Maine College of Art

'American Genre: Contemporary Painting' Exhibition
2017-07-20 11:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 (America/New_York) | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
The ICA at Maine College of Art & Design is free and open to the public. Wednesday–Sunday 11:00am–5:00pm, Thursday 11:00am–7:00pm, and First Fridays 11:00am–8:00pm.
American Genre: Contemporary Painting
Hope Gangloff, After Party, 2015, acrylic and collage on paper
On view from July 20, 2017 – September 15, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design is pleased to announce American Genre: Contemporary Painting curated by artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner. Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
American Genre: Contemporary Painting is an exhibition built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Fifty-two paintings by fifty-two American artists offers a critical balance to the conditions of atemporality, affected responses, and the material turn shaping much of contemporary painting discourse. Alternatively, this exhibition employs historically recognized groupings of subject and forms. Genres incorporate and invoke structures of knowledge by performing classification. Deeply embedded in everyday life, genre is conspicuous and powerful in its ability to chart historical continuity and differences through its organizing forces.

Artists include:
Still Life: Gina Beavers, Dana DeGiulio, Wendy Edwards, Francesca Fuchs, Hope Gangloff, Evan Gruzis, Angelina Gualdoni, Magalie Guerin, Jessica Halonen, Jonn Herschend, Tucker Nichols, Aliza Nisenbaum, Walter Robinson, Roger White, Griff Williams, Kelly S. Williams, Emi Winter, Mathew Zefeldt
Portraiture: Herman Aguirre, Lucas Ajemian, Deborah Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Brian Calvin, Susanna Coffey, Angela Dufresne, Andreas Fischer, Howard Fonda, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Keith Mayerson, Frank J. Stockton, Henry Taylor, Storm Tharp, Kehinde Wiley
Landscape: Dan Attoe, Peter Barrickman, Amy Bennett, Michael Berryhill, Patrick Chamberlain, Ann Craven, Paula Crown, Cynthia Daignault, Rackstraw Downes, Mari Eastman, Shara Hughes, Brad Killam, Eva Lundsager, Tyson Reeder, John Riepenhoff, Claire Sherman, Gail Spaien, Spencer Sweeney, Emily Sundblad
This exhibition will include an exhibition catalog that also functions as a genre reader. The exhibition will close with a one-day symposium hosted by Maine College of Art & Design, and featuring a panel discussion moderated by Barry Schwabsky on September 15, 2017.
For more information or to request an interview, please contact Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design (ICA), 207.699.5025 or ehutton@meca.edu.

Artist Lecture: Brandon Alvendia
2017-07-17 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 all graduate candidates.
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.
Brandon Alvendia
Brandon Alvendia, The Great Good Place install shot, exhibit organized by Brandon (l-r The Franklin, Ron Ewert and friends, Trunk Show and Scott Wolniak, filmfront) — The Great Good Place, Neon, 2015
Monday, July 17 at 5:30pm
Brandon Alvendia is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and educator. His interdisciplinary practice playfully engages spatial and social architectures to envision temporary utopias, regularly performing and exhibiting around North America in collaboration with various artist-run initiatives. He is the founder of multiple Chicago alternative spaces artLedge (2004-2007 w/ Caleb Lyons), BEN RUSSELL (2009-2011 w/Ben Russell), The Storefront (2010-2014), and art-publishing house Silver Galleon Press (2008-present). He was a recipient of the Propeller Fund in 2010, organized a three-act community-oriented experimental dramatic work, Chambre d’Amis, around the theme of place and memory for the Institute of American Art in Portland, ME in 2013, and continues to publish through Silver Galleon Press, which he expanded into a workshop to focus on its performative and communal aspects. As an artist-curator, his work supports the efforts of local and international artists by creating platforms for experimentation, discussion and collaboration. He is working on a nomadic research project ATLAS DRIFT, initiated through the Independent Curators International, based on artist-run culture with stops recently completed in Chicago (w/ threewalls) and Bergen, Norway (w/ Tag Team). Alvendia is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA ‘03) and University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA ‘07).
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Film: The Sacred Place Where Life Begins
2017-07-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Film: The Sacred Place Where Life Begins
Thursday, July 13, 5:30pm
Osher Hall, Second Floor, Porteous
Miho Aida will be screening her film, The Sacred Place Where Life Begins. The film documents women in the American Arctic and their efforts to protect it. Miho is an environmental educator originally from Japan and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to discussing her film, Miho provides opportunities to write letters to elected officials. Both adults and children in the audience are very moved by the experience.
In 2015, Miho biked from DC to Bar Harbor showing the film in campgrounds and libraries. She is now partnering with the Sierra Club and focusing attention on Ohio and Maine to enact change that may help protect this area.
From Miho
Hello, everyone! My name is Miho Aida. My first name Miho means to be a leader who demands for greater democracy for all people and protects culture and environment. My birthdate is the day when US Congress officially recognized as Women’s Equality Day. I aspire to live a life that honors my name and my birthdate. One of the ways that I live up to my name is to create an environmental media culture that gives a voice to women. In particular, I am committed to amplify a voice of women of color through films to counterbalance the lack of their representation in the environmental movement with a hope to provide role models for all girls.
This July, I am coming to Maine to share my award-winning short documentary called The Sacred Place Where Life Begins - Gwich'in Women Speak. In this short film, Arctic indigenous Gwich’in women call for a permanent protection of their sacred land in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from a potential oil development. The development would not only violate the rights of indigenous people but also integrity of humanity, and I feel strongly that I have a personal power and responsibility to stand in unity with the Gwich'in for the future generations.
I will be touring on my bicycle with a hope to help communicate the voice of the Gwich'in women and show how one woman can make a difference to protect our heritage that we all have responsibility to pass on to our future generations. Come see the film and be inspired to take action with us. Join the movement. See you in Maine!

