MECA&D Alumni Residency: Open Studios

Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, United States

Please join us for the inaugural open studios of the alumni residency at MECA&D. The residents will open their studios to the MECA&D community this Friday, July 28, from 4pm–6pm in the MFA studios in the Porteous Building. This year's selected participants are Sage Lewis '04, Eric Nichols MFA '13, Ray Ewing '12 and Dylan Hausthor […]

Artist Lecture: Sonya Clark

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

MECA&D’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Program is pleased to announce the 2017 MFA Lecture Series, which brings a national and international roster of visiting artists, curators, and scholars to Portland, Maine. These Visiting Artists intersect with MECA&D’s eight-week MFA Summer Intensive, deliver a public lecture, attend critiques, and conduct studio visits with […]

CREATE VI

Maine College of Art & Design, First Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 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 […]

An Evening with New Yorker Illustrator Emily Flake

45 Seashore Avenue Peaks Island, ME, United States

An Evening with New Yorker Illustrator Emily Flake Monday, August 28, 6:30–8:00pm Historic 5th Maine Museum on Peaks Island 45 Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, ME Free and open to the public Presented by MECA&D & the Illustration Institute Emily Flake began cartooning for The New Yorker in 2008, and has had more than a hundred cartoons […]

An Evening with Wayne White

2 Garden Pl Peaks Island, ME, United States

An Evening with Wayne White Tuesday, August 29, 7:00–9:00pm Peaks Island Lions Club 2 Garden Pl, Peaks Island, ME 04108 Free and open to the public Wayne White The Illustration Institute will be screening the documentary BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING followed by a Q&A with Wayne White, who is the subject of the film. Wayne White is […]

An Evening with Cartoonist Mimi Pond

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

An Evening with Cartoonist Mimi Pond Thursday, August 31, 7:00–9:00pm Maine College of Art & Design's Osher Hall 522 Congress St, Portland, ME Free and open to the public Join LA-based cartoonist Mimi Pond for the launch of her highly-anticipated graphic novel The Customer Is Always Wrong. Told in the same brash yet earnest style […]

ICA at MECA&D: American Genre Painting Symposium

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 […]

Ceramics Visiting Artist: Chris Gustin

Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Visiting Artist Lecture: Chris Gustin Tuesday, September 26, 2017 Presentation: Osher Hall, 11:00–11:50am Chris Gustin, Cloud Series #1720, 2017, 24x28x25, Stoneware, Anagama Wood Fired "I am interested in pottery that make connections to the human figure. The figurative analogies used to describe pots throughout history all in some way invite touch. The pots that I […]