Bluestocking Film Festival Shorts
2018-03-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Yawkey Theater, WGBH, 1 Guest St., One Guest Street, Boston, MA, 02135, United States
With Special Guest Ariel Dougherty, director and Women Make Movies co-founder
Boston, MA on March 15
Yawkey Theater, WGBH, 1 Guest St.
Pre-screening reception 6:30, screening at 7PM.
Free for WIFVNE and WGBH members, $10 for non-members.
"The event starts with networking and conversation with light refreshments provided in the Yawkey Atrium. Our group will enter the Yawkey Theater for the film screening. Following the screening, we will have a Q&A with the film festival founder Kate Kaminski."
This event is part of the Bluestocking Film Series— an exclusive showcase for provocative, well-produced films that feature complex female protagonists driving the narrative and leading the action. All short fiction films must feature a female protagonist, submissions must also pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test.

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Workshop: The Fine Art of Living & Dying in a Box!
2018-03-17 09:00 - 16:00
“Love deeply and let go!”
The Fine Art of Living & Dying in a Box!
Continuing Studies at MECA&D
Saturday,March 17, 9am–4pm
Course Link
Throughout centuries, Death has been honored with art, ritual and celebration. As vital as we are today, we will become ash, dust, compost for the next ones coming up. How can we look back at the ancient ways of letting go of loved ones, the artistry in wrapping the bodies in shrouds, with monuments to the heavens, memento mori and the gatherings in the parlor of friends and family with stories of laughter and joy, and move forward to the present of each day?
Our cultural paradigm in the past few decades has buried it’s celebrations of death and has been following a path of fear and repulsion. Death was once a welcome guest in homes, the dead comfortably taking up a room for a few days. Before the dead were sent to funeral homes, families and friends lovingly kept them in the front parlor, washing them, dressing them in their best, displaying them for all to see. Funerals were held at the local graveyard or on the land of the deceased. Children were part of the cycle, comfortable with the dying nearby, holding dead siblings for the photographer to get the family photo before laying the little one into the ground. Everyone had buried someone and shared in the loss by celebrating the life well-lived.
Gina Colombatto wants to bring normalcy back to death. Talking with groups of strangers at Death Cafes and in her studies of thanatology (thanatos = death), she has noticed that the more interaction we have with the subject of death and dying, the more conversations we can share of our personal experiences, the easier the process can be when one finds Death nearby.
She brings the invitation to design ways to hold death, in words, in movement, in containers enveloped in materials that make our hearts sing and our hands continue to make beauty. Offering the course The Fine Art of Living and Dying in a BOX!, brings community together to share thoughts around death, our own or of those we love in an up-close and personal way. Speaking directly to Death, we are reminded of the preciousness of life and that we are all in this together.
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About the Class
Build and embellish your own cremation urn. Not quite ready? A simple pine box holds ashes of your favorite pet, a loved one long passed, or plan ahead and design your own. Paint, fabric, decoupage or photomontage personalize this holder of cremains for later (or use it as a cookie jar now!). We'll spend the day talking about death/dying, of what to do with these precious bodies when they no longer serve us, and of paperwork needed in Maine for easy home funerals. Exploring age-old traditions and global customs we'll travel the globe and be inspired to see the varied arts that celebrate death and dying.
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Gina Colombatto is a Health Educator and Integrated Thanatology Counselor, which means she studies all things related to life and death and knows that gathering people to play together is good for the body, mind and spirit. Gina has envisioned and developed community art, worked with students of all ages, and continues to facilitate Death Cafes. Chuck Lakin is a Woodworker and Home Funeral Educator, whose interest in this topic came from his experience at his father's death. Without the knowledge and information about the options he had, he felt he missed out. Now, his goal is to share information needed to make informed plans and decisions before death, for a meaningful and smooth transition.