Within the Landscape, Anne Ireland '94
2017-07-13 10:00 - 2017-09-10 16:00 | Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Within the Landscape, Anne Ireland '94
Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress Street, Portland Maine
Viewing Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm, Sundays 1:00pm–5:00pm, or by appointment.
Opening Reception: July 13, 2017, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Exhibition: July 13, 2017–September 10, 2017
First Friday Art Walks: August 4 & September 1, 2017, 5:00pm-8:00pm
Nancy Davidson, Curator
A graduate of Bowdoin College and the Maine College of Art & Design, Anne Ireland '94 is a native New Yorker whose ties to Maine began with her father who grew up on the Eastern Promenade, Portland. Today Ireland divides her time between her Maine and Sarasota Florida studios. Ireland has been the recipient of several residency fellowships, in California, Maine and Florida. Her work has been shown in exhibitions throughout New England, most recently at St.Botolph Club, Boston and Greenhut Galleries, Portland. Ireland was profiled in Maine Home and Design in 2013 and has had her work selected for two LLBean catalog covers. She is represented by The Gallery at Somes Sound in Somesville on Mount Desert Island. In her latest work, primarily of Maine where she still lives half the year on her family’s saltwater farm in Bath, Ireland explores nature as a place deep within self. Her palette has shifted, becoming more organic and naturalistic even as her brushwork relaxes, allowing for a hint of abstraction and a greater embrace of intuition. She seeks to create the landscape she wishes to inhabit, moving away from earlier work – horizons pursued, the long view sought – in favor of something more intimate and immediate. Her intention is less to render landscape than open it and invite one to enter it.

Talk with Hetritsab Gabra Rimtothe
2017-07-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Hetritsab Gabra Rimtothe
Osher Hall, Second Floor Porteous, Maine College of Art & Design
Tuesday, July 11, 7:00-9:00pm
Public Talk- "Kindness is your reliable guide to chaos".

Artist Lecture: Rose Marasco
2017-07-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 all graduate candidates.
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.
Rose Marasco
Rose Morasco, Interior Number 5, From the series Interiors, 2008, Archival Inkjet print, 45 x 35 inches
Monday, July 10 at 5:30pm
Rose Marasco is a prolific photographer and an award winning educator. Her photographs were subject to a large survey at the Portland Museum of Art in 2015. Additionally, her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and the Houston Center for Photography. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Southern Maine. Marasco developed the photography program at USM where she taught for 35 years. Prior to coming to Maine, Marasco initiated the photography program at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in her hometown, Utica, NY.
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Down East Enterprise, Inc., is a multimedia company based in Camden, Maine. The company’s flagship publication, Down East: The Magazine of Maine, is the largest paid-circulation magazine dedicated to the Pine Tree State. For nearly six decades, Down East has been the authority on Maine, and today continues to capture the reader’s attention with an insider look at contemporary life in Maine. People who love Maine love Down East.

RETROSPECTIVE, Portland’s Metals Collective Through the Years
2017-07-07 11:00 - 2017-08-20 17:00 | ICA at MECA&D, 522 Congress St., Portland, Maine, 04101, United States
RETROSPECTIVE, Portland’s Metals Collective Through the Years
Artists at Work Gallery, First Floor, Porteous
Opening Party: July 7th, 5:00pm–8:00pm
On view: July 7—August 20, 2017
The Metals Collective was founded by Maine College of Art & Design Alumni in 2010, and now after 7 years includes more than 25 participating members who to date have put on more than a dozen group shows at local venues, with themes ranging from poison rings to absinthe spoons, pickle forks to tussie mussies. This RETROSPECTIVE will give the public the unique opportunity to revisit these group shows and to see the evolutionary work of 7 individual members, including many pieces available for purchase. Come see what our passionate community of metalsmiths has been up to!
Featured Artists: Ann Thompson, Cat Bates, Emily Percival, Maria Wolff, Mary Forst, Naomi McNeill & Shelby Goldsmith
Viewing Hours: ​​Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00am-6:00pm, Fridays & Saturdays, 11:00am-7:00pm, Sundays: 12:00pm–5:00pm
A selection of works from Piercing the Pickle, 2015, The Bearded Lady's Jewel Box.(Left to Right) Emily Percival, Pickle Fork, Sterling Silver. Maria Wolff, Left Handed Relish Spoon, Sterling Silver. Nicholas Downing, Pickle Fork, Steel.

