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"

Artist Lecture: Ruth Erickson
2017-07-05 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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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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: 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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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".

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.

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!

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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'American Genre: Contemporary Painting' Exhibition
2017-07-20 11:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 | 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.

Pickwick Independent Press Print Fair
2017-07-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Congress Square Park, Portland, 04101
Pickwick Independent Press, a community printmaking facility located in Portland's downtown Arts District, will hold its second annual Pickwick and Friends Print Fair on Saturday, July 22, 2017, from 10 AM to 4 PM, in Congress Square Park. The Director of Pickwick Press is Pilar Nadal MFA '13 and was founded by Lisa Pixley '07
Pickwick Independent Press is organizing the Fair in conjunction with the Friends of Congress Square Park. More than 25 Maine printmakers, collectives, and organizations will exhibit and sell their work, including Pickwick Independent Press, Wolfe Editions, members from Running with Scissors, members from Peregrine Press, Future Mothers, Wing Club Press, Publication Studio, Lisa Pixley, Hannah Hermes, Scott Minzy, and more! Participants will demonstrate a variety of printmaking processes and will sell hand printed fine art, functional wares, cards and stationery, and everything in between.

The Print Fair will highlight some of the amazing printmaking currently being done in Maine, and will draw attention to the many makers of multiples in the state.
Alumni participating: Lisa Pixley '07, Hannah Hermes '15, Shayna Blumert '13, Kate Katomski MFA '02, Jodi Ferry '14, Kristina Buckley '15, Hope Rovelto '01, Emma Wolfsohn '17, Ashley Hall '16, Sara Inacio '17, John Costello '15, Shawn Brewer '12, Carter Shappy '15, Kris Johnsen '08, Emily Seekins '14, Debbie Schmitt '04
Faculty participating: Elizabeth Jabar, Asst. Dean & Director of Public Engagement, Program Chair of Printmaking; Colleen Kinsella, Faculty of Printmaking; Crystal Cawley, CS Instructor
The complete list of exhibitors can be found here.
A rain date has been planned for: Sunday, July 23, 2017, from 10:00am–4:00pm

'Wreckage Salad' Exhibition
2017-07-22 13:00 - 2017-08-19 16:00 | Ocean House Gallery, 299 Ocean Road, Cape Elizabeth, ME, United States
Adriane Herman, the Chair of the MFA in Studio Art, has an exhibition opening for Wreckage Salad on Saturday, July 22, from 1:00–4:00pm. The exhibition is at the Ocean House Gallery & Frame, located at 299 Ocean Road in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The exhibition is on view until August 19; the visiting hours of the gallery are Wed–Friday, 10:00am–5:00pm; Sat, 10:00am–4:00pm.
Adriane Herman, "Wreckage Salad (Big White Board)," 2016, monotype, 21.5 x 28 inches
Adriane Herman’s series of monotypes entitled Wreckage Salad is collaboratively created, inspired by parti-colored piles of castoff wood, which physically dwarf, and aesthetically vie with, much contemporary art. Each print is a unique impression of an ephemeral arrangement of hand-colored shapes representing material found in the municipal woodpile in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the artist’s home.
Testaments to tidal cycles of accumulation and release, these intimate yet anonymous heaps of barely controlled chaos materially manifest expansion, destruction, renovation, aspiration, failure, labor, entropy, and the inexorable march from birth to death, with (if we’re lucky) many trips to the dump or curb in between.
Ocean House Gallery owner/framer, Graham Wood has framed Herman’s monotypes using reclaimed maple wood flooring, material that otherwise might have found its way to the same woodpile that inspired Herman’s work.
Herman has exhibited and lectured widely, and has work in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is a Professor at Maine College of Art & Design. Her ongoing collaboration called The Freeing Throwers was profiled on NPR.

