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 (America/New_York) | 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).
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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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EXHIBITION: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
2018-07-26 - 2018-12-31 | Selma Wolf Black Great Hall, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A selected exhibition of photographs by photographer Sebastião Salgado.
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Raechell Smith: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-30 17:30 - 19:00 | ME
Raechell Smith
Raechell Smith has served as Director and Curator of the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute since its founding in 1999. As a contemporary art space with a strong teaching mission, the Artspace has been recognized for excellence in architectural design, graphic design, and public programming within the region.
Smith has organized solo exhibitions presenting work by regional, national, and international artists including Dawit Petros, Simone Leigh, Kate Gilmore, Ghada Amer, Shirin Neshat, Wenda Gu, the Xijing Men, and Lee Boroson. Public art projects for the Artspace Project Wall have been produced in collaboration with Dan Perjovschi, David Shrigley, Yang Yongliang, Alexis Rockman, Jenny Holzer, and Vik Muniz.
Smith has also curated and collaborated on thematic exhibitions exploring a range of timely and topical issues, include State of the World, exploring the presence of the flag in contemporary global art, On Watch, a meditation on the presence of surveillance in modern life, Making Histories, examining how artists engage and reimagine historical narratives, Humor Me, and Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale.
As an advocate for artists and art communities across the United States, Smith has served on regional and national advisory panels and boards of numerous national and regional organizations that provide critical support to artists, including the Charlotte Street Foundation, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Artadia, and United States Artists, among others.

Header Image: Kansas City Art Institute
Portrait: Image courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center

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Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial
2018-08-03 11:00 - 2018-09-15 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial
On view from August 3 – September 15, 2018
Exhibition Opening: Friday, August 3, 2018, 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)
Curious Nature brings together a diverse group of artists who draw inspiration from the natural world. Employing various mediums, from painting to sculpture, photography, and installation, their works are rooted in the act of looking closer.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
“These artists explore our relationship with the natural world through investigating the structure of reality, daily rhythms, beauty, texture, and emergent patterns. Focusing their attention on places and processes that are often overlooked, they illuminate the various forces affecting ecosystems and the environment that surrounds us. Their perspectives range from the micro and macro, revealing new views of familiar terrain. In an attempt to capture that which is in a state of constant transformation, they record their surroundings, yielding works that inspire our own sense of awe, inviting us to both celebrate nature and protect it.” -- Guest Curator, Shannon Rankin ’97.
Rankin’s selections include fifteen artists exhibiting diverse works that range from painting, printmaking and photography, to sculpture, ceramics, metalwork and installation. Artists include: Annika Earley MFA ’16, Kristin Fitzpatrick ’13, Danielle Gerber ’12, Alisha Gould MFA ’10, Kayla Goulden ’13, Lenka Konopasek MFA ’01, Mark Marchesi ’99, Tessa Greene O'Brien MFA ’16, Isabelle O'Donnell ’17, Catherine Quattrociocchi ’17, Sam Richardson ’15, Celeste Roberge ’79, Bryan Stryeski ’01, Sarah Camille Wilson ’07 and Charley Young MFA ’14.
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Masthead Image: Danielle Gerber, Canyon, 2012, bronze, brass, spray paint.

Opening of Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial
2018-08-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial
On view from August 3 – September 15, 2018
Exhibition Opening: Friday, August 3, 2018, 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)
Curious Nature brings together a diverse group of artists who draw inspiration from the natural world. Employing various mediums, from painting to sculpture, photography, and installation, their works are rooted in the act of looking closer.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
“These artists explore our relationship with the natural world through investigating the structure of reality, daily rhythms, beauty, texture, and emergent patterns. Focusing their attention on places and processes that are often overlooked, they illuminate the various forces affecting ecosystems and the environment that surrounds us. Their perspectives range from the micro and macro, revealing new views of familiar terrain. In an attempt to capture that which is in a state of constant transformation, they record their surroundings, yielding works that inspire our own sense of awe, inviting us to both celebrate nature and protect it.” -- Guest Curator, Shannon Rankin ’97.
Rankin’s selections include fifteen artists exhibiting diverse works that range from painting, printmaking and photography, to sculpture, ceramics, metalwork and installation. Artists include: Annika Earley MFA ’16, Kristin Fitzpatrick ’13, Danielle Gerber ’12, Alisha Gould MFA ’10, Kayla Goulden ’13, Lenka Konopasek MFA ’01, Mark Marchesi ’99, Tessa Greene O'Brien MFA ’16, Isabelle O'Donnell ’17, Catherine Quattrociocchi ’17, Sam Richardson ’15, Celeste Roberge ’79, Bryan Stryeski ’01, Sarah Camille Wilson ’07 and Charley Young MFA ’14.
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Masthead Image: Celeste Roberge, Agarum Clathratum, Cyanotype on Somerset paper, 30" x 22", 2014.
Photography Credit: Robert Diamante. Printed at: University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL. Collection of the Artist.

