World Premiere of Burrow: Revisited

Maine College of Art & Design presents the world premiere of Burrow: Revisited, a collaborative performance piece by sound artist Alex Waterman and Assistant Professor Seth Rogoff.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Mary Murray

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

Mary Murray has been curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at MWPAI since September 1991.

Matthew Day Jackson: Visiting Artist Lecture

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

Matthew Day Jackson’s multifaceted practice encompasses sculpture, painting, collage, photography, drawing, video, performance and installation.

Performance: ‘The Poets and the Assassin’

"The story of Iranian women, including their century-old battle for rights, remains with the few exceptions, untold. Though they have been in the forefront of the national struggle for independence, liberty and democracy in Iran, and have been among the most educated and most independent women in the Middle East-they entered universities in 1936 and gained the right to vote in 1963-to those in the West, their lives stay, for most part, in purdah, hidden and veiled in mystery.

Linda Casbon: Visiting Artist Lecture

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

Brooklyn artist Linda Casbon constructs functional clay objects and large-scale ceramic sculpture.

Rebecca Hannon: Visiting Artist Lecture

Rebecca Hannon Thursday, February 22, 12–1pm Osher Hall, Second Floor, Porteous Free, Open to the Public “I work in series and find each new grouping a challenge to create tension between the story, and the right medium to evoke meaning. Materials are endless; one must search and then concentrate to find the subtle message found […]

“Recuperating Capitalism: Omer Fast & Sharon Hayes”: Marie B. Shurkus Lecture

College Art Association Annual Conference 2018 Feb 21, 2018–Feb 24, 2018 LA Convention Center 1201 S Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90015 Professor Marie B. Shurkus (Program Chair and Professor of Art History at Maine College of Art & Design) will be giving a talk on the recuperation of the Brecht-ian notion of critical distance […]