are radically queer, and his representations of gender declare queerness as the normative state. Chandler completed his foundation studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and received his BFA cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 2007. He has shown at numerous institutions including: Roberto Paradise (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Lord Ludd (PA), Art League Houston (TX), Zurcher Studio (NY), Field Projects (NY), Vox Populi (PA), Sanctuary (PA), N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (MI), Open Gallery (TN), and the Stieglitz Museum (‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) among others. Chandler is a 2011 MFA recipient in painting at the Yale School of Art where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. He lives and works in New York. Text courtesy of MaakeMagazine.
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Dario Robleto: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-23 17:30 - 18:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Dario Robleto
Dario Robleto, The Sun Remembers Your Shadow, 2012, cyanotypes of amateur astronomers’ planetary photographs, watercolor paper, curly maple, gold-mirrored Plexiglas, linseed oil, brass
Monday, July 23, 5:30pm
Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at the Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2011). His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab, Krista Tippet's On Being, and the New York Times. In 2008 a 10-year survey exhibition, Alloy of Love, was organized by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. Accompanied by a major monograph, Alloy of Love traveled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.
Notable group shows include Prospect 4: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, LA (2017); Explode Every Day: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2016); SITE: 20 Years/20 Shows, SITE Santa Fe, NM(2015); Nouveau Festival 5th Edition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2014); The Record/Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2011); The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2008); and Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2004).
Header image
Dario Robleto, American Seabed 3 (cropped)
Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Visiting Artist Series. The MFA program brings a national and international roster of artists, curators, and scholars to deliver public lectures, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with graduate candidates during their week-long stays in Portland, Maine.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
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Listing of all 'Traces' Events (107): Fall 2018
2018-09-08 08:00 - 2018-12-31 17:00 | ME

Jason De León: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Jason De León: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, October 4, 2018; 12–1pm
Osher Hall, Porteous Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Jason De Leon, A wall of nearly 800 backpacks left behind a the Mexico-US border; Photographer: Marc Tatti
Jason De León is an anthropologist whose multidisciplinary approach to the study of migration from Latin America to the United States is bringing to light the lives and deaths of clandestine migrants crossing the U.S.–Mexico border into the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He combines ethnographic analysis of migrant stories, forensic science, and archaeological research in his efforts to understand this process—who makes the journey, the routes, the means of survival and manner of death—and the human consequences of immigration policy.
The Undocumented Migration Project uses a combination of ethnographic and archaeological approaches to understand various aspects of unauthorized border crossings including the many forms of violence and suffering that characterize the process, the distinct experiences of migrant sub-populations (e.g., women, children, LGBT, non-Mexican nationals), and the evolving material culture associated with crossing.

Traces | Exhibition: VR Pop-up: At the Periphery | @ MECA&D
2018-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Virtual reality filmmakers Daniel Quintanilla and UnitedYES, working with the Yarn Corporation, will be in the gallery to share At the Periphery, a virtual experience that explores the often paradoxical idea of "visibility" as it relates to the immigrant experience. In this virtual journey, one is transported to spaces occupied temporarily or permanently by immigrant communities in Maine: a seasonal blueberry camp, a community farm organized by refugees, a takeout restaurant.
This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