EXHIBITION: Everyday Maine
2018-09-08 - 2018-12-14 | Michael Klahr Center, UMA, University of Maine Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME, 04330, United States
An exhibition featuring over 190 photographs from 74 Maine photographers. Curated by Bruce Brown, the exhibit features a joyous collection of Maine’s diversity across ability, economics, gender, geography, national origin, race, sexual orientation and work.
“Our goal is to show in these times in our state, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them,’ there’s ‘we,’ said Associate Director David Greenham who has work featured in the show. “We can come together in celebrating and respecting our differences.”
Curator Bruce Brown and Associate Director David Greenham recruited a very strong group of Maine photographers to share photos for the exhibit, including Melonie Bennett, Jeffrey Becton, Tonee Harbert, Sean Alonzo Harris, Tanja Hollander, Michael Cullivan, Jocelyn Lee, Peter Ralston, Jack Montgomery, Cig Harvey and many others. The exhibit also features photographs by the late, renowned national photographers Berenice Abbot and Olive Pierce. Nearly half of the photographers in the exhibit are women.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 - 4:00
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Listing of all 'Traces' Events (107): Fall 2018
2018-09-08 08:00 - 2018-12-31 17:00 | ME

FILM: The Century of Immigration: 1820 - 1924
2018-09-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Gendron Franco Center, 42 Cedar St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
Episode 4 of New York: A Documentary Film examines the great wave of immigration that began in the late 19th century, tripled New York’s population and transformed the city and the nation. On camera, renowned historians like David McCullough and writers like Pete Hamill describe the new tide of humanity from southern and eastern Europe — Italians, Poles, Turks, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Greeks – their reasons for migrating, their passage through Ellis Island, their life in the Lower East Side, and their role in transforming America into an industrial nation.
Part of Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience. The Becoming American series is a three-month public program featuring documentary film screenings and moderated discussions designed to encourage an informed discussion of immigration issues against the backdrop of our immigration history.
Please register to attend here. Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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LECTURE: 2018 Oak Fellow | Bassam Khabieh
2018-09-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Diamond Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Syrian photojournalist Bassam Khabieh has powerfully documented war crimes and other ongoing human rights violations in the Syrian conflict, with images featured by organizations such as UNICEF, the World Health Organization, Reuters, and The Atlantic. In 2015 Khabieh was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for “photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” Khabieh’s impressive achievements are even more remarkable in light of the fact that he is entirely self-taught. Khabieh has survived chemical attacks, airstrikes, booby-trapped cars, and cluster bombs. At the outbreak of the conflict, he was a student of information technology who chose to use his cell phone to take pictures while training himself to use more sophisticated equipment in order to “ensure that the horrific human rights abuses that have been perpetrated would not be without witness.”
Hosted by the Oak Institute for Human Rights.

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LECTURE: Refugee Crisis: The Changing Face of Forced Migration in El Salvador
2018-09-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street, Bangor, ME, 04401, United States
Power in Community Alliances, in conjunction with the Maine Multicultural Center will host a slide show presentation on the findings of Bangor's Sister City Delegation to El Salvador to study the changing dynamics of forced migration. The transition from a flow primarily of economic refugees to a new wave of migrants fleeing for their lives has critical implications for how we understand Latin American immigration issues in our own country.
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EXHIBITION: Maine + Jewish: Two Centuries
2018-09-14 - 2018-10-25 | Maine State Museum, 230 State St., Augusta, ME, 04330, United States
The exhibition presents the experiences of one of Maine's distinctive communities over 200 years, from 19th-century immigrants to more recent residents and summer visitors. Illustrating how Jewish life has become an essential part of Maine’s rhythms and character, it looks at where and why Jews settled in Maine, religious dimensions, working lives, Jewish summer camps, agencies that served Jewish citizens and allowed Jews to serve their neighbors, obstacles to full integration, and barriers overcome.
Hosted by the Maine State Museum.
Banner image: One of many photographs featured in the exhibit will be this ca. 1900 image of dry goods peddler Israel Goldman pictured in front of a house in Amity, Maine. Goldman, who was part of greater Bangor’s Jewish community, traveled as far north as Fort Kent to sell dry goods and later had stores in Danforth and Old Town. Isaac Simpson, photographer, Maine State Museum Collection.

