A lengthy interview with photographer and Associate Professor of Art Gary Green appeared in the online magazine Landscape Stories. Green talked about the roots of his craft, his artistic inspiration, his poetic vision, and his teaching. “I learn by having to teach, and I learn by looking at the work of my students, from whom I learn...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed two essays to the winter issue of the Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, titled (“A Conversation with James Fangbone” and “When More is Better: Horror Vacui in History”). She also wrote the introduction to this issue, dedicated to Maximalism: Courting Chaos or Creating Order?
Tanya Sheehan, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, has participated in a virtual roundtable discussion with two other editors of leading journals in the field of American art. In conversation with Jennifer Marshal and Jacqueline Francis of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Sheehan discussed her work since 2015 as...
Associate Professor of Art and Maine-based photographer Gary Green in conversation with the Bakery Photo Collective on Dec. 1. Gary will discuss his life in Maine, his two new books, and his days in NYC during the punk heyday.
Véronique Plesch was invited to participate at the workshop “Écritures exposées : la fabrique des espaces ‘publics'” (Exposed Writings: The Making of “Public” Space) organized by the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). The meeting took place Friday 27 November and Plesch provided a response to...
Congratulations to our Art History majors Olivia Hochstadt and Whitney White, who are two of the 4 nominees for the Watson Fellowship 2021. Their project titles and descriptions are below. Olivia Hochstadt Threads of Creativity: Knitting Cultures Together Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Denmark, Scotland, Norway, Iceland Why do people create? For my Watson project,...
Gary Green will be interviewed the by Photobook Café in London on November 11, 2020. They will be discussing Gary’s newest book, The River is Moving/The Blackbird Must be Flying.
Photographs taken in the late ’70s and early ’80s by Associate Professor of Art Gary Green were featured in a six-page spread in Vanity Fair France. The photos come from Green’s new book When Midnight Comes Around. The spread includes photos of Debbie Harry, Laura Dean, and Joe Jackson.
The video of a conversation between Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and painter and multimedia artist Abby Shahn has just been released online. The original conversation took place April 19, 2020, as part of the SPEEDWELL LIVE! event. Plesch’s conversation was held in conjunction with Shahn’s exhibition at SPEEDWELL projects, a gallery in Portland, Maine, commemorating Shahn’s...