Artist Lecture: Keith Boadwee
2017-07-24 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.
Keith Boadwee
Keith Boadwee, Softcore, 2000
Monday, July 24 at 5:30pm
Keith Boadwee studied at UCLA in the late 80’s where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden. Boadwee produces paintings, drawings and photos that explore his continued fascination with the body, actionism, expressionism, sex, humor, and abjection. His works have been reviewed in publications that include Hyperallergic, Contemporary Art Daily, Artforum, Art in America, The LA Times and the New York Times. Boadwee has exhibited at The New Museum, MOMA PS1, Hacienda, Zurich, Paradise Garage, LA , Shoot The Lobster, NYC, Brennan and Griffin, NYC and Gallerei Deborah Schamoni, Munich. In 2014, Boadwee published a book with Hacienda Gallery and Micronaut Press, “Keith Boadwee: 1989-2013”. For the last decade, Mr. Boadwee has taught at California College of the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute.
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I miss you tooooo!!!
2017-07-27 09:00 - 2017-09-08 17:00 | Charles C. Thomas Gallery at Maine College of Art & Design, second floor
I miss you tooooo!!!
An exhibition of prints by Pilar Nadal, MFA '13
On view through September 8, 2017, Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Charles Thomas Gallery
Pilar Nadal

Visiting Artist Lecture: JooHee Yoon
2017-07-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Illustration Institute & MECA&D are pleased to host an evening with JooHee Yoon on July 27, from 6:30–8:30pm at MECA&D's Osher Hall. Free, and open to the public.
JooHee Yoon contributes regularly to publications, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker, in addition to working on books, advertising and various other projects. Based in Brooklyn, she divides her time between her studio and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. Learn more at their website.
SOI57 Poster, call for entries poster for the Society of Illustrators in New York City (front and back).

Art in header: JooHee Yoon, New York Times Sunday Review for an op-ed article about how the Republican party should work with the government rather than fighting it

Life As A Muslim Girl in Maine
2017-07-28 09:00 - 2017-08-16 17:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Life As A Muslim Girl in Maine: Thoughts, Stories, and Images
A Justice for Women Project
First Friday Art Walk Reception: Friday August 4, 5-8pm
On View: July 28—August 16, 2017, Monday–Friday, 9am-5pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Zand Head and Friedman Galleries
In 2017, the Justice For Women Lecture (JFW) Series welcomed Zainah Anwar of Malaysia. Ms. Anwar is the director of Musawah, a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family and a founding member and former executive director of Sisters in Islam. She is at the forefront of the Islamic feminist movement, which seeks to end the use of Islam to justify discrimination against women.
The portraits and accompanying writings featured in “Life as a Muslim Girl in Maine" were inspired by Ms. Anwar’s meetings with young women at Deering High School and Lewiston High School as part of the JFW program this past March. Students met in small groups with Ms. Anwar and shared their stories and experiences as Muslim women. Learning about Ms. Anwar’s work motivated these young women to participate in the creation of this exhibit.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.

"Life as a Muslim Girl in Maine" is made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council which was matched by Lee International.
The Justice For Women Lecture Series would like to thank Catherine Frost, the photographer, for her beautiful work and her support of JFW and the young women who are featured in this exhibit. We would like to thank our framer, Johanna Moore of Lone Pine Projects, LLC. Additionally, we would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their generous support: City of Portland, Jenn Carter and Lewiston 21st Century Program, Maine College of Art & Design, and Sarah Shmitt and Portland Public Schools.
Photographer, Catherine Frost

MECA&D Alumni Residency: Open Studios
2017-07-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Please join us for the inaugural open studios of the alumni residency at MECA&D.
The residents will open their studios to the MECA&D community this Friday, July 28, from 4pm–6pm in the MFA studios in the Porteous Building.

This year's selected participants are Sage Lewis '04, Eric Nichols MFA '13, Ray Ewing '12 and Dylan Hausthor '15.
The alumni residency at MECA&D is designed to bring a small group of alumni back to campus each summer for five weeks of studio time while renewing their ties to the College. Originally conceived as an MFA only residency, it has since expanded to include BFA alums.
Header: Sage Lewis in her studio space

In addition to the on-campus residency, MECA&D also awards summer residencies to alumni and faculty at the Pace House in Stonington and in Baie St. Marie, Nova Scotia For a complete list of 2017 residency participants, click here.
For more information contact, Edwige Charlot at EdwigeCharlot@meca.edu.