Artist Lecture: Ruth Erickson
2017-07-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 all graduate candidates.
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.
Ruth Erickson
Liza Voll, photographer
Wednesday, July 5 at 5:30pm
Ruth Erickson is Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She co-curated the major exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 with Helen Molesworth and has organized exhibitions of the work of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Ethan Murrow at the ICA/Boston. She is currently at work on the first U.S. survey of Mark Dion’s work to open in 2017. Erickson received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and has published and presented her writing widely. She serves as a visiting critic at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Down East Enterprise, Inc., is a multimedia company based in Camden, Maine. The company’s flagship publication, Down East: The Magazine of Maine, is the largest paid-circulation magazine dedicated to the Pine Tree State. For nearly six decades, Down East has been the authority on Maine, and today continues to capture the reader’s attention with an insider look at contemporary life in Maine. People who love Maine love Down East.

Dreamy & Surreal
2017-06-30 - 2017-10-20 | Macpage, 30 Long Creek Drive, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Dreamy & Surreal
MacPage, 30 Long Creek Dr, South Portland, Maine
On view through October 20, tours/visits must be scheduled

This exhibition features MECA&D alum Celeste Roberge '79 and includes alums Rachael Eastman '94 and Michelle Stuckey '07. Also included are MECA&D faculty and students from various programs.
To schedule a tour of the Macpage exhibits, please email Ralph Hendrix at rrh@macpage.com.
Chris Beneman, Diane Dahlke, Rachael Eastman '94, Rebecca Hayes, Richard Hutchins, Jean Kigel, Julie Lapping Rivera, Mike Libby, Kimberly Lyons, Pamela Moulton, Judy O'Donnell, Alex Rheault, Cheyenne Stubbs, Deb Whitney, Mary Longley, Anne Hecker, Jane Banquer, Maya Kuvaja, Mary Brooking, Michelle Stuckey '07, Cheslye Ventimiglia, and Margareta McDonald
Celeste Roberge '79 lives and works in South Portland. She is Professor Emerita, University of Florida, where she was Head of Sculpture in the School of Art + Art History for twenty-two years. She holds the following degrees: MFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA Maine College of Art & Design, BA in Sociology and Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine.
Celeste Roberge '79 has received numerous awards and fellowships. In 2013 she held a residency in the Arts/Industry Program at Kohler in Wisconsin. In 2010 and 2011, she initiated her current work with seaweed as a resident artist at Baie Ste.Marie/Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia, sponsored by the Maine College of Art & Design. She was a resident artist at SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2007. She has received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Celeste’s sculptures, drawings and prints are included in museums and private collections throughout the United States.
Emily Barrera is an Alfred University BFA graduate of 2014. Emily currently works out of the Button Factory Studios in Portsmouth, NH and has exhibited her work in both upstate New York and New England. She shows a dreamlike quality in her work, illustrating narratives with a quiet mysteriousness to them. She often uses the fresh linear elements of drawing in her paintings that are more rendered and realistic, layering them together to make another strange and surreal compositions.
Meeting While Walking Under the Sea, Algae, textiles, paper, ink, 2016, 15" x 11.25"

Collect: Summer Art Sale
2017-06-29 10:00 - 2017-07-01 18:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Join Us for our Summer Art Sale
June 29 - July 1 at MECA&D's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA at MECA&D)
Featuring the original works of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, proceeds benefit MECA&D’s Student Scholarship Fund to enable the next generation of artists to pursue their talents.
A Sampling of Featured Work:

See the list of Featured Artists.
Open to the Public June 29 - July 1
The Art Sale is held in MECA&D’s ICA within the Porteous Building, 522 Congress St, Portland, Maine.

Shop: 10am-6pm, Thursday, June 29
Shop: 10am-6pm, Friday, June 3
Shop: 10am-6pm, Saturday, July 1
Maine College of Art & Design presents Collect: MECA&D’s Summer Art Sale 2017, June 29 - July 1, a fundraiser in support of MECA&D’s Student Scholarship Fund. This three-day, salon-style extravaganza is a great opportunity to discover emerging artists, view new work by established artists, and build or add to an art collection. The art sale features a unique, diverse and unexpected array of original work in a variety of genres with a range of sizes, prices, and media, including furniture, sculpture, jewelry, paintings, prints, photography, textiles, drawings, and more. One to five works are priced by the artists and sold to benefit MECA&D, with 50% and 25% commission or full donation options.
For more information, email collect@meca.edu
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Artist Lecture: Tamara Gonzales
2017-06-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 all graduate candidates.
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.
Tamara Gonzales
I Am The Hummingbird77 x60 in acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2016
Monday, June 26 at 5:30pm
Originally from California Tamara Gonzales has lived and worked in New York for more than three decades. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Shoot the Lobster and Martos Gallery, Sargent’s Daughters, Regina Rex, Sometimes (works of art), Norte Maar, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Her work has recently been featured in the New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York City.
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Down East Enterprise, Inc., is a multimedia company based in Camden, Maine. The company’s flagship publication, Down East: The Magazine of Maine, is the largest paid-circulation magazine dedicated to the Pine Tree State. For nearly six decades, Down East has been the authority on Maine, and today continues to capture the reader’s attention with an insider look at contemporary life in Maine. People who love Maine love Down East.