Traces | READING: Refuge Malja ملجأ | @ MECA&D
2018-10-18 17:00 - 17:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A reading from Refuge Malja ملجأ by Bess Welden with Arabic translation by Ali Al
Mshakheel. A scene from the play Refuge Malja ملجأ will be read in English and Arabic.
Portland Stage will present Refuge Malja ملجأ as a full lenth production October 30 –
November 18, 2018. Short discussion regarding the play to follow.
This reading will be hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Closing Reception | Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction
2018-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 | ME
Closing Reception: Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction Oct. 19, 5–7pm
Abstract painter translates Rolling Stones, Beatles, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix songs into visual experiences
Dedicated to using music and art as a gateway to learning, the Bob Crewe Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is exhibiting Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction July 13 through October 19. The pieces are on loan from the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York.
British-born, Las Vegas-based Bavington uses a unique system of pairing musical notes with specific hues of color to represent some of his favorite rock and roll songs of the sixties and seventies. Music by the Rolling Stones, Cream, the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix form the foundation of his work. Among the songs depicted in the exhibition are “Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix, “Kansas City” by the Beatles, “A Kind of Magic” by Queen, “Secret Agent” by Chick Corea, “(back to) Black (addicted)” by Amy Winehouse, and “Let My Love Open The Door” by Pete Townsend.
“Tim Bavington’s work offers an innovative way to deconstruct music into color and form,” said guest curator Jaime DeSimone. “He uses bright, vividly colored stripes to represent the musical notes in the base lines, rhythms, and string solos of each song.” DeSimone previously organized Synthesize: Art + Music for the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.
“Bridging the disciplines of both art and music, Tim Bavington’s intimate drawings alongside large-scale abstract paintings help to cultivate creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression, all goals of the Bob Crewe Gallery,” said Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, MECA&D.
Free and open to the public. A closing reception and opportunity to meet the artist will be held on Friday, October 19 at 5–7pm.

About the Bob Crewe Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design
Named after the legendary record producer, songwriter and artist Bob Crewe (1930-2014), the Bob Crewe Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design presents the work of Bob Crewe and explores the connections between music and visual arts by contemporary local, national and international artists.
Contact
Sue McGovern
​smcgovern@meca.edu
(781) 315-3400

Traces | VR Pop-up: At the Periphery #2 | @ MECA&D
2018-10-25 17:00 - 19:00 | ME

Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Eric Gottesman: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, November 1, 2018; 6–7pm
Porteous Building, Osher Hall, Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Eric Gottesman, For Freedoms Super PAC
Eric Gottesman is a photographic artist, teacher, and activist. Since 1999 he has been working in and around the Middle East and Africa collaborating with communities to produce photographs and videos that often challenge preexisting images and perceptions of a culture and/or place as well as the concept of singular artistic authorship.
His current collaborative project For Freedoms, is the first artist-run Super PAC. Starting in January 2016 with Gottesman’s co-founder Hank Willis Thomas to encourage new forms of public critical discourse. The medium for this project is American democracy, the "readymade" is the Super PAC (a federal designation for organizations that raise money for "political speech"), and the mission is to forge more transparent and representative forms of political discourse.

Traces | SYMPOSIUM: Art + Politics | @ MECA&D
2018-11-02 09:30 - 17:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday November 8, 2018. 12–1pm
Porteous Building, Osher Hall, second floor

Meredith Host was born and raised in Detroit Rock City and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2001. Meredith has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including The School for American Crafts at RIT in Rochester, NY, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory in Dresden, Germany. At Watershed, Meredith was the 2005 Salad Days Artist where she designed and produced 500 salad plates for their annual fundraiser. In 2008, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from The Ohio State University . In 2011, Meredith was named one of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artists as well as one of the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists. Meredith lives in Kansas City, MO where she is a full time studio potter. She is a core member of the Kansas City Urban Potters.
Funded through the generous support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Header Photography: Jason Bradbury; courtesy of the artist

Traces | MUSIC + POETRY: Culture + Displacement | @ MECA&D
2018-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Traces | FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | @ MECA&D
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Traces | PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | @ MECA&D
2018-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, November 29, 2018; 6–7pm
Osher Hall, Porteous Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Ranu Mukherjee, Cracks, 2017, pigment and milk paint on paper on panel 75 x 51 inches (190.5 x 129.5 cm)
Ranu Mukherjee makes bodies of work and large scale installations by combining drawing, painting and print on fabric or paper alongside video, animation and choreography. Her work is marked by a deliberate use of saturated color, layering or collision of time frames,fragmentation and sensuality. Her art evokes questions of visibility, abstraction and the illusion of knowing, intensified by the algorithmic distribution of news images and information. In recent projects, she explores the present as a confluence of tension between colonial legacy and indigenous power, and ways that the colonized speak to the future. Her elemental treatment of landscape embodies the force of otherness; of the hybrid, the diasporic and the speculative.
“There is cultural time and there is material time. The body connects to both.” Shadowtime - Ranu Mukherjee

Traces | FILM + FOOD: Recipe Film Screening + Community Dinner | @ MECA&D
2018-11-30 16:30 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