Artist Lecture: Sonya Clark
2017-07-31 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.
Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark, Hair Craft Project (Ife), 2014, collection of MFA, Boston, photograph
Monday, July 31 at 5:30pm
Born in Washington DC to a psychiatrist from Trinidad and a nurse from Jamaica, Sonya Clark’s work draws from the legacy of crafted objects and the embodiment of skill. As an African American artist, craft is a means to honor her lineage and expand notions of both Americanness and art. She uses materials as wide ranging as textiles, hair, beads, combs, and sound to address issues of nationhood, identity, and racial constructs. She has been a full professor and Chair of the Craft and Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia for over a decade. Formerly she was Baldwin-Bascom Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and she was awarded their first Mid-Career Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011. She also holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater Amherst College where she received a BA. She has exhibited her work in over 300 museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. She is the recipient of several awards including an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, an Art Prize Grand Jurors co-prize, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship in Italy, a BAU Camargo Fellowship in France, a Red Gate Residency in China, a Civitella Ranieri Residency in Italy, an 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, a United States Artist Fellowship, and an Art Matters Grant. Her work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Musees d'Angers in France among several other institutions. Several publications have reviewed her work including the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Italian Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post.
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Hiraeth
2017-08-11 17:00 - 2017-08-26 20:00 | ME
'Hiraeth'
Michel Droge MFA '10, Visiting Assistant Professor
Opening: August 11, 5:00-8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues–Sat, 11:00am-6:00pm
On view through August 26, 2017
Frank Bockerman Gallery, 68 Maine St. 3rd floor, Brunswick, Maine

CREATE VI
2017-08-23 09:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, First Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
CREATE VI: MECA&D's 6th Annual Continuing Studies Student & Faculty Exhibition
Porteous, First Floor
On View: August 23–September 15, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, August 25, 5-7pm
The annual Continuing Studies student and faculty exhibition at MECA&D features a range of work from paintings to photographs to ceramics and highlights the breadth and depth of talent in our local community.

Please click above to enlarge poster.
Artists

Kifah Abdullah
Aileen Agnew
Cynthia Ahlstrin
Nela Alvarez-Sotomayor
Jennifer Battis
Laura Bicherl
Liz Bieber
Annette Cardullo
Kay Carter
Jean-Marie Caterina
Crystal Cawley
Mary Baldwin Collins
Russ Cox
Bess Cutler
Diane Dahlke
Kathryn SB Davis
Deb Dawson
Anna Dibble
Kathleen Donkin
John Doyle
Abby Elder
Betsy Elliman
Hayley Emmons
Amy Fecteau
Rachel Alvarez Flaherty
Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo
Linda Green
Marshall Green
Alicia Greenwald
Katherine Griffin
Cathryn Hammond
James Harrod
Lynn Holler
Janet Hyland
Alison Kamar
Wendy Kaye

Ruth Kepron
Marguerite Lawler
Gilles Letourneau
Carol MacLeod
Margareta McDonald
Richard McFaul
Karen Merritt
Rachel Michaud
Martha Miller
Mary Morse
Maggie Muth
James Neuger
Phoebe Parker
Kerrin Parkinson
Sally Paterson
Emily Percival
Gail Pfeifle
Christina Replogle
Digby Roberts
Wylie Roberts
Jillian Schleicher
Arthur Schaefer
Mary Siteman
Adam Stockman
Tricia Toms
Tammy Towle
Amy Vander Els
Linda Vander Els
Dietlind Vander Schaaf
Kathy Wagner
Kelly Wallace
Mardie Weldon

Kathy Wagner, Rene, oil on panel, 24" x 24"

An Evening with New Yorker Illustrator Emily Flake
2017-08-28 18:30 - 20:00 | 45 Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, ME, United States
An Evening with New Yorker Illustrator Emily Flake

Monday, August 28, 6:30–8:00pm
Historic 5th Maine Museum on Peaks Island
45 Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, ME
Free and open to the public
Presented by MECA&D & the Illustration Institute

Emily Flake began cartooning for The New Yorker in 2008, and has had more than a hundred cartoons published in the magazine since. Her cartoons and illustrations have also appeared in Mad, the New York Times, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, and in many other publications. Her book These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves (Bloomsbury USA) was published in 2007, and she is currently working on Mama Tried, a book of essays and cartoons about parenting.