Helen Carnac: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-03-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Windgate Lecture Series: Helen Carnac
Thursday, March 22, 12–1pm, Osher Hall
Helen Carnac is a maker and curator who lives and works in London. Drawing, mark-making, the explicit connections between material, process and maker and an emphasis on deliberation and reflection are all central to her practice as a maker and thinker.Helen Carnac is a maker and curator who lives and works in London. Drawing, mark-making, the explicit connections between material, process and maker and an emphasis on deliberation and reflection are all central to her practice as a maker and thinker.
Running an environmentally grounded practice, Helen develops projects using design methodologies that are rooted in an acute awareness of physical location, place and working practices. The populated environment is of key importance and through her practice and projects she aims to bring people together in order to create social and creative engagement and collaboration in an open-ended design process.
Helen often works in interdisciplinary environments and is currently working with various designers and artists on projects, including a DJ, textile artists, scientists, fine artists, choreographers, a performance artist, furniture designer and silversmith. She has worked extensively in the UK and USA, and in 2011 ran a 4 month walking project as a guest Professor in Berlin. She is a member of the collaborative making project Intelligent Trouble and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Salt Alumni Mixer
2018-03-29 17:00 - 19:00
Salt Alumni Mixer @ Rising Tide Brewery
Thursday, March 29, 5:00–7:00pm
Rising Tide Brewery, 103 Fox Street, Portland, Maine
Dear Salt Alum,
Please join fellow Salt alums and current Salt students at a special Alumni Mixer at Rising Tide Brewery in Portland. We’d love to see you there!
Come catch up with old Salt friends, meet current students, and tell us what you’re up to.
Rising Tide offers beer and cider, as well as non-alcoholic drinks— light snacks and a first drink will be provided by Salt.
We’d appreciate it if you’d RSVP by March 20 on our Facebook event page. And if you have any questions about the event, please reach out to Colin Cheney, who teaches the Salt Workshop, and is also our new Outreach Coordinator: ccheney@meca.edu.
Looking forward to seeing you at Rising Tide!
Warmly,
Annie

Admitted Student Day
2018-03-31 10:00 - 15:00, 2018-04-14 10:00 - 15:00

Eric Anang: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Windgate Visiting Artist: Eric Anang
Monday, April 2, 12–1pm, Osher Hall
Eric Anang is a Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter. He was born in Teshie, Ghana, where he lives and runs the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop. The story of the fantasy coffin begins in 1950s colonial Ghana.
In Ghana, chiefs are often transported via palaquins (also known as sedan chairs) during traditional festivals. In the 1950s, Seth Kane Kwei, a young carpenter, made a palaquin in the shape of a cocoa pod for one such chief. Unfortunately, the chief died unexpectedly before the festival, so he was buried in the palanquin instead. At his funeral, the unique coffin drew many admirers. Within a few weeks, local people began to request unique coffins.
The coffins, also popularly known as abebuu adekai or "proverb boxes," quickly became one of Ghana's most unique traditions.

Diversity Discussion Group #3
2018-04-03 16:00 - 17:00
Diversity Committee Hosts Open Discussion
April 3, 4:00pm, Joanne Waxman Library
Members of MECA&D's Diversity Committee and our guest facilitators will be hosting informal discussions around issues pertaining to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Edgar Mosa: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
BFA Spring 2018 Visiting Artist Lecture Series

MECA&D’s Visiting Artist & Guest Lecturer Series invites professional artists, educators, curators, thought leaders, and creative entrepreneurs to present on topics of interest and importance to the MECA&D community.
All lectures in this series are hosted in Osher Hall and are open to the public at no charge. Seating is limited. Supported in part by the Gene R. Cohen Charitable Foundation, the Isabel K. Pease Trust, and friends of the College through the Osher Chair Naming Program. Call 207.699.5010 for more information.
Edgar Mosa
Thursday, April 5, 12–1pm
Edgar Mosa is an artist born in Lisbon, Portugal where he was trained as a goldsmith at the age of 14. His work is grounded in material and method while exploring temporal symbolism, his environment, and fashion. His studio in New York City has become a secret hideout for underground stars, designers and artists of all types. Mosa always has people coming and going, “sketching” pieces directly on their bodies, which can plant the seed for an entire collection. All the content is made, produced and overviewed by Edgar Mosa himself. He holds a Bachelor of Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in The Netherlands and a Master of Fine Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States.
Edgar Mosa, Salt. Photo by Joseph McShea