Artist Lecture: Jesse Small
2017-06-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, 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 all graduate candidates.
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.
Jesse Small
Jesse Small, Aurora Arbor 2016. Stainless Steel throughout. 11’ x 26’ x 4’.
Monday, June 19 at 5:30pm
Jesse is currently an artist in residence at Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. Prior to that he has worked and shown in numerous places, including Vallauris, France, Jingdezhen, China, and Ernabella, Australia. These experiences have led Jesse to combine a unique range of primitive and high tech processes from distant corners of the globe. His work has consistently incorporated local culture and techniques. Present in all his work is questioning selected norms. This is done using great attention to craft in sculptures that elevate simple utilitarian forms, that are themselves utilitarian, or made from found objects. Recently his work with shadows asks the viewer to trade permanence for an object that reveals cycles. In any case, Jesse's range in scale and materials reflect a studio process formed by the moments necessity rather than overarching ideals or dogma.
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Down East Enterprise, Inc., is a multimedia company based in Camden, Maine. The company’s flagship publication, Down East: The Magazine of Maine, is the largest paid-circulation magazine dedicated to the Pine Tree State. For nearly six decades, Down East has been the authority on Maine, and today continues to capture the reader’s attention with an insider look at contemporary life in Maine. People who love Maine love Down East.

Maine Startup & Create Week '17
2017-06-19 08:00 - 2017-06-23 17:00 | ME
Celebrate entrepreneurship, cultivate creativity, and drive high-impact innovation at Maine Startup & Create Week, June 19-23, 2017.
This Year's Theme: Start stronger. Scale smarter. Solve better.
At Maine College of Art & Design, the art of creative entrepreneurship is one of our core values. We provide each student the necessary professional skills to transform aspirations and values into a creative practice.
Maine Startup & Create Week brings a week of learning, interviews with leaders, hands-on workshops, and social events all focused on creative entrepreneurship and community leadership.
“The speakers, including two startup founders with Maine ties, were picked to help encourage Maine residents who want to develop high-growth, high-impact companies to flourish in a state that is geared toward more traditional small-business models, said event founder Jess Knox, a Portland-based business consultant. Mainers excel at launching small businesses, and hard work, but often lack the opportunity to hear from people ‘who have big aspirations to grow a world-class company,’ Knox said.” — Penelope Overton, Portland Press Herald
To learn more about the schedule of events, or to buy tickets, click here.

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MECA&D Presents: An Evening of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Discussion
2017-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
MECA&D Presents: An Evening of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Discussion
When: Thursday June 1st at 7pm
Where: Osher Hall at MECA&D
What: Co-hosted by Mark Curdo and Steve Drown
A panel of Beatles fans and experts will be discussing the impact and significance of the The Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Originally released in the UK on June 1st,1967, the album set the stage for pop music and the album format to be considered as a higher art form. On May 26th, 2017, a 6-disc box set was released by Universal Music along with single-disc, 2-disc and vinyl sets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the album.
Following a discussion of the new rerelease of the album, MECA&D will host a listening event in their recording studio in the lower level.
Special Guests & Bios:
Allan Kozinn
Allan Kozinn was a classical music critic for the New York Times – and essentially the paper’s Beatles desk – for 38 years, until he retired and moved to Portland in 2014. He now contributes reviews to the Wall Street Journal and the Portland Press Herald, and still writes occasionally for the Times. The author of two books about the Beatles – “The Beatles: From the Cavern to the Rooftop” (Phaidon, 1995) and “Got That Something!: How the Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ Changed Everything” (Times Books, 2013) – Allan is also a co-host of “Things We Said Today,” a weekly Beatles podcast.
Pat Callaghan
News anchor and reporter for WCSH6 for more than 35 years, and Beatlemaniac since 1964. A fellow who has helped make Messers Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starkey rich men.
Kate Beever
Kate Beever, originally from Gorham, Maine, studied at the USM School of Music and then worked for Frank Glazer before moving to New York City. She is now a Board Certified Music Therapist with a Master’s degree in Music Psychotherapy from New York University. While in New York, she interned at Beth Israel Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She returned to the fresh air of Maine to open Maine Music & Health. She works with clients of all ages with cancer, autism, cerebral palsy, brain injury, depression, developmental disabilities, dementia, and respiratory diseases. Kate presents at conferences and facilitates group and individual sessions while keeping an active performing schedule as a pianist and percussionist. She is also a trained REMO HealthRhythms facilitator and has her certification in Neurologic Music Therapy.
Chris Brown
Long time employee of Bull Moose Music and Head of Marketing. Chris is the originator of Record Store Day.
Herb Ivy
Morning radio personality at WBLM,Herb Ivy has been rocking on The Blimp since 1985. A Member of The Maine Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He is a Trustee of the Portland Music Foundation, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Maine Association of Broadcasters and on the Marketing Committee for The Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine. An avid runner, guitar player in the BLM Band, and Sox, Bruins and Patriots fan, The Captain has piloted the Blimp longer than any DJ in BLM history.
Bill O’Neil
Bill O’Neil bought his first 45 in January 1962. It was The Wanderer by Dion. A graduate of Cheverus High School in 1968 and Fairfield University, Bill first worked professionally in radio in 1972. He owned Bill O’Neil’s House Of Rock “N Roll, a music store in Saco from 1988 until 2012. Still on the radio 45 years later, he currently hosts Bill O’Neil’s Forgotten Forty Fives Sunday evenings on WWSF in Sanford and WNBP in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Tim Tierney
Owner and manager of The Studio in Portland, ME, Tim has been in the recording studio business for over 35 years.
Margo Halverson
Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at MECA&D, co-founder and designer at Alice Design Communication, an award‐winning graphic design studio.
Kevin Oates
Kevin Oates is the Founder and Executive Director of Maine Youth Rock Orchestra (MYRO), a non-profit organization that gives orchestral students of all ages the opportunity to perform with national touring artists. MYRO has accompanied 28 artists to date in 8 states, and have released 5 singles since MYRO’s launch in 2014. Maine Youth Rock Orchestra was the first youth orchestra to tour with a national band in history and has been part of the Annual Beatles Night in Portland since 2015.
Mark Curdo
Host of WCYY's new music / local music show, "Spinout". Director of Lifestyle and Entertainment Branding at Shipyard Brewing Company.
Steve Drown
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Bob Crewe Program in Art & Music at MECA&D. Steve has also been the senior engineer at The Studio for over 20 years.