An Evening with Wayne White
2017-08-29 18:30 - 20:30 | 2 Garden Pl, Peaks Island, ME, 04108, United States
An Evening with Wayne White

Tuesday, August 29, 7:00–9:00pm
Peaks Island Lions Club
2 Garden Pl, Peaks Island, ME 04108
Free and open to the public

Wayne White

The Illustration Institute will be screening the documentary BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING followed by a Q&A with Wayne White, who is the subject of the film.
Wayne White is an American artist, art director, puppeteer, set designer, animator, cartoonist and illustrator. He has won four Emmy Awards for his work. Learn more about him here.
View the trailer for Beauty is Embarrassing here.
View Wayne White's TED Talk here.

An Evening with Cartoonist Mimi Pond
2017-08-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
An Evening with Cartoonist Mimi Pond

Thursday, August 31, 7:00–9:00pm
Maine College of Art & Design's Osher Hall
522 Congress St, Portland, ME
Free and open to the public

Join LA-based cartoonist Mimi Pond for the launch of her highly-anticipated graphic novel The Customer Is Always Wrong. Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Taking place in Oakland in the late seventies, Pond’s story details the trials and tribulations of Madge’s daily grind as a waitress at the Imperial Cafe. She'll be joined in conversation by local author, illustrator, and professor at MECA&D, Scott Nash.
Mimi Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the Los Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon, and many other publications. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, and episodes for the television shows Designing Women and Pee Wee’s Playhouse. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.

ICA at MECA&D: American Genre Painting Symposium
2017-09-15 10:00 - 17:00 | ME
Portland, Maine ~ The Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Painting and MFA programs at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is pleased to invite the public to attend On Genre: A Painting Symposium, a daylong series of conversations about the power of painting and the idea of genre as a cultural structure — one that guides interpretation, anticipation and imagination.
This unique community gathering will spotlight and examine the exhibition American Genre: Contemporary Painting, curated by Michelle Grabner, Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nationally and internationally recognized presenters will be joined by an engaged group of artists, arts leaders and students to share perspectives about still life, landscape and portraiture as categories that chart historical continuity and reveal American value systems. A rich opportunity for extended discussion, Grabners’ exhibition is compelling and approachable, and yields great potential for interpretation and reflection on painting and genre as spaces of agreement.
The morning session will begin with a brief overview by Michelle Grabner, followed a keynote lecture entitled Contemporary Genre Painting: Animating the Intimate by Marie Shurkus, Ph.D, Chair of Academic Studies and Professor of Art History at MECA&D. Drawing insight from the feminist tenet that the personal is political, this talk will analyze how contemporary genre paintings invite audiences to participate in an imaginary realm that activates real consequences.
An afternoon panel discussion, Painting as Common Ground, led by Barry Schwabsky, American poet and the art critic for The Nation (the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States), will explore genre and painting as systems that organize, interpret, translate and imagine history and experience. In response to Michelle Grabner's curatorial focus, five panelists Sharon Butler, Angela Dufresne, Shara Hughes, Chris Stiegler and Roger White will share a variety of perspectives and insights about contemporary painting and illuminate the role of genre as a ubiquitous frame of reference. A community event intended to foster cultural dialogue, audience members will be encouraged to take part in an extended question and answer period following the presentation.
On Genre: A Painting Symposium will end with a closing reception in the ICA. For more information, please contact Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art & Design at 207.699.5025 or ica@meca.edu .
This event is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, RSVP to the September 15th Symposium by emailing ica@meca.edu.
Header Artwork: Dan Attoe, Cedar Tree with Creep, 2017

Adriane Herman: Out of Sorts
2017-09-16 12:00 - 2017-10-14 18:00 | SPEEDWELL, 630 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Adriane Herman: Out of Sorts
On view September 16–October 14 at SPEEDWELL

Surrender Sunday
Sunday, October 1, 2-4pm
First Friday Art Walk
Friday, Oct 6, 4-8pm
Artist talk with Adriane Herman
Friday, October 13, 6pm
Emotional Value Auction/Closing Reception
Saturday, October 14, 12-5pm

Visit SPEEDWELL's site for more information.
Read Portland Press Herald's "Artist Adriane Herman’s changing lives, one project at a time."

