As a pioneer painter, Freedman is identified with a loosely knit school of artists in New England in the late 20s and 30s that included Marin, Hartley, Knaths and Avery. Maurice Freedman was one of the most accomplished practitioners of an American Art that attempted a synthesis of certain aspects of modern European art and native American subject matter.
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Read MoreI was born in Boothbay Harbor Maine and am the daughter of florists. Early memories are playing hide and seek in our maze of greenhouses where rows of pots were poised to root, sprout, or bloom and where the air was moist, lush, and fecund. I liked making things from the materials and supplies in our floral shop: frilly lacy ribbons, shiny foil, rolls of brown packing paper, carbon slips, cardboard scraps, discarded flowers, glue, pens, thick pencils, floral foam, staplers, scotch tape, scissors, and a pencil sharpener that worked like a charm.
Read MoreStuart Kestenbaum is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Things Seemed to Be Breaking (Deerbrook Editions 2021), and a collection of essays The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press). He was the host of the Maine Public Radio program Poems from Here and the host/curator of the podcasts Make/Time and Voices of the Future. Stuart Kestenbaum has written and spoken widely on craft making and creativity, and his poems and writing have appeared in numerous small press publications and magazines.
Read MoreJung Hur grew up in Seoul, South Korea. He studied traditional Korean brush technique and earned BA and MFA degrees in painting from Hongik University. Hur later opened and operated his own painting school in Seoul. In 1998, Hur moved to New York City. In 2008, he moved to Portland, Maine.
Read MoreMy work has been influenced by abstract expressionism, and minimalist artists, mostly from New York.
~ William Zingaro
Read MoreWhat language do I speak? The language of the Baltic Sea, Lake Superior, the North Atlantic (as spoken by rocks and stones…trees, leaves, bird’s nests…bones…) All the things and beings which have known deep Northern winter and can tell the stories contained in their very souls.
~ Marlene Ekola Gerberick
Journal Entry, Vol. 60, 2014
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Read MoreTo defy erasure and to build archives, simultaneously, Khan reveals the often invisible labor and mastery of the disregarded. To inscribe the denied into global and local multi-visual cultures, she researches and documents the lives of ordinary people who are extraordinary.
Read MoreAfter graduation, Drewal joined the Peace Corps, taught French and English, and organized arts camps in Nigeria. During his two years in Nigeria he apprenticed himself to a Yoruba sculptor—a transformative experience that led him to interdisciplinary studies at Columbia University in African art history and culture.
Read More“For me, the northern New England landscape is charged with both deep family history and memories of shared adventures. From the beginning, I have wanted my art to reflect my sense of this place as integral to my sense of self.”
Read MoreEd Douglas, the retired Chair of the art department at the Maine College of Art, is known for beautiful color combinations academically and thoughtfully laid to surface, deriving inspiration from classic Impressionist masterpieces.
Read MoreNanci Kahn is a photographer and sculptor based in Falmouth, Maine. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Maine, New York, San Francisco and Ethiopia.
Her work can be found in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Kroch Library at Cornell University, the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, the Stephen K Halpert Photography Collection at the University of New England, Portland, Maine., and the Judy Ellis Glickman Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
Read MoreAaron T Stephan’s work presents a wry look at the world around him – focusing on the complex web of information carried by everyday materials and objects.
Read MoreFor over 25 years Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic process.
Read MoreCole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival.
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