106th MECA&D Commencement
2017-05-13 10:00 | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 10:00am at the State Theatre located at 609 Congress Street, Portland, Maine.
Download the 2017 Commencement invitation.
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.

How can I see my student's work?
The Thesis Exhibition is open, free of charge to the public, starting on First Friday, May 5, 2017.

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
2017-05-12 11:00 - 2017-06-09 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
On view from May 12, 2017 – June 9, 2017
Exhibition Opening: Friday, May 12, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
FFAW: Friday, June 2, 2017, 5:00-8:00pm (closing event)
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)
Maine College of Art & Design is pleased to announce the 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition spotlights works by nine graduating artists, and represents a synthesis of each student’s experience in Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA Program in Studio Art. The MFA Thesis Exhibition features work in a variety of media and surveys a range of conceptual themes and creative approaches that characterize the global cultural landscape and contemporary art practice.
Featuring: Sarah Emch, Megan Franasiak, Crystal Gale Phelps, Shelby Wynne Richardson, Dayna Riemland, Jose Rodriguez, Jr., Renee Sawyer, Benjamin Spalding and Louise Coupar-Stamat.
Renee Sawyer, November 4th (Waiting), 2016, digital photograph, 12.75” X 17.5”
Benjamin Spalding, Middle School Milagro, 2017, Nails, resin, lacrosse shorts
Louise Coupar-Stamat, Seed, a stratified woman, 2017, Performance, Clay and Women
Sarah Emch, Involuntary, Detailed Video Still, 2017
Megan Franasiak, From I’m Handling It Pretty Well These Days, 2017, gouache on vellum, 36” x 50”
Crystal Gale Phelps, Sawing A Woman In Half, 2016, Performance, 47 minutes
Shelby Wynne Richardson, Will you pet my pussy?, 2016 , Mixed media artist book, 3x9x9
Dayna Riemland, Watcher (detail) 2017, hand embroidery on cotton, 36 x 48”
Jose Rodriguez Jr, This Land Is My Land, still from digital video, 2017

MECA&Dmorphosis 2017: BFA Thesis Exhibition
2017-05-05 09:00 - 2017-05-23 17:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Friday, May 5, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
The 2017 Thesis Exhibition Opening will be held in conjunction with the First Friday Artwalk. This year's exhibition features work by over 100 graduating students in our BFA program. Light fare and interactive art on Floors 1, 2 and 3 of the Porteous Building. Free and open to the public. The BFA Thesis Exhibition will be on view through May 23.
For more information contact Dietlind Vander Schaaf at 699.5012 or dvanderschaaf@meca.edu.
Artwork in header is by Greta Wilsterman '17
» View Senior Thesis Online

MECA&Dmorphosis Fashion Runway Show
2017-05-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
MECA&Dmorphosis celebrates MECA&D's graduating professional artists and raises critical scholarship funds to educate the next generation of artists. This year, MECA&Dmorphosis consists of two separate events. The Runway Fashion Show is on Thursday, May 4, and the BFA Thesis Exhibition is on Friday, May 5, 2017.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, Show Starts at 7:30, Doors Open at 7:00
The Runway Fashion Show in the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) features work by students in our Textile & Fashion Design Program and raises critical support for MECA&D’s Student Scholarship Fund. The Textile & Fashion Design Program at MECA&D was created through a generous gift from Roxanne Quimby.
We are happy to report that this event has SOLD OUT!!
Please contact Dietlind Vander Schaaf at dvanderschaaf@meca.edu for wait list info.

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VRAGE Exhibition
2017-04-26 11:00 - 2017-04-28 20:00 | ME
VRAGE: The Virtual Reality Art Gallery Experience
On view from April 26, 2017 – April 28, 2017, Closing Event: Fri., April 28, 5:00-8:00pm
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design
ICA Gallery hours: Wed, 11:00am–5:00pm, Thurs, 11:00am–7:00pm, Friday, 11:00am–5:00pm
The Virtual Reality Art Gallery Experience, or VRAGE, is an exploration of the parallel progression of the worlds of technology and fine art, utilizing virtual reality to add context to the typical gallery experience and to showcase art in creative, immersive ways.
Without the restrictions of real-world environments, VRAGE transcends the idea of what an art gallery is supposed to be. Rather than the gallery existing as a separate entity from the art, VRAGE collectively acts as a piece of art in itself. Through game development and 3D modeling techniques, we have the opportunity to tailor individual galleries to represent the vision of the artists in ways that a traditional gallery room could not accomplish. The optimization of space also plays a key role; VRAGE will contain multiple individual gallery rooms within the confines of an eight foot by eight foot play space.

