Dreamy & Surreal
2017-06-30 - 2017-10-20 | Macpage, 30 Long Creek Drive, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Dreamy & Surreal
MacPage, 30 Long Creek Dr, South Portland, Maine
On view through October 20, tours/visits must be scheduled

This exhibition features MECA&D alum Celeste Roberge '79 and includes alums Rachael Eastman '94 and Michelle Stuckey '07. Also included are MECA&D faculty and students from various programs.
To schedule a tour of the Macpage exhibits, please email Ralph Hendrix at rrh@macpage.com.
Chris Beneman, Diane Dahlke, Rachael Eastman '94, Rebecca Hayes, Richard Hutchins, Jean Kigel, Julie Lapping Rivera, Mike Libby, Kimberly Lyons, Pamela Moulton, Judy O'Donnell, Alex Rheault, Cheyenne Stubbs, Deb Whitney, Mary Longley, Anne Hecker, Jane Banquer, Maya Kuvaja, Mary Brooking, Michelle Stuckey '07, Cheslye Ventimiglia, and Margareta McDonald
Celeste Roberge '79 lives and works in South Portland. She is Professor Emerita, University of Florida, where she was Head of Sculpture in the School of Art + Art History for twenty-two years. She holds the following degrees: MFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA Maine College of Art & Design, BA in Sociology and Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine.
Celeste Roberge '79 has received numerous awards and fellowships. In 2013 she held a residency in the Arts/Industry Program at Kohler in Wisconsin. In 2010 and 2011, she initiated her current work with seaweed as a resident artist at Baie Ste.Marie/Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia, sponsored by the Maine College of Art & Design. She was a resident artist at SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2007. She has received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Celeste’s sculptures, drawings and prints are included in museums and private collections throughout the United States.
Emily Barrera is an Alfred University BFA graduate of 2014. Emily currently works out of the Button Factory Studios in Portsmouth, NH and has exhibited her work in both upstate New York and New England. She shows a dreamlike quality in her work, illustrating narratives with a quiet mysteriousness to them. She often uses the fresh linear elements of drawing in her paintings that are more rendered and realistic, layering them together to make another strange and surreal compositions.
Meeting While Walking Under the Sea, Algae, textiles, paper, ink, 2016, 15" x 11.25"

'American Genre: Contemporary Painting' Exhibition
2017-07-20 11:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 (America/New_York) | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
The ICA at Maine College of Art & Design is free and open to the public. Wednesday–Sunday 11:00am–5:00pm, Thursday 11:00am–7:00pm, and First Fridays 11:00am–8:00pm.
American Genre: Contemporary Painting
Hope Gangloff, After Party, 2015, acrylic and collage on paper
On view from July 20, 2017 – September 15, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design is pleased to announce American Genre: Contemporary Painting curated by artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner. Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
American Genre: Contemporary Painting is an exhibition built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Fifty-two paintings by fifty-two American artists offers a critical balance to the conditions of atemporality, affected responses, and the material turn shaping much of contemporary painting discourse. Alternatively, this exhibition employs historically recognized groupings of subject and forms. Genres incorporate and invoke structures of knowledge by performing classification. Deeply embedded in everyday life, genre is conspicuous and powerful in its ability to chart historical continuity and differences through its organizing forces.

Artists include:
Still Life: Gina Beavers, Dana DeGiulio, Wendy Edwards, Francesca Fuchs, Hope Gangloff, Evan Gruzis, Angelina Gualdoni, Magalie Guerin, Jessica Halonen, Jonn Herschend, Tucker Nichols, Aliza Nisenbaum, Walter Robinson, Roger White, Griff Williams, Kelly S. Williams, Emi Winter, Mathew Zefeldt
Portraiture: Herman Aguirre, Lucas Ajemian, Deborah Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Brian Calvin, Susanna Coffey, Angela Dufresne, Andreas Fischer, Howard Fonda, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Keith Mayerson, Frank J. Stockton, Henry Taylor, Storm Tharp, Kehinde Wiley
Landscape: Dan Attoe, Peter Barrickman, Amy Bennett, Michael Berryhill, Patrick Chamberlain, Ann Craven, Paula Crown, Cynthia Daignault, Rackstraw Downes, Mari Eastman, Shara Hughes, Brad Killam, Eva Lundsager, Tyson Reeder, John Riepenhoff, Claire Sherman, Gail Spaien, Spencer Sweeney, Emily Sundblad
This exhibition will include an exhibition catalog that also functions as a genre reader. The exhibition will close with a one-day symposium hosted by Maine College of Art & Design, and featuring a panel discussion moderated by Barry Schwabsky on September 15, 2017.
For more information or to request an interview, please contact Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design (ICA), 207.699.5025 or ehutton@meca.edu.

