From the Editors: Origin Stories We asked you to tell us the stories you tell of yourself, to share who you are, and how you got here… |
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Alice Spencer
I have always made things–paintings, drawings, things with clay… |
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Cynthia J Ahlstrin
My most cohesive origin stories can be found within my artist’s books – in both the traditional book forms as well as in the altered books… |
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Susan Drucker
These drawings are part of an on-going book project based on reimagined family photos… |
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Gigi Aea—Journey
In the spring of 1996, Gigi Aea designed and produced his first hand-painted jacket that was featured in the Metropolitan Museum Fashion Gala… |
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Crossing Bridges by Kathy Weinberg
The Martin Wong retrospective”Human Instamatic” — a road trip to the Bronx, and a family story… |
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Migration Experience — Reflections of Maine Immigrant Artists
In April, the creative voices and talents of more than a dozen immigrant artists living in greater Portland will be exhibited at the Union of Maine Visual Artists Gallery… |
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Anna Mikušková — Origin Stories
I grew up in a house made of books: children’s books, classics, detective stories, forbidden publications that escaped communist censorship being passed down by generations of writers… |
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Juliet Karelsen- Origin Stories
My current work is a response to the Maine woods… |
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William Kienbusch And the Gift of Place by Carl Little
My uncle, the painter William Kienbusch (1914-1980) spent most his life in two places, New York City and Maine… |
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Clare Morin — Origin Stories
It begins, of course, with the fact that there is no beginning… |
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Humble Origins — How Art Can Create Identity by Edgar Allen Beem
Our home is filled with fine and fun art, almost all of it created by friends and family… |
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Art Origins: My life as a half-blind art critic by Daniel Kany
When I was four years old, I wound up with a steak knife in my eye… |
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Arts of the Deal By Mirlea Saks,
The woman who brought contemporary art to Maine… |
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TRACES, TRACKS, and PATHWAYS: Making Migration Visible
Upcoming Exhibition co-curated by Julie Poitras Santos and Catherine Besteman; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine… |
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Members’ Voices
Excerpts from Renu O’Connell and David Wade… |
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People on the Move – A Human Crisis: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and the Internally Displaced
Throughout February Camden Public Library and the Jonathan Frost Gallery presented a large joint art show… |
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Betsy Sholl introduction: Poetry by Craig Sipe — Reunion in Beaver Falls
Craig Sipe, a Mainer now, grew up, as his poem says, in Pennsylvania… |
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Insight/Incite
Children Paint Art Decks for Memorial Skateboard Park in Bowdoinham… |
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UMVA Members Showcase — Clara Cohan, Maggie Muth, Lesia Sochor… |
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Maine Masters Report — My Immigrant History by Richard Kane
I think it’s important for any artist to figure out how to survive… |
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ARRT! and LumenARRT! Update
The Artists Rapid Response Team! and LumenARRT! are projects of the Union of Maine Visual Artists… |
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UMVA L/A Chapter Report
Update on what’s happening with UMVA members in Lewiston and Auburn… |
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UMVA Portland Chapter Update
Update on UMVA members in the Portland area chapter… |
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MAJ Summer Invitation and Theme
State of the Studio… |