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Lecture: Martina Castro | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
2018-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Martina Castro, founder of Adonde Media and co-founder of Radio Ambulante, will discuss storytelling and podcasting in the Americas as part of MECA&D's Visiting Artist lecture series. The talk will be hosted in MECA&D's Osher Hall.

Martina Castro is a bilingual radio producer, sound designer and podcast consultant. She is CEO & Founder of Adonde Media, a new podcast production company and the Spanish-language podcast community, Podcaster@s. Over her career she has worked at NPR and KALW, including cofounding and producing NPR's Radio Ambulante.
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Martina Castro es una productora de radio, diseñadora de sonido y asesora de podcasts bilingüe. Ella es CEO y fundadora de Adonde Media, una nueva productora de podcast y de la comunidad de podcast en español, Podcaster@s. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado en NPR y KALW y es cofundadora del podcast Radio Ambulante de NPR.

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POETRY + MUSIC: Kol Nidre Services with Kifah Abdullah
2018-09-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Beth Israel Congregation, 291 Main St., Waterville, ME, 04903, United States
Painting by Kifah Abdullah

Join us for our communal night of atonement that will include poetry and cello music from immigrant artist, Kifah Abdullah. Hosted by Beth Israel Congregation.

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LECTURE: Climate Change, Conflict, and Migration: An Example from Africa | Andrew Stanicoff
2018-09-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Chace Community Forum, 178 Main St, Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Andrew Stanicoff is a geologist, natural resource planner, analyst, and manager with 35 years of experience in geology, hydrology, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, climatology, and oceanography. He has 40 years of experience in developing countries and 24 years in Africa. During the last ten years, Mr. Stancioff has worked to develop methods and models to monitor and evaluate poverty and conflict in areas under stress from overpopulation and overuse of natural resources and other forms of degradation. He has been involved in modeling, demographic health and environmental data in support of early warning systems. In recent years, Mr. Stancioff has focused climate change and its effects on water resources and on reducing atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by reforesting areas in north Africa. He is presently seeking support for an effort to reforest some of the most appropriate areas in the Sahel of Africa to sequester Carbon and to provide improved living conditions to people in that region.
Hosted by the Mid-Maine Global Forum. Please check website for pre-registration and lunch choices. Optional lunch available for $12. Limited capacity.
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LECTURE: Finbar O'Reilly
2018-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Diamond Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Finbarr O’Reilly is the co-author of Shooting Ghosts, a unique joint memoir with retired U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas James Brennan. Their story about the unpredictability of war and its aftermath is told in alternating first-person narrative, and explores the things they’ve seen and done, the ways they have been affected, and how they have navigated the psychological aftershocks of war and wrestled with reforming their own identities and moral centers.
Finbarr was a 2016 writer in residence at the McDowell Colony and at the Casey Institute for Global Good. He was also a 2015 Yale World Fellow. Before turning to writing, Finbarr was a Reuters senior photographer based in Tel Aviv, covering Israel and Palestinian Territories, and the 2014 Gaza war. He was a 2013 Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a 2014 Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s DART center for Journalism and Trauma.
He covered Africa as a Reuters correspondent and staff photographer for 10 years. He won the World Press Photo of the Year in 2006, and has since won numerous industry awards for his multimedia work and photography.
Hosted by the Oak Institute for Human Rights.

CONVERSATION: "Maine Calling" Discussion with Immigrants in Maine
2018-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | ME
Maine Public Radio's call-in show "Maine Calling" hosts a discussion about immigrants in Maine—how they are received and perceived, and how they become members of the community here. The show airs live at 1 pm; it is rebroadcast at 8 pm and is online at mainecalling.org.

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FILM + CONVERSATION: The Home Road by Tonya Shevenell
2018-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Campus Center, University of Maine Presque Isle, 181 Main Street, Presque Isle, ME, 04769, United States
Screening of documentary film The Home Road followed by discussion with director Tonya Shevenell.