I miss you tooooo!!!
2017-07-27 09:00 - 2017-09-08 17:00 | Charles C. Thomas Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design, second floor
I miss you tooooo!!!
An exhibition of prints by Pilar Nadal, MFA '13
On view through September 8, 2017, Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Charles Thomas Gallery
Pilar Nadal

CREATE VI
2017-08-23 09:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, First Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
CREATE VI: MECA&D's 6th Annual Continuing Studies Student & Faculty Exhibition
Porteous, First Floor
On View: August 23–September 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, August 25, 5-7pm
The annual Continuing Studies student and faculty exhibition at MECA&D features a range of work from paintings to photographs to ceramics and highlights the breadth and depth of talent in our local community.

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Artists

Kifah Abdullah
Aileen Agnew
Cynthia Ahlstrin
Nela Alvarez-Sotomayor
Jennifer Battis
Laura Bicherl
Liz Bieber
Annette Cardullo
Kay Carter
Jean-Marie Caterina
Crystal Cawley
Mary Baldwin Collins
Russ Cox
Bess Cutler
Diane Dahlke
Kathryn SB Davis
Deb Dawson
Anna Dibble
Kathleen Donkin
John Doyle
Abby Elder
Betsy Elliman
Hayley Emmons
Amy Fecteau
Rachel Alvarez Flaherty
Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo
Linda Green
Marshall Green
Alicia Greenwald
Katherine Griffin
Cathryn Hammond
James Harrod
Lynn Holler
Janet Hyland
Alison Kamar
Wendy Kaye

Ruth Kepron
Marguerite Lawler
Gilles Letourneau
Carol MacLeod
Margareta McDonald
Richard McFaul
Karen Merritt
Rachel Michaud
Martha Miller
Mary Morse
Maggie Muth
James Neuger
Phoebe Parker
Kerrin Parkinson
Sally Paterson
Emily Percival
Gail Pfeifle
Christina Replogle
Digby Roberts
Wylie Roberts
Jillian Schleicher
Arthur Schaefer
Mary Siteman
Adam Stockman
Tricia Toms
Tammy Towle
Amy Vander Els
Linda Vander Els
Dietlind Vander Schaaf
Kathy Wagner
Kelly Wallace
Mardie Weldon

Kathy Wagner, Rene, oil on panel, 24" x 24"

ICA at MECA&D: American Genre Painting Symposium
2017-09-15 10:00 - 17:00
Portland, Maine ~ The Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Painting and MFA programs at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is pleased to invite the public to attend On Genre: A Painting Symposium, a daylong series of conversations about the power of painting and the idea of genre as a cultural structure — one that guides interpretation, anticipation and imagination.
This unique community gathering will spotlight and examine the exhibition American Genre: Contemporary Painting, curated by Michelle Grabner, Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nationally and internationally recognized presenters will be joined by an engaged group of artists, arts leaders and students to share perspectives about still life, landscape and portraiture as categories that chart historical continuity and reveal American value systems. A rich opportunity for extended discussion, Grabners’ exhibition is compelling and approachable, and yields great potential for interpretation and reflection on painting and genre as spaces of agreement.
The morning session will begin with a brief overview by Michelle Grabner, followed a keynote lecture entitled Contemporary Genre Painting: Animating the Intimate by Marie Shurkus, Ph.D, Chair of Academic Studies and Professor of Art History at MECA&D. Drawing insight from the feminist tenet that the personal is political, this talk will analyze how contemporary genre paintings invite audiences to participate in an imaginary realm that activates real consequences.
An afternoon panel discussion, Painting as Common Ground, led by Barry Schwabsky, American poet and the art critic for The Nation (the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States), will explore genre and painting as systems that organize, interpret, translate and imagine history and experience. In response to Michelle Grabner's curatorial focus, five panelists Sharon Butler, Angela Dufresne, Shara Hughes, Chris Stiegler and Roger White will share a variety of perspectives and insights about contemporary painting and illuminate the role of genre as a ubiquitous frame of reference. A community event intended to foster cultural dialogue, audience members will be encouraged to take part in an extended question and answer period following the presentation.
On Genre: A Painting Symposium will end with a closing reception in the ICA. For more information, please contact Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art & Design at 207.699.5025 or ica@meca.edu .
This event is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, RSVP to the September 15th Symposium by emailing ica@meca.edu.
Header Artwork: Dan Attoe, Cedar Tree with Creep, 2017

