Join us in the museum for the opening reception of Activator, an exhibition of installation work by 7 contemporary artists: Nate Aldrich & Zach Poff, Astrid Bowlby, Amy Stacey Curtis, Eric Hongisto, Nicola Lopez, and Jason Rogenes.

Artist talks: 7 PM, Olin Art Center

January 11: Astrid Bowlby, Nicola Lopez
January 12: Eric Hongisto, NB Aldrich & Zach Poff
January 18: Jason Rogenes
February 2: Amy Stacey Curtis

Tuesday Curator’s Tours @ noon: Liz Kelton Sheehan
January 24 & March 14

This event also celebates the broader Maine Print Project, and unprecedented statewide collaboration of 25 museums and art institutions and its Down East Books publication Inprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005, by David P. Becker.Friday, March 9, 2008. 5:30p.m. – 8:00p.m.

Event is free and open to the public.

A catalogue with an essay by noted Indiana scholar Susan Elizabeth Ryan will be published this fall as the first in a series of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art collection catalogues.

Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace, Multifaith Chaplin, will give a talk about “Our Positive Bodies: Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our Choices.” This exhibition, originating in Nairobi, Kenya, was launched in 2004 by the Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health Foundation (TICAH), as a way to highlight the gravity of HIV/AIDS in a positive, affirming way.

Blaine-Wallace, will speak about the vital role of museum exhibitions in general and, in particular, how the Our Positive Bodies exhibition impacts life and learning at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.

Cosponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Art Museum and the Office of Multicultural Affairs

Opening Reception: Friday, January 15 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Collection Project 4: Alumni Collections is the fourth exhibition in a series devoted to examining works from the permanent collection and focuses on objects from some of the wonderful collections donated by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumni.

Not intended as a comprehensive survey of all alumni gifts, the exhibition will highlight several notable collections which have had a significant impact on the Museum, underscoring the importance of alumni giving to the growth and richness of the permanent collection.The museum has invited Curatorial Interns from the Department of Art and Visual Culture to research and develop an exhibition from within these collections.

The exhibition is organized by curatorial interns, Molly Richmond ’10, Emma Scott ’10, and Annie Svigals ’10, under the guidance of the museum’s curator, Bill Low, and curator of education Anthony Shostak.

Since 2000, Amy Stacey Curtis has been installing large-in-scope, interactive installation and new-media works in the vast mills of various Maine towns. Each solo-biennial exhibit is a 22-month process, each

exhibit exploring a different theme while requiring audience to perpetuate its multiple installations.

“The audience completes my creative process. Without participants my work is incomplete.” The Maine Arts Commission’s 2005 Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Art, Curtis has committed to this work to convey that we are a part of a

whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects.Curtis’s sixth biennial, TIME, will take place October 9-28, 2010 in a Maine mill to be announced. Curtis also exhibits internationally and completes drawings to support her installations.

Her articles on early twentieth-century American art (on Arthur Dove, John Marin, Marsden Hartley) have appeared in Smithsonian Studies in American Art, American Art Journal, Winterthur Portfolio, and numerous anthologies and exhibition catalogues, and she is the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997).She also served as a senior consultant for the art section of The Encyclopedia of New England Culture (forthcoming Yale University Press) and has a new book, Marsden Hartley: Region, Race, and Nation, forthcoming from the University Press of New England, spring 2005.

Friday, November 5, 2004

Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell Street
6:00 PM

Donna M. Cassidy, University of Southern Maine, Keynote speaker
“‘Yankee Queer’: Marsden Hartley’s Maine Folk and Regional/Sexual Identities”

Museum reception to follow, Olin Arts Center.

Since its dedication in 1986, The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art has maintained a special relationship with the college’s Department of Art & Visual Culture. Part of this is a commitment to supporting the work of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students through our Annual Senior Exhibition. The exhibition highlights work selected from the thesis projects of graduating seniors majoring in Studio Art.

Thesis projects vary from student to student, each pursuing an individual interest. The emphasis of the program is to create a cohesive body of related works through sustained studio practice and critical inquiry. The year-long process is overseen by Art faculty, and culminates in this exhibition.

• More about the Senior Exhibition 2010