In Her Presence Cooking Video & Tasting Event
2018-11-30 16:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Culinary Talents of Immigrant Women to Be Showcased in Cooking Videos Screening and Food Tasting on November 30
The public event is a collaboration of In Her Presence and Maine College of Art & Design
On Friday, November 30, 4:30-5pm, cooking videos of seven immigrant women preparing their most treasured recipes will be screened at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D), Osher Hall, 2nd floor, 522 Congress Street, Portland. A tasting of the dishes in the videos will follow from 5–7 pm. On hand will be the immigrant women who participated in the project - a partnership of the In Her Presence non-profit and MECA&D - and the MECA&D student filmmakers who made the videos. The screening and tasting event is open to all members of the public.
“Maine College of Art & Design appreciates the opportunity to partner with In Her Presence, which is doing so much to empower women and girls from minority communities in Maine,” said Amelia Garretson- Persans, MECA&D project faculty advisor. “We encourage the Portland community to join us on November 30th to get to know the chefs behind the recipes, experience their delicious dishes, and gain insight into cultures from all over the world.”
Claudette Ndayininahaze, co-founder with Abusana Micky Bondo, In Her Presence, said, “We are thrilled to be able to share the talents of some of the remarkable women from In Her Presence. We hope this series will help them raise their visibility in the community and achieve their personal ambitions.”
Among the chefs and recipes showcased in the videos are Yolande Matoko Makaba, a resident of Portland, who came to Maine in 2016 from The Republic of the Congo. In the video, she prepares crème brûlée and crêpes, which she describes as the “most requested recipes within the realm of desserts,” and “simple and small, but very delicious.” Yolande trained professionally in the French pastry arts back home and has worked in grand hotels and restaurants. She hopes to someday use her skills professionally in the U.S. Other dishes featured in the videos include fish, brochette (BBQ skewers), and desserts from countries such as Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, and Angola.
Each year, Maine College of Art & Design partners with a local nonprofit organization on a public engagement project designed to benefit the community.
For updates on the project, visit inherkitchen.org or follow them on Instagram (@in.her.kitchen).
To RSVP to the screening and tasting (RSVP recommended) email inherkitchenofficial@gmail.com. There is a suggested donation of $10 for this event.
About In Her Presence
In Her Presence is created by and for women from minority communities in Maine. Through increased educational opportunities and providing access to knowledge through high level training, the nonprofit’s goal is to empower more women and girls to reduce systems of inequity, to advocate for themselves and their families, understand, analyze and assess the impact of racial injustices and learn tools to combat inequities. (www.inherpresence.org)

Traces | CONVERSATION + FOOD: The History of Chinese in Maine | @ MECA&D
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
While there has been a relatively small population of Chinese residents of Maine over the years, those who have settled here have made their mark, dating back to the first Chinese immigrant who came in 1857. Come hear some stories about these early Chinese Mainers, and also enjoy some Chinese tea and snacks, sponsored by the Chinese & American Friendship Association of Maine.