Adriane Herman: Out of Sorts
2017-09-16 12:00 - 2017-10-14 18:00 | SPEEDWELL, 630 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Adriane Herman: Out of Sorts
On view September 16–October 14 at SPEEDWELL

Surrender Sunday
Sunday, October 1, 2-4pm
First Friday Art Walk
Friday, Oct 6, 4-8pm
Artist talk with Adriane Herman
Friday, October 13, 6pm
Emotional Value Auction/Closing Reception
Saturday, October 14, 12-5pm

Visit SPEEDWELL's site for more information.
Read Portland Press Herald's "Artist Adriane Herman’s changing lives, one project at a time."

SPEEDWELL projects proudly presents Out of Sorts, an exhibition orchestrated by experience broker, Adriane Herman, which explores cycles of accumulation and release in our physical and emotional landscapes. Opening September 16th with a reception from 5-8 pm, the show invites visitors to consider individual and collective consumption as manifest in five mini-bales of recyclable materials that non-profit solid waste manager, ecomaine compressed and loaned for the exhibition. Also on view are photographs Herman took of our trash being incinerated and our recycling being sorted both mechanically and by hand.
Herman is pressing pause on the recycling process to allow visitors to contemplate their own patterns of consumption, as well as the various conduits for release available to us, and the personal, cultural and global implications of material excess and disposability. To facilitate such reflections, Out of Sorts includes benches fabricated from salvaged wood by Benjamin Spalding and upholstered by Amy Emmons with fabric printed with Herman’s photographs of bales of recycling and municipal woodpiles. Visitors can sit on the plushly cushioned benches and register the visual, visceral, and psychological impact of what she calls “simultaneously minimalist and maximalist monuments to communal efforts to keep things out of the landfill.” Materially manifest in the strata of these intimate yet anonymous commodities is evidence of how we eat, drink, work, play, and clean, and how much attention we pay to discarding things responsibly.
In addition to a First Friday Reception October 6 from 4–8pm, ecomaine’s Environmental Educator, Katrina Venhuizen, will discuss the “art” of recycling and the importance of composting food waste on Friday, September 29th from 6-8 pm. Additional events include two “witnessed releases” Herman is choreographing, including Surrender Sunday, when anyone looking to let go of something weighing them down can consult one-on-one with a compassionate listener/receiver on Sunday, October 1st from 12-2 pm. Herman will give an artist talk Friday, October 13th at 6 pm. Out of Sorts ends with an Emotional Value Auction on Saturday, October 14th from 12-5 pm. Anyone interested in releasing an object they desire to pass on to someone who will value it and know its history can inquire about participation by emailing adrianeherman@gmail.com. “Bids” will take the form of written statements of interest in an item. At the end of the “auction,” each item’s owner may choose a winner. Everyone is welcome to witness these meaningful exchanges between strangers. All events take place at 630 Forest Avenue.
Herman has exhibited widely and lectured at over fifty institutions. Her work is in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is a Professor of the MFA in Visual Art at Maine College of Art & Design, and holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Out of Sorts, a subsidiary of Herman’s projects Goods Riddance, and The Freeing Throwers, was facilitated by ecomaine, Hour Exchange Portland, The KISMET Foundation, and Yarmouth Public Works.
SPEEDWELL projects is an artist-run studio and gallery dedicated to launching thought-provoking exhibitions in all media, including site-specific installations, public art, spoken word and performance.

Chinese Brush Painting: Christine Maclin
2017-09-20 09:00 - 2017-10-25 17:00
Chinese Brush Painting: An Exhibition of Christine Maclin's Work
On view through September 20–October 25, Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Reception: Wednesday, September 20, 5–7pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Charles Thomas Gallery, Second floor
Learn more about Christine Macklin in the Portland Press Herald article, A grieving husband honors his wife by curating a show of her Chinese brush paintings.
Christine Maclin, Flowers