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LECTURE: Lives Still In Limbo: UnDACAmented and Navigating an Uncertain Future, Roberto Gonzalez, Ph.D.
2018-09-24 19:00 - 20:00 | SSWAC/104 Parker-Reed Room, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterviille, ME, 04901, United States
At DACA's six year mark, more than 814,000 young people had benefited from the program and, as a result, had taken giant steps towards the American mainstream. Things changed under the Trump administration when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an end to what had become a very successful policy on September 5th, 2017. What does this termination mean for these young people and their families? Based on a multi-year study, Professor Gonzales provides some interesting answers to these vexing questions.
Roberto G. Gonzales is Professor of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Since 2002 he has carried out one of the most comprehensive studies of undocumented immigrants in the United States. His book, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and
Coming of Age in America, is based on an in-depth study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles for twelve years.

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Community Conversation and Dinner
2018-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Randall 218 in the Randall Student Union at UMA, Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME, 04330, United States
The Capital Area New Mainers Project (CANMP) and Communities Against Hate are hosting a set of two dinners bringing together old and New Mainers for facilitated conversation around race, religion and prejudice. Second dinner will take place on October 2nd. Limited capacity. To participate please contact:
Host: CANMP & Communities Against Hate
Contact: Steve Wessler & Fatuma Hussein, stevewessler@gmail.com
CANMP contact Chris Myers Ashe newmainersproject@gmail.com,www.newmainersproject.org/

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Community Conversation and Dinner
2018-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Randall 218 in the Randall Student Union at UMA, Augusta, 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME, 04330, United States
The Capital Area New Mainers Project (CANMP) and Communities Against Hate are hosting a set of two dinners bringing together old and New Mainers for facilitated conversation around race, religion and prejudice. Second dinner will take place on October 3rd. Limited capacity. To participate please contact:
Host: CANMP & Communities Against Hate
Contact: Steve Wessler & Fatuma Hussein, stevewessler@gmail.com
CANMP contact Chris Myers Ashe newmainersproject@gmail.com,www.newmainersproject.org/

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LECTURE: Alia Malek
2018-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Diamond Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Alia Malek is a journalist and former civil rights lawyer. She is the author of “A Country Called Amreeka: US History Re-Told Through Arab American Lives,” “The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria,” and editor of “Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustices.” In April, 2011, she moved to Damascus, Syria and wrote anonymously for several outlets in the country as it began to disintegrate. Her reporting from Syria earned her the Marie Colvin Award in November 2013. She served as Senior Writer at Al Jazeera America until 2015. In November 2016, she was honored with the 12th annual Hiett Prize in the Humanities. The New York Foundation for the Arts named her a fellow in nonfiction literature in the summer of 2017. Malek is currently collaborating with 2018 Oak Fellow, Bassam Khabieh on a book of photography, vignettes, and essays entitled, “Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria.”
Hosted by the Oak Institute for Human Rights.

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EXHIBITION: When Will We Ever Learn?
2018-09-28 12:00 - 2018-10-21 16:00 | Yvette Torres Fine Art, 464 Main St., Rockland, ME, 04841, United States
Yvette Torres Fine Art has gathered a group of artists whose work depicts the injustice and consequences of war, genocide and the resulting plight of refugees. for an October exhibition. Their works spans the decades from 1952 - 2018. Artists include, Don Alter, Samuel Gelber, James Graham, Frances Kidder, Cynthia Motian McGuril, Winslow Myers, Elaine Schmitt Urbain and John Urbain. The exhibit will run from September 28 through October 21, 2018. The opening reception: Friday, October 5, 5 - 8pm.
Yvette Torres Fine Art is located at 464 Main St. Rockland, Maine. Fall hours are, Thursday. through Saturday 12 – 5 and Sunday 12 – 4 or by appointment. The phone number is 332-4014. www.yvettetorresfineart.com
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to refugee resettlement programs in Maine.
Special Event: On Sunday, October 7 at 3pm, artist, author and activist, Winslow Myers will give a presentation titled “All Good Art is Protest Art”. Click here to find out more about this event.

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September Open House: BFA Admissions
2018-09-28 13:00 - 16:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Visit MECA&D for an Open House!
Come see first-hand why students are choosing to study in MECA&D's close-knit community and rigorous artistic programs. At an Open House, you'll have a chance to:
+ Get to know faculty and current students
+ Take a tour of our studios and res halls
+ Have your portfolio reviewed with professional artists
+ Explore the vibrant art scene in downtown Portland, Maine
This Open House is specifically designed for students interested in our BFA program — we'll send you more information within 48 hours of registration.
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If you have any questions about our Open Houses, you can contact us at admissions@meca.edu or 207.699.5026.
