'Process + Place​​' Exhibition
2017-01-10 08:00 - 2017-02-28 17:00 (America/New_York) | Charles C. Thomas Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design, second floor
Process + Place Exhibition
Charles Thomas Gallery, Second Floor
January 10–February 28, 2017
Monday–Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm
A group exhibition featuring work by alumni who participated in a 2016 artist residency at either the Stephen Pace House in Stonington, Maine or the Baie Ste Marie Artist and Family Residency in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia.
This show includes work by Bruce Brosnan '95, Caren-Marie Michel '78, Angela Warren MFA '11, Eric Vaughn MFA '12, Margaret Lawrence '93, Matthew Burnett MFA '06, and Scott Fuller MFA '06.

Angela Warren MFA '11, untitled, acrylic on canvas, 30''x30'

Collective Actions II
2017-02-01 09:00 - 2017-03-03 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Collective Actions II, an exhibition of printed matter highlighting collaboration, communication, and public engagement, opens in the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art & Design on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.
The reception takes place on Friday, February 3, 2017 from 5:00-8:00pm and is open to the public. The exhibit will be on view until Friday, March 3, 2017.
Collective Actions II consists of three elements:
- The Unity of Opposites
- Print Lab
- Mobile Print Power
The Unity of Opposites exhibition features the collaboration between two printmaking studios: Zea Mays Printmaking (Florence, MA), and Peregrine Press (Portland, ME). The two studios created a visual “rip-off” of the childhood game Telephone, in an effort to expose real-world issues about communication and interpretation in our contemporary culture. The process continued until 75 artists participated over the course of five months; each artist’s response highlights their own perspective on their collaborator’s art.
The interactive Print Lab is being brought to fruition by the Future Mothers art collective, the multigenerational New York City collective Mobile Print Power, and by student artists from MECA&D’s Zine Club. Three distinct but complementary projects, comprised of the Future Bridges tent, the Mobile Print Power silkscreen cart, and the Zine Fair, will employ socially engaged art practices and draws on a rich history of collaboration, dissemination, and public action through printmaking. Through participatory workshops that engage local community members, participants will explore urgent social and political issues through creative mediums.
Mobile Print Power (MPP) is a multi-generational collective based out of IMI Corona, in Queens, New York, that utilizes silkscreen printmaking and participatory design in public spaces to engage communities. Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Making it Real is an evolution of the exhibition Soñamos Sentirnos Libres: Under Construction. This version of the exhibition highlights some of the collaborative work produced throughout its initial run, which focused on utilizing historical resources to to draw connections between past and current struggles for the rights of immigrants, intentionally prioritizing the voices of youth, undocumented folks, and women. At Maine College of Art & Design, a series of public events will engage different communities with the ideas behind MPP’s work, including collaboration, immigrant identity, and the role of the artist.
The Institute of Contemporary Art is open to the public, free of charge, Wednesday–Sunday, 11:00am–5:00pm, Thursdays until 7:00pm, and First Fridays until 8:00pm.
Artwork: Nancy Doniger, Dance, Monoprint