Q+A and Exhibition Walkthrough: You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes
2018-04-06 15:30 - 16:30 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Q+A and Exhibition Walkthrough:
You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 3:30PM
Join us in the ICA at MECA&D for a Q&A and Exhibition Walk-Through — with Guest Curator Scott Patrick Wiener and the participating artists from the exhibition.
Participating Artists: Sean Fader, Sean Downey, Sean Glover

Bad Influence: Salt Storytelling Night
2018-04-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, 519 Congress St #2B, Portland, Maine, 04101
Thirteen true life, Moth-style stories by current Salt Radio and Photography + Film students on the theme of "Bad Influence." Doors open at 6:45; Free Admission.
The event is held in the Mechanics Ballroom, on the 3rd floor of the Maine Charitable Mechanics Association.
Learn more about the Salt Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies at MECA&D.

Diversity Discussion Group #4
2018-04-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Joanne Waxman Library
Diversity Committee Hosts Open Discussion
Tuesday, 4:00pm, Joanne Waxman Library
April 17

Members of MECA&D's Diversity Committee and our guest facilitators will be hosting informal discussions around issues pertaining to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

2018 MECA&D Film Festival
2018-04-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
MECA&D Film Fest
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 6:00pm
Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design
*Not open to the public
A juried showing of fiction, nonfiction, and experimental student films. A winner will be picked from each genre. Free admission.

MECA&Dmorphosis Runway Fashion Show 2018
2018-05-04 19:00 - 21:00

2018 Commencement for BFA, MFA, MAT
2018-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 10:00am at the State Theatre located at 609 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. More information will be coming soon.
Schedule

Doors open to the public at 9:15am. No tickets are required.
The commencement ceremony typically lasts two hours.
A reception will immediately follow the commencement ceremony at Maine College of Art & Design at 522 Congress Street, Portland, Maine.
Parking information is below. Plan to arrive early to allow time to find parking.
Any additional announcements for families and guests will be posted on this page. Questions may be directed to studentlife@meca.edu.

View the 2018 Commencement Digital Invitation

Lodging Options

Hotels in Portland and Surrounding Area
Bed & Breakfasts in Portland and Surrounding Area

Directions
Directions to Maine College of Art & Design, Porteous Building:
Portland Map
From the North
Take Interstate 295 to Exit 7, Franklin Street
From the South
Take the Maine Turnpike northbound to Exit 44, Interstate 295. Follow Interstate 295 to Exit 7, Franklin Street
Directions to the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street:
Stay on Franklin Street until you hit the top of the hill and take a right onto Congress Street.
You will pass City Hall on your right; continue on Congress several more blocks, past Monument Square. Porteous is the large building on the left with a brown awning.

Parking
There is a public parking garage at 45 Spring Street, on the right just past the Cumberland County Civic Center. To go to the Porteous Building from the parking garage, leave the parking garage through its rear exit, onto Free Street; the Porteous Building will be immediately across the street from you.
On-street 2-hour parking is available on Congress, Casco (directly across from the Porteous Building entrance) and surrounding streets.
Portland Parking Garages and Lots

One City Center Parking Garage, Monument Square, 773.2761
Midtown Parking Lot, 44 Fore St.
Top of the Old Port Parking Lot, 119 Pearl & Congress Sts., 828.1212
Temple Street Parking Garage, 11 Temple St., 772.5762
Cumberland County Parking Garage, Newbury St., 871.8275
Custom House Sq. Parking Garage, Pearl & Fore Sts.
Fore Street Parking Garage, 439 Fore St., 772.7738
Casco Bay Parking Garage, Commercial St. at Maine State Pier, 774.8653
Cotton & Center Parking Lot, 57 Center St., 879.8983
Public Market Parking Garage, 315 Cumberland Ave, 774.2829
Spring St. Parking Garage, 45 Spring St., 874.2842
Gateway Parking Garage, 181 High St., 761.1568
Harbor Plaza Parking Garage, Union St., 775.3788
Monument Square Parking Garage, Cumberland and Brown Sts.