Seeds of Resilience
2017-04-22 17:00 - 20:00 | thomas knight park, 18 Ocean St, South Portland, ME, 04106, United States
Seeds of Resilience
Thomas Knight Park
Earth Day, April 22, 5:00-8​​:00pm
You are invited to a celebration under the bridge, in Thomas Knight Park on Earth Day to take part in Ellanor Milkowski Dahlgren's MECA&D Public Engagement Capstone event!
There will be speakers from Resilient Portland, Portland Trails and other institutions promoting sustainability within the city. They will be speaking on topics of positive energy, food, waste, liveable cities and sea change!
Ella is partnering with Resilient Portland who is making a map of the groups within the city who are working toward a more sustainable and resilient community. The event will be celebrating the release of this map and highlighting a number of the groups listed!
The lineup for music and performers will be: Myles Bullen, Visitor10, Thomas Aeroson, and more to be announced soon!
There will possibly be fire-spinning by local artists, food, and a post event, geo-cache/scavenger hunt for the fairies!
Bring a dance partner, a random person you met on the street, your friends and family, or just your self!
This is a free event done for the sake of our planet and all creatures and ecosystems local and worldwide, as well as in the spirit of Ella's art and thesis project. All proceeds will be paid to our musicians and performers who help make this gathering possible!

Film & Discussion: Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World
2017-04-07 19:00 - 20:00 | ME
Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 7:00pm in Osher Hall
Hosted by the MECA&D Diversity Committee, this event is free and open to the MECA&D community and general public. Part of First Friday Art Walk activities.
Refugee Kids is a short documentary that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world's most volatile conflicts. The film presents an intimate, emotionally gripping account of the students' stories of escaping war and conflict and resettling in America, chronicling their triumphs and setbacks as their lives unfold over the course of one formative summer. Refugee Kids humanizes complex geopolitics and depict the challenges and urgency of immigration to American in an increasingly dangerous and interconnected world.
Reza Jalali and Ekhlas Ahmed will lead a discussion about the film immediately following the 46-minute film.

Reza Jalali, recognized as one of the eminent ethnic Americans in Making it in America: a sourcebook on eminent ethnic Americans (©2001by Elliott Robert Barkan) and named as one of Maine’s 50 leaders by Maine Magazine in 2016, is a writer, educator, and human rights activist. As a member of Amnesty International USA Board of Directors, Jalali has led delegations to different refugee camps in Turkey and Bosnia. He has participated in numerous United Nations-sponsored international conferences. In 1992, he visited the White House as part of a national delegation to discuss the plight of Kurdish refugees fleeing Iraq. Reza manages the Office of USM Multicultural Student Affairs and advises Muslim students at Bowdoin College.
Ms. Ekhlas Ahmed, a refugee and a civil rights activist from Darfur, Sudan, fled with her family to Egypt and lived there for two years before being resettled in Portland, Maine in 2005. She has since graduated high school with honors and earned a degree in sociology from University of Southern Maine with hopes of helping resettle refugees. She is the vice President and Co-founder of Darfur Youth of Tomorrow, an organization raising awareness related to the violence and unmet needs in Darfur. Currently Ms. Ahmed is an AmeriCorps member educating, helping to motivate Multilingual & Multicultural students through the Make It Happen Program at the Casco Bay High School.
For more information about the film: Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World

'Evolving Perceptions' Exhibition
2017-04-07 10:00 - 2017-04-19 17:00 | ICA at MECA&D, 522 Congress St., Portland, Maine, 04101, United States
Evolving Perceptions
Large open jar, Stoneware, Kaolin slip, Laterite slip, Wood Ash. Atmospheric fired with gas, 2017, 31 x 18 x 18
Explorations in Clay: Adrian King '12
Artists at Work Exhibition Space
April 7—April 19, 2017
Evolving Perceptions is a showing of functional and sculptural wares that are exploring a conversation between surface, form and the ever changing perspective of functional objects. Adrian King recently worked as an apprentice to a production potter in North Carolina by the name of Mark Hewitt. There he learned to produce functional pottery at a high standard keeping with pottery traditions tied to english slipware and southern folk pottery. Since his time working in North Carolina, he has been developing a body of work that speaks of the relationship of his interests in atmospheric firing with gas and wood, and the skills and techniques he learned as an apprentice. He hopes to be able to capture the beauty of the materials used through simple yet activating surfaces that speak true to the process of the craft.

