Bryan Graf: Across the Interior   
Through 4.6.14 // ICA at MECA
In collaboration with So Percussion
Scanning the New Jersey landscape, Maine-based photographer Bryan Graf’s inventive and playful work turns the prosaic Jersey landscape into a canvas for darkroom experimentation and mystic revelation. 
Open for viewing: Wednesday-Sunday, 11:00am-5:00pm, Thursday until 7:00pm
Open for First Friday Art Walk, February 7, 5:00-8:00pm

In the Sound Art Closet: Robert Beatty: Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata 
Through 4.6.14 // ICA at MECA
“Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” collects Beatty’s compositions for digital video glitch pioneer Takeshi Murata, produced between 2004-2007. 
Open for viewing: Wednesday-Sunday, 11:00am-5:00pm, Thursday until 7:00pm
Open for First Friday Art Walk, February 7, 5:00-8:00pm Through 2.20.14 // Charles C. Thomas Gallery
Using various techniques ranging from collage to painting in her work, Bates explores the relationship between the structural geometry of architecture and the geometric shapes in shared DNA. 
Open for viewing: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm A Rebus of Identical Selves: Jenna Crowder (BFA '07) & Douglas W. Milliken 
Through 2.28.14 // Artists at Work: Project Window 
A series of six weekly performance-based installations.  Auto-generated false reflections. A slow evisceration. Let's do dinner. Blindness. Real horse, real rider, real land and sky, and yet a dream withal.
Open for viewing: every Monday, 7-8PM

MECA's Illustration Department presents the Valentine's Day Sweet Art Pop-Up Shop. Ten illustration students are offering a creative alternative for buying that special card for your loved one. Together they have created a Valentines pop-up shop called Sweet Art filled with original cards, posters and love-themed illustrated art.
The Sweet Art Pop-Up Shop open February 7-14 // First Friday Art Walk 
LOVAPALOOZA: a Valentines day themed sale of handmade cards, posters and prints created by MECA Printmaking majors and Introduction to Relief class. All proceeds help to fund the Printmaking majors attendance to the Southern Graphics Council Conference in San Francisco of March 2014.
LOVAPALOOZA will be on display February 3-14
Monday-Friday // 9-5PM
First Friday Art Walk Event and Sale February 7,
Friday // 5-8PM

Visiting Artists - Jenna Crowder '07 and Douglas W. Milliken
2.6.14 // 12:00-1:30pm // Osher Hall
Visual artist Jenna Crowder and writer Douglas W. Milliken have collaborated on a series of performative installations. Together, they will discuss their collaborative process, influences, and works cited throughout the piece.

Jenna Crowder is a visual artist whose practice involves installation, drawing, printmaking, research, collaborative and public art, and design. She has worked in the United States, Haiti, and Egypt, and has attended residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Studio Khalat at artellewa art space, and Hewnoaks Artist Colony. www.jennacrowder.com.

Douglas W. Milliken is the author of the codex WHITE HORSES (Nada, 2010) and the forthcoming novel TO SLEEP AS ANIMALS (PS Hudson, 2014). Other recent stories have appeared McSweeney's, the Believer, and the Southern Indiana Review. Douglas is also a founding member of the sound-collective Father Time Records. www.douglaswmilliken.com
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Visiting Artist -  Tim Gaudreau MFA '02
2.13.14 // 12:00-1:30pm // Osher Hall
Eco-artist Tim Gaudreau is passionate about the environment and the interconnections between people and nature.  His work combines photography, video, new-media, graphics, and sculpture with humor and irony to create collaborations that advocate for a greater awareness of eco-issues and empowerment.  His work initiates dialogue about social and environmental issues and serves as an entryway to improve our relationship to Nature and consider each individual impact. Gaudreau completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in interdisciplinary studio art and critical theory through the intensive program at the Maine College of Art in 2002. Gaudreau’s photography and design background grew from a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire completed in 1992. 
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Lecture: Visiting Artist - Susan Dewsnap
Sponsored by MECA Ceramics department
2.20.14 // 12:00-1:00pm // Osher Hall
Susan Dewsnap’s ceramic studies began at a community clay studio in Boulder, Colorado and matured through intensive summer workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.  She earned her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she taught from 2008 through 2012, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.  She has exhibited her ceramic work internationally and has received awards from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Biennial, the World Ceramic Biennale Korea International Competition, and the Strictly Functional Pottery National Exhibition.
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2.13.14 // Thursday // 12:00pm–1:30pm // ICA at Maine College of Art
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Chinese New Year dawned on January 31, 2014. MECA is celebrating "A Year in China," showcasing long-term partnerships with Chinese art academies and cultural institutions through a calendar of events, talks, and East/West journeys.

Please join us on February 13th as we welcome two distinguished writers from the Chinese-American cultural scene. Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith, authors of The Pocket Chinese Almanac series, will be offering audiences insights into the Year of the Horse.

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