Features and Essays, Spring 2019
From the UMVA Archives Pat and I have a cozy sitting room off the kitchen where we have dinner. The walls are covered in paintings and there are comfortable places to sit. After dinner most nights we move to the sofa and have a glass of wine. Because this is the West...
Features and Essays, MAJ - Winter 2019
Highlighting the creative processes by exhibiting artists’ first drafts, thoughts, and inspirations, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) presented an exhibition of sketchbooks titled First Traces, curated by Britta Konau from October 31 – December 20, 2008....
Features and Essays, MAJ - Winter 2019
There are no exceptions: without independence there can be no art. The history of art tells us that all powerful artists broke with the past, and with their contemporaries, and created independently. Giotto broke with Cimabue and the Byzantine tradition and developed...
Maine Masters Report, Summer 2018, UMVA Updates
by Richard Kane Producing films on art and artists has been an ongoing dream fulfilled. Good for me. But what about for you? What about for the school kids of Maine? Or the elderly? So in the past two years I’ve devoted more of my studio time working on getting...
