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 […]

Zine Fair: Submission Deadline 2/28

Artists at Work Project Space 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, United States

Zine Club and MECA&D Public Engagement present.. Zine Fair 2018 Open Call for Artists to submit to the 3rd Annual Spring Zine Fair! Participation is open to both MECA&D and non-MECA&D students who are interested. The Zine Fair will be open for March's First Friday Art Walk and is on view February 28–March 18, 2018. […]

Rollin Leonard: Visiting Artist Lecture

A Portland, Maine and Los Angeles based photographer and video artist, Rollin Leonard uses arcane and idiosyncratic techniques and materials to create offbeat and provocative portraits and images of the human figure.

‘Till the Night’ Exhibition – Kyle Patnaude

Brooklyn Metal Works 640 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Kyle Patnaude’s (Assistant Professor in Metalsmithing & Jewelry) work explores the emotive and humanistic coding of objects, specifically a certain “queerness” pertaining to the cultural guise of hypermasculinity.