This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Traces | CONVERSATION + FOOD: The History of Chinese in Maine | @ MECA&D
2018-12-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Making Migration Visible | Yu-Wen Wu: Gallery Talk | @ MECA&D
2018-12-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways featured artist Yu-Wen Wu will discuss her artwork in the galleries, describing the research processes and community practices that contribute to her work. Following her talk, the artist will lead a workshop in conjunction with her Leavings/Belongings series. Leavings/Belongings is comprised of multitudes of cloth wrapped bundles representing all that is left behind– home, family, possessions and what may be carried in migration–survival, hope, dreams. In the tradition of gathering to make things and tell stories, this workshop invites participation in the making of bundles and the sharing of stories.
This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Drawing Now: Exhibition
2019-01-17 11:00 - 2019-03-22 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Drawing Now
On view from January 17–March 22, 2019
Exhibition Opening: Friday, February 1, 2019, 5:00–8:00pm
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design
ICA Gallery hours: Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm, Thurs, 11:00am–7:00pm, Friday, 11:00am–5:00pm, (FFAW until 8:00pm)
This exhibition is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Director of Exhibitions, Erin Hutton and co-curated by Bruce Brown and Munira Naqui.
Drawing Now celebrates the works by artists of the Drawing Collective and three guest artists. With its members hailing from eleven countries, the Drawing Collective’s objective is to maintain the development of an international aesthetic. The common denominator uniting these artists is the practice of drawing.
Descendants of Bauhaus, De Stijl, Réalities Nouvelles and Art Concret their works represent a contemporary continuum of research in the formal purity of abstraction. The core of the Drawing Collective lies in the inter-connectivity of artists separated by geographical, linguistic and cultural barriers. Devoted to the exploration of new strategies and methods, their works expand upon a rich intellectual and aesthetic history of abstract drawing.
Following Paris and Sydney, Drawing Now at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design in Portland, Maine is the Drawing Collective's first exhibition in the United States.
Bruce Brown and Munira Naqui, Guest Curators
Artist Biographies
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Wahida Azhari (Germany) A Hamburg-based artist, Azhari is inspired by the relationships between space, emptiness and light.
Louise Blyton (Australia) A reductive artist experimenting with light and form, Blyton explores the fragility of beauty through subtle shifts of light and shadow.
Christine Boiry (France) Boiry’s work comes from the study of color, material and movement to create a minimal space, in search of rhythm, emptiness and light.
Anne Brochot (France) Brochot’s work is influenced by the geometrical patterns, materials and tools of architecture, as well as the organic structures of the countryside.
Liz Davidson (Canada) Davidson’s drawings are not preparatory sketches for other works. They are studies of light and shadow observed through the seasons in her studio in rural Quebec.
Elena Dombrovska (Ukraine) Dombrovska uses the line as a structural and form producing element to reflect on the aesthetics of geometric forms.
Clint Fulkerson (USA) Fulkerson is a graduate of the Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D). Fulkerson’s work features complex patterns and forms made by an accumulation of hand drawn marks. His art is influenced by science, mathematics and information technology, as well as an innate curiosity about the fundamental aspects of existence.
André Geertse (Netherlands) Geertse’s work is inspired by his time spent on the North Sea Coast of the Netherlands with the spectacle of sea, light and air. The work reflects a strength of color, space and light.
Ellen Golden (USA) Golden’s drawings flow from an intuitive and emotional response to the natural world. Her drawings are products of a very focused meditative process.
Barbara Halnan (Australia) Halnan, a multimedia artist believes drawing is essential to her art-making. Her fine line drawings on paper reference the flatness of the dry lake bed .of Menindee in NSW - the distant horizon, the sky and the colors of the local vegetation, sand and earth.
Daniel G. Hill (USA) A multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in sculpture, installation, painting, and digital media, Hill focuses on the works construction and its physical presence that gives rise to self reflective viewing ito remind us of our capacity to wonder. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Parsons School of Design in NYC and is the President of American Abstract Artists.
Erdem Kucuk-Koroglu (Turkey) Having a master’s degree in mathematics has greatly influenced Kucuk-Koroglu’s artwork, which he describes as geometric abstract paintings.