CS Week Intensives: Salt Documentary Workshops
2018-06-04 09:00 - 2018-06-08 16:00
Through our Continuing Studies Department, we are offering 5 Documentary Workshops based on curriculum from our Salt Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies.
CS Salt Week-long Intensives + Instructors

Sound Design (Peter Lang-Stanton)
The Personal Essay (Colin Cheney)
Documentary Film (Ben Severance)

*Students will have 24/7 access to studios
*EARLY BIRD* Special Tuition: $975
*AFTER MAY 1, 2018* Tuition: $1075
Sound Design
In this hands-on workshop, students will dive into audio editing techniques used in sound design. This course will cover the fundamentals of why, when, and how to sound design and use music and other elements in radio and podcasting. Students will learn where to find sounds and how to record their own for sound design. Students will be introduced to array of digital processing tools built into DAWs, including EQ, reverb, compression, as well as other dynamic, filter, and delay effects. At the end of days, students will have 1-2 audio pieces with rich, cinematic sound design, and a fuller understanding of how and why to manipulate sound to augment a radio story. Sign up.
The Personal Essay
In this week-long intensive class, we'll dive into the art of the personal essay. By the end of the class, you will have crafted a new personal essay of 3,000-4,000 words. Building toward this final essay, we'll develop a range of essential skills: distinguishing the various 'selves' inhabiting our essay; crafting vivid, sense-rich scenes of experience; identifying guiding questions; and writing honest personal reflections that will surprise you and the reader. In class we will undertake a range of writing exercises, analyze exceptional essays, and workshop exercises and essay drafts. We will also cover other formal and ethical concerns involved in writing about our lives, and explore steps we can take to expand the scope of our writing project from a single essay to a book-length memoir. Sign up.
Documentary Film
This five-day intensive aims to equip students with the skills necessary to shoot and produce powerful, short-form documentaries through compelling video and audio. Students will engage in hands-on training in DSLR video, audio, and editing with Premiere. Coursework will be geared toward the beginner to intermediate student and will focus primarily on shooting and production, including interviewing, external sound recording, b-roll, basic lighting and editing. Students will be provided with story ideas in and around Portland, as they will dive headfirst into shooting stories and critiquing colleagues' work. Students will also have access to computer labs and video editing software (Premiere) during and after class hours. Sign up.
Cover Image: Briget Ganske, The Keeping of Bees

Sterling Allen: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-06-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Sterling Allen
Sterling Allen, Frozen Sculptures (in situ), 2017, Wood, paint, found object
Monday, June 18, 5:30pm
Sterling Allen holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He is a co-founder and co-director of Okay Mountain, an artist collective and former gallery based in Austin, Texas. As a solo artist and in collaboration with the group, he has exhibited, organized, and completed projects at venues throughout the United States and received several residencies including the Artpace International Artist-In-Residence Program in San Antonio, Texas. He has exhibited at numerous venues including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, and VOLTA NY. He has been twice nominated for an Art Matters Grant and was recently awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation Residency for 2019. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. 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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Faythe Levine: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-06-25 17:30 - 18:30
Faythe Levine
Faythe Levine; photo courtesy of Jacob Jennings, 2016
Monday, June 25, 5:30pm
Faythe Levine is the assistant curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Her curatorial vision and creative practice are focused on themes of community, creativity, awareness, process, empowerment and documentation. She has made it a priority that her projects stay approachable and accessible to a large audience, interacting with people in a way that establishes creativity as a vehicle towards personal independence.
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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"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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

Kris Grey: MFA Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-07-02 17:30 - 18:30
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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"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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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"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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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"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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.
Media Sponsor

"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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).
Header image
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.
Media Sponsor

"BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it."

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
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.

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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.