Gallery Talk: Curator Susanne Slavick of 'UNLOADED'
2017-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Please join us for a Gallery Talk with Curator Susanne Slavick on Thursday, April 6, 2017, 6:00-7:30pm.
Renee Stout, Baby's First Gun, 1998
Curated by Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University; UNLOADED is a multimedia group show that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture. It includes works by: Lauren F. Adams, Nina Berman, Joshua Bienko, Casey Li Brander, Anthony Cervino, Mel Chin, Cathy Colman, Dadpranks, James Duesing, Jessica Fenlon, Vanessa German, Jinshan, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Jennifer Nagle Myers, Adrian Piper, Don Porcella, Devan Shimoyama, Susanne Slavick, Renee Stout and Stephanie Syjuco.
UNLOADED presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by 19 artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and use of firearms, across demographic categories. They examine and represent the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies, suicide rates, individual and mass murder, domestic violence, and the militarization of civilian life.
Gun ownership and control is a divisive topic in this country. The artists in UNLOADED visualize the power of the gun as icon and instrument, the damage it can do and how weapons might be rejected, broken or silenced. Some show the power that guns wield in our daily realities and personal fantasies. Others mourn and resist that power, doing everything they can to take it away, believing there are better ways to resolve conflicts, ensure safety and keep the peace.
UNLOADED is touring to ten venues across the country.

Artist Lecture: Ian Lynam Design
2017-04-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Ian Lynam Design
Thursday, April 6, 12:00pm
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.

Ian Lynam Design is a multidisciplinary creative studio specializing in unique solutions for international clients. The studio has been based in Tokyo since 2005. Ian Lynam Design is a Tokyo design studio operating at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. We specialize in identity, cultural research and typography. We make stuff for forward-thinking humans.
Ian Lynam speaks internationally on a range of topics from Japanese typography to cultural concepts revolving around design. Presentations tend to wind and weave through aesthetic trends and analysis, graphic design history, design criticism, and political economy.

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Evening with Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends
2017-04-03 20:00 - 22:00 | one longfellow square, 181 state street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
In partnership with Maine College of Art & Design and Portland Conservatory of Music, One Longfellow Square and the Armenian Cultural Association of Maine is pleased to announce an evening with Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends on April 3, 2017 at 8:00pm at One Longfellow Square. Tickets are $20 in advance and available online or by calling OLS at 207.761.1757.
Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends is a jazz-folk band based in Yerevan, Armenia. The band was formed in 2011 with the goal of introducing jazz to the tar (a folk instrument used across the Caucasus and Iran), immediately standing out as a fresh, modern sound in world music. Voskanyan takes the lead on the tar, known for its long neck and soothing tones. Although historically heard in traditional folk music, Voskanyan’s band has given the tar a new identity and, as a result, has created a new genre of music that fuses old and new to produce something wholly unique - an alluring concoction of jazz, folk, rock, and classic Armenian melodies. Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends has performed around the world, including China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Russia, Turkey, the UEA and the USA. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2014. They are set to release their second album, Nightology, in spring 2017.
In 2013, "Miqayel Voskanyan & friends" won the "Best Band of the Year" award at the Radio Van Music Awards. In spring 2014, the band received a special invitation to perform at the Made In New York Jazz Competition Gala Concert in New York City and had the opportunity to play at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center NY with legendary jazz artists Randy Brecker and Lenny White. In the summer of the same year, the band received an invitation for representing Armenia at Caucasus Cultural Festival held in Seoul ( South Korea). After recording their debut CD album in summer of 2015,
"Miqayel Voskanyan & friends" band had the honour to represent Armenia at the MIDEM festival in Cannes, France. In August 2015, the band took part in International Ethnic Festival Krutushka at Kazan city ( Russia).
The band features Miqayel Voskanyan on tar, Arman Peshtmaljyan behind the keys, Gurgen Ghazaryan slapping the bass and Movses Ghazaryan on drums. Singer and accordionist of the Collectif Metz Basar, Sevana Tchakerian will join them on stage as a special guest.
The Armenian Cultural Association (ACA) of Maine was founded in 2003 by a group of Mainers who wished to preserve the history and culture of a unique branch of the Armenian diaspora. President of Maine’s ACA, Gerard Kiladjian, has lived in Portland since 2000 and is excited to be partnering with other Portland-based cultural institutions to bring world-class musicianship from the other side of the world to Portland. Kiladjian said, “Music has always been a universal language and way to bring people of all backgrounds together, and this group bridges a wide range of cultural and geographic inspiration. Music lovers of all ages and backgrounds will be mesmerized by Miqayel’s ability to artfully blend traditional jazz elements with traditional Armenian music.”
Maine's Armenian community is one of the oldest in America. The first immigrants arrived here in the late 19th century to escape growing persecution in Turkey. Hundreds more would arrive by the time of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. Successive waves of new immigrants and their descendants now make Maine their home.
Please contact Raffi Der Simonian at rdersimonian@gmail.com or 207.756.0916 for guest list, interviews, media requests and more information.
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Portfolio Day
2017-03-31 15:30 - 17:00 | 380 Cumberland Avenue, 380 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Portfolio Day is an ongoing annual collaboration between MECA&D’s Artists at Work program and AIGA Maine. The event offers students the chance to share their portfolios with a broad spectrum of professionals ranging from creative directors, to independent artists, local publishers and in-house teams.
Portfolio Day is open to MECA&D, SMCC, and USM students majoring in Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration, and Digital Media. This year the event will be held on Friday, March 31 from 3:30pm to 5pm in MECA&D's newly opened space at 380 Cumberland Avenue.
For more information regarding this event please contact Jessica Tomlinson, Director of Artists at Work at jtomlinson@meca.edu or 207.699.5016.
Learn more here.