Emma Langridge (Australia) Landridge, who considers herself primarily a painter, applies the same strict practice used in her paintings in her drawings. She uses everyday materials, strictly controlled procedures, and a reliance on millimeter increments with allowance for irregularities.
Danielle Lescot (France) Lescot is a painter, ceramist and sculptor who lives and works in Paris. Lescot”s drawings are results of a daily exploration of color and form in her studio.
Jean-Luc Manguin (France) The basis of Manquin’s art work is the square, a quadrilateral figure that is a surface to divide evenly, a checker board space to fill, or an element to build into a grid.
Marilyn Chapin Massey (France) Passionate about color, Massey’s work is inspired by the colors and shapes of urban areas, such as New York and Paris. Massey”s recent drawings use non color as she continues to experiment with the underground transportation web.
Munira Naqui (USA) The Drawing Collective founder Naqui, born in Bangladesh came to the USA in 1982 after studying in Moscow. She lives in Portland and works from her studio in New Gloucester. For Naqui, drawing is a meditative exercise that follows the manner of Tibetan mandalas, always focusing on the process to reach clarity of thought.
Michael Perlbach (Germany) A visual artist who uses a drawing technique he calls “dissolution”, Perlbach’s drawings are assembled from tiny structures sometimes not distinguishable from simple dots.
Marion Piper ( UK) Drawing and painting are increasingly indivisible activities in Piper’s studio. Each sets the stage for the other and creates space for an improvised performance in both the manufacture and the content of the work. Colour, materials and surface form part of the plot.
Tineke Porck (Netherlands) The nature of Porck’s art is abstract, minimal and has interfaces with constructivism, zero and minimal art. She uses a basic language of form - lines, points, crosses and surfaces – and sober colors, such as shades of grey, white and black.
Grieteke Roosma (France) Roosma pursued drawing and photography after earlier careers in education and fashion design. A keen observer of nature and different cultures, her drawings are abstract studies greatly influenced by the physical and emotional world.
Diane Scott (New Zealand) A sculptor, Scott uses sculpture to inform her drawings through their shared concerns of space, illusion, materiality and light. She employs different media for her drawings that push the boundaries of traditional drawings.

Jamel Sghaier (Germany) After serving in the Merchant Marines, Tunis-born Sghaier, became a self-taught visual artist. His work is inspired by pure abstractions of forms. He currently lives and works in Tunisia and Germany.
Bogumila Strojna (France) A sculptor born in Poland Strojna lives and works in Paris.She has used drawing as a sketching tool, as well as a point of departure to develop independent works.
Truong Thanh (Vietnam) Thanh focuses his work on the use of three-dimensional geometry, inspired by constructivist and minimalist art. His drawings are based on the structures of objects and their response to forces.
Richard van der Aa (France) Born in New Zealand, van der Aa lives and works in Paris. He is the founder of ParisCONCRET. The works on paper van der Aa is presenting in Drawing Now are indicative of the lexicon of reduced but evocative forms the artist has been employing over many years in his exploration of the limits of minimalism and formal abstraction.
Wilma Vissers (Netherlands) A Dutch visual artist who is inspired by emptiness and space, Vissers believes spatiality and infinite space must be present even in the smallest work.

Participating artists also include the following guest artists:
Josefina Auslender (USA) Born in Argentina during the era of abstract art, Auslender established herself as a successful sculptor. The troubled times of the 80s in that part of the world brought her to the USA where she started again as a visual artist. Her repertoire include intricately executed drawings that go beyond intellectual mark making. She uses simple forms to address complex issues related to her unique world view.
Kevin Townsend (USA) An internationally recognized artist and professor currently living and working in Kansas City as part of KCAI’s foundation department, Townsend’s expanded drawing practice centers around mark-making, obsession and the phenomenology of time. He previously taught as visiting professor in the Art Education Department of Massachusetts College of Art and Design and as a visiting artist and lecturer in Drawing & Painting at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University.
Michael Winkler (USA) Winkler is a visual/conceptual artist. For over 35 years he has been engaged in an exploration of the imagery and implications of a process-based transformation of the signs of language. His abstract images reveal the patterns encoded in the letter-sequences of the spelling of word. Winkler says: “A word’s spelling is an unplanned product of a collective awareness which extends back to the word’s ultimate origin.”

Masthead Image: Clint Fulkerson, Portal 20 (cropped), graphite, ink and gouache on paper, 30" x 22", 2018

Meet the Residencies: Info Session
2019-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Meet the Residencies: Information Session
Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 6–8pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Porteous Building, Osher Hall
Admission is free. To reserve a seat, contact artistsatwork@meca.edu or 207.699.5016.

Maine College of Art & Design and Hewnoaks present "Meet the Residencies". Representatives from Maine artist residencies will offer an overview of their various programs.
Presenters include the Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Monson Arts, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Monhegan Artist Residency, MECA&D Residencies, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center. Administrators will discuss the specifics of their residency, who is a good fit, and what makes for a successful application.
Snow date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 6:00pm.
Cover image: Meg Hahn, 2017 MECA&D alum, was accepted into two residency programs last summer, the Monhegan Artist Residency and Hewnoaks (Photographer: Alban Maino)
