Lori Nix, Photographer Lori Nix was born in the late 1960’s and raised in the American Midwest. Her early exposure to the destructive powers of Mother Nature and Hollywood dystopian stories fueled her young imagination. For the last 20+ years she has constructed small scale dioramas and photographed them. Beginning with retelling the tall tales […]
With Special Guest Ariel Dougherty, director and Women Make Movies co-founder General Admission $10 / $7 for MECA&D Faculty / $5 for MECA&D Students Screening of historic, narrative shorts from the 1970s — “Domestic Tranquility” and “Sweet Bananas” — followed by Q&A talkback with director Ariel Dougherty on the films, the history of Women Make […]
Doug Varone and Dancers team up with Abstract Painter and MECA&D Faculty member Michel Droge for a look at the inspired work of Joan Mitchell through dance, imagery, and dialogue.
Keith Edmier, Sculptor Keith Edmier has evolved his artistic process into one that intertwines his own personal narrative with historical personalities, architectural simulations, and botanical wonders. He has directly collaborated with many iconic figures such as Farrah Fawcett, Evel Knievel, and Frank Veteran (the doctor who attended to John Lennon the night Lennon was shot), […]
Ann Hirsch, Performance Artist Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist who examines the influence of technology on popular culture and gender. Her immersive research has included becoming a YouTube "camwhore" with over two million video views and an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair on VH1. She was […]
Jim Shaw, Illustrator Since the 1970s, Jim Shaw has created a vast body of work spanning diverse media and reference points. Shaw’s work mines the essentials of American cultural detritus, from comic books, pulp novels, and album covers, to vintage advertisements, movie posters, and noise rock. Originating from these sources, the work often features recurring […]
2016 Biennial Faculty Exhibition On view from Wednesday, August 24–Thursday, September 29, 2016. Please join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, September 2, 2016, 5:00–8:00pm ICA Gallery hours Wed–Sun,11am–5pm, Thurs, 11am–7pm, Friday, 11am–5pm, (FFAW until 8pm) Kate Greene, Untitled, Photography, 2016 Curator Sage Lewis '04 has selected artists and work coalescing around the idea of bounty, […]
Opening Reception for CREATE V: September 1, 5:00–7:00pm On view: September 1—27, Monday - Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm, Maine College of Art & Design, First Floor The fifth annual Continuing Studies exhibition showcases the work of both faculty and students in areas ranging from metalsmithing and jewelry, ceramics, painting, drawing, mixed media, found objects, sculpture, and more. […]
J. Felice Boucher '84 Charles Thomas Gallery exhibition September 9–November 8, 2016 Monday–Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm Felice Boucher is the recipient of the 2016 Canon Par Excellence Award, as well as the 2016 Maine Photographer of the Year and the 2016 PPA International Diamond Photographer of the Year. In 2015, she was New England Photographer of the […]