Justice for Women Lecture Series: Storytelling Event & Write-in
2017-03-22 12:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Justice for Women Lecture Series: Storytelling Event and Write-in
MECA&D is teaming up with the Justice for Women Lecture Series, presented by the University of Maine School of Law, and the USM Office of Multicultural Student Affairs to host a storytelling event and write-in on Wednesday, March 22 from 12:00pm–1:30pm in the ICA. Joining us from Malaysia, Zainah Anwar, a leading voice in the Muslim feminist movement, will encourage others to tell their stories by sharing her own.

Want to help?
There is no action without inspiration.
In addition to attending the event, you can donate postcards and supplies for the event. We want these stories to inspire participants to write messages of hope to their senators, representatives, family members, or friends. Our state is home to over 8,000 new Mainers who are Muslim, making this awareness raising event as much a local issue as it is global.
For questions contact Shiva Darbandi at diversity@meca.edu.

'UNLOADED' Exhibition
2017-03-16 09:00 - 2017-04-14 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
UNLOADED
On view from March 16, 2017 – April 14, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, April 7, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
FFAW: Friday, April 7, 2017, 5:00-8:00pm
ICA Gallery hours: Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm, Thurs, 11:00am–7:00pm, Friday, 11:00am–5:00pm, (FFAW until 8:00pm)
Curated by Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University; UNLOADED is a multimedia group show that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture. It includes works by: Lauren F. Adams, Nina Berman, Joshua Bienko, Casey Li Brander, Anthony Cervino, Mel Chin, Cathy Colman, Dadpranks, James Duesing, Jessica Fenlon, Vanessa German, Jinshan, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Laura Karetzky, Jennifer Nagle Myers, Adrian Piper, Don Porcella, Devan Shimoyama, Susanne Slavick, Renee Stout and Stephanie Syjuco.
UNLOADED presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by 19 artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and use of firearms, across demographic categories. They examine and represent the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies, suicide rates, individual and mass murder, domestic violence, and the militarization of civilian life.
Gun ownership and control is a divisive topic in this country. The artists in UNLOADED visualize the power of the gun as icon and instrument, the damage it can do and how weapons might be rejected, broken or silenced. Some show the power that guns wield in our daily realities and personal fantasies. Others mourn and resist that power, doing everything they can to take it away, believing there are better ways to resolve conflicts, ensure safety and keep the peace.
UNLOADED is touring to ten venues across the country.
Image from Previous Page: Mel Chin, 'Cross for the Unforgiven: 10th Anniversary Multiple' (2012)

Jenny Scheinman Lecture
2017-03-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Jenny Scheinman
Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait

Jenny Scheinman will give a lecture discussing the vision behind Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait and the inspiration for her live score in Osher Hall at 12:30pm on Thursday, March 9. Further information about the artist, her project, and upcoming performance can be found at Portland Ovations.
Free and open to the public.
"In her new multi-media project, acclaimed composer, singer, and violinist Jenny Scheinman invites us into the captivating visual world of Depression-era filmmaker H. Lee Waters. Scheinman is joined by guitarist Robbie Fulks (who is “so good, it’s scary” according to The Chicago Tribune) and banjoist Robbie Gjersoe to create a live soundtrack of new folksongs, fiddle music, and field sounds to accompany this fascinating footage of small town America, masterfully reworked into a new film by director Finn Taylor. The humanity in these songs and images bares a transcendent, universal quality that speaks to any community."

This Week: 'Eve of a Hundred Midnights' Book Signing & Reading
2017-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 | PhotoLab, 522 Congress Street, PORTLAND, ME, 04101, United States
Please join us on Wednesday, March 8, at 6:00pm for a book signing and reading with Bill Lascher Salt '02 for his book Eve of a Hundred Midnights. This event takes place in the PhotoLab, located in the Lower Level of the Porteous Building. Free and open to the public.

Eve of a Hundred Midnights
Eve of a Hundred Midnights tells the true story of two newlywed war correspondents’ island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the fall of Manila. The book charts the career of Melville Jacoby, who covered China and the Philippines during World War II, and recounts how Mel’s love for China and journalism brought him into the orbit of MGM scriptwriter-turned-journalist Annalee Whitmore, who he married in Manila barely a week before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Portland, Oregon-based author Bill Lascher, a relative of Jacoby’s and a 2002 graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, will discuss the book and how journalists like Mel and Annalee brought the oft-neglected conflict in China and the Philippines to U.S. audiences. Lascher will also discuss how he used archival sources from private and institutional collections to bring the Jacobys’ story to life.
Purchase the book here
Bill Lascher, Salt ’02
Artist Biography
Bill Lascher is a Portland, Oregon-based journalist whose work appears in Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, High Country News, the Oregonian, Portland Monthly and elsewhere. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and Oberlin College, Lascher studied history with a politics minor. Lascher also earned a master’s degree in 2009 in specialized journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