SPEEDWELL projects proudly presents Out of Sorts, an exhibition orchestrated by experience broker, Adriane Herman, which explores cycles of accumulation and release in our physical and emotional landscapes. Opening September 16th with a reception from 5-8 pm, the show invites visitors to consider individual and collective consumption as manifest in five mini-bales of recyclable materials that non-profit solid waste manager, ecomaine compressed and loaned for the exhibition. Also on view are photographs Herman took of our trash being incinerated and our recycling being sorted both mechanically and by hand.
Herman is pressing pause on the recycling process to allow visitors to contemplate their own patterns of consumption, as well as the various conduits for release available to us, and the personal, cultural and global implications of material excess and disposability. To facilitate such reflections, Out of Sorts includes benches fabricated from salvaged wood by Benjamin Spalding and upholstered by Amy Emmons with fabric printed with Herman’s photographs of bales of recycling and municipal woodpiles. Visitors can sit on the plushly cushioned benches and register the visual, visceral, and psychological impact of what she calls “simultaneously minimalist and maximalist monuments to communal efforts to keep things out of the landfill.” Materially manifest in the strata of these intimate yet anonymous commodities is evidence of how we eat, drink, work, play, and clean, and how much attention we pay to discarding things responsibly.
In addition to a First Friday Reception October 6 from 4–8pm, ecomaine’s Environmental Educator, Katrina Venhuizen, will discuss the “art” of recycling and the importance of composting food waste on Friday, September 29th from 6-8 pm. Additional events include two “witnessed releases” Herman is choreographing, including Surrender Sunday, when anyone looking to let go of something weighing them down can consult one-on-one with a compassionate listener/receiver on Sunday, October 1st from 12-2 pm. Herman will give an artist talk Friday, October 13th at 6 pm. Out of Sorts ends with an Emotional Value Auction on Saturday, October 14th from 12-5 pm. Anyone interested in releasing an object they desire to pass on to someone who will value it and know its history can inquire about participation by emailing adrianeherman@gmail.com. “Bids” will take the form of written statements of interest in an item. At the end of the “auction,” each item’s owner may choose a winner. Everyone is welcome to witness these meaningful exchanges between strangers. All events take place at 630 Forest Avenue.
Herman has exhibited widely and lectured at over fifty institutions. Her work is in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is a Professor of the MFA in Visual Art at Maine College of Art & Design, and holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Out of Sorts, a subsidiary of Herman’s projects Goods Riddance, and The Freeing Throwers, was facilitated by ecomaine, Hour Exchange Portland, The KISMET Foundation, and Yarmouth Public Works.
SPEEDWELL projects is an artist-run studio and gallery dedicated to launching thought-provoking exhibitions in all media, including site-specific installations, public art, spoken word and performance.

Chinese Brush Painting: Christine Maclin
2017-09-20 09:00 - 2017-10-25 17:00 | ME
Chinese Brush Painting: An Exhibition of Christine Maclin's Work
On view through September 20–October 25, Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
Reception: Wednesday, September 20, 5–7pm
Maine College of Art & Design, Charles Thomas Gallery, Second floor
Learn more about Christine Macklin in the Portland Press Herald article, A grieving husband honors his wife by curating a show of her Chinese brush paintings.
Christine Maclin, Flowers

Ceramics Visiting Artist: Chris Gustin
2017-09-26 11:00 - 11:50 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Visiting Artist Lecture: Chris Gustin
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Presentation: Osher Hall, 11:00–11:50am
Chris Gustin, Cloud Series #1720, 2017, 24x28x25, Stoneware, Anagama Wood Fired
"I am interested in pottery that make connections to the human figure. The figurative analogies used to describe pots throughout history all in some way invite touch. The pots that I respond to all speak of a clear, direct sense of the hand. The hand is celebrated in the work by its maker, whether it is that of a fifteenth century rural potter or a nineteenth century court artisan. And it becomes a necessary tool for the user in understanding the relationship of the object to its function, and subsequently, to how that object informs ones life.
Though most of my work only alludes to function, I use the pot context because of its immense possibilities for abstraction. The skin of the clay holds the invisible interior of the vessel. How I manipulate my forms "around" that air, constraining it, enclosing it, or letting it expand and swell, can allow analogy and metaphor to enter into the work.
I want my work to provoke image to the viewer, to suggest something that is just on the other side of consciousness. I don't want my pots to conjure up a singular recollection, but ones that change with each glance, with each change of light. I use surfaces that purposely encourage touch, and by inviting the hand to explore the forms as well as the eye, I hope to provoke numerous memories, recollections that have the potential to change from moment to moment."
View Chris Gustin's website here.
Chris Gustin, Cloud Series, #1719, 2017, 30x28x26, Stoneware

Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder
2017-10-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder
Monday, October 2, Osher Hall at 7:00pm
Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and designer who started making podcasts in 2014. He hosts and produces the award-winning podcast Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
In 2016, he created The West Wing Weekly, an episode-by-episode discussion of the beloved political drama, which he co-hosts with West Wing actor Joshua Malina. In 2017, Hrishikesh helped Google launch their first original podcast, City Soundtracks, and an experimental music VR project, called Inside Music. He has also collaborated with Apple, WIRED, and Vulture. Through his shows, he has interviewed a wide range of guests, including Björk, U2, Lorde, Metallica, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Allison Janney, and Aaron Sorkin.
Hrishi was an artist-in residence at the Sydney Opera House, and he has spoken about creativity, music, and design at Pinterest, IDEO, Etsy, and the Google Design Conference in Los Angeles. He has a BA in Art from Yale University.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Anthony Sonnenberg
2017-10-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
BFA Fall 2017 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
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.
Anthony Sonnenberg
Thursday, October 5, 12:00–1:00pm
Crowns and candlesticks— things made in the moments just before a crash are the subject of my work. Rather than casting judgments, I seek to actively engage with and bear witness to the tragic and beautiful nature of this cycle. My making comes from seeing the writing on the wall and not knowing what to do about it.
Artist included in ICA exhibition: Confabulations of Millennia. On View: October 6–December 8, 2017
Anthony Sonnenberg, Character Study for Silenus, Archival Inkjet Print, Materials of crown - Hand cut and shaped brass sheeting, brass piping, red coral, silver solder. 2014.

2017 Salt Alumni Exhibition
2017-10-06 09:00 - 2017-11-12 17:00 | ICA at MECA&D, 522 Congress St., Portland, Maine, 04101, United States
2017 Salt Alumni Exhibition
October 6–November 10, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 2017, 5:00-8:00pm
Artists at Work Gallery, First Floor, Porteous Building
This exhibition features the work of thirteen alumni from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, which is now a graduate certificate program at MECA&D. As we welcome Salt to campus— Fall 2017 students are the inaugural class – we honor the history of Salt and its long commitment to documentary storytelling.
Featured artists include: Abigail Holtzman '14, Adam Kampe '05, Alexandra Marvar '06, David Foster '10, Douglas W. Milliken '05, Grace Mendenhall '13, Jodie Goodnough '07, Kristin Moe '12, Molly Graham '09, Morgan Springer '14, Posey Gruener '05, Stephanie Mitchell '95, Thalassa Raasch '12.
Thalassa Raasch, Dessert from the series Rim Road, 2015

Confabulations of Millennia
2017-10-06 11:00 - 2017-12-08 17:00 | Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, first floor
Confabulations of Millennia
On view from October 6–December 8, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Friday, October 6, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm
Melora Kuhn, Waterfall Bust, 2016
Curated by artist Richard Saja, Confabulations of Millennia brings together the works of 19 contemporary artists who take direct inspiration from the 18th and 19th centuries. Using established styles, techniques and objects perfected in the 18th and 19th centuries, the 19 artists assembled deploy history as a springboard in order to speak to the intricacies and inconsistencies of modern life be they social, political or aesthetic.
Artists include: Martha Arquero, John Brauer, Joey Chiarello, Emily Diaz Norton, Douglas Goldberg, Jeremy Hatch, Beth Katleman, Ryan Wilson Kelly, Melora Kuhn, Livia Marin, Oscar Sancho Nin, John O'Reilly, Erin M. Riley, Richard Saja, Anthony Sonnenberg, Ryan Swanson, Vadis Turner, Julia Whitney Barnes, Kehinde Wiley
Masthead Image: Beth Katleman, Hostile Nature, USA (detail), 2014
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.
