Nothing Major 2014 Reception
3.7.14 // 5pm-8pm // MECA 
Nothing Major is MECA’s annual spring student-run exhibition. This exhibition provides first and second year students with valuable exhibition experience before they declare a specific major. This is an internal exhibition, but open to the public for viewing during the March First Friday Art Walk Reception.



Reenie Charriere: Melt
3.7.14- 4.18.14 // Artists at Work Project Window
Reenie Charriere’s  installations, drawings and photographs evolve from a practice triggered by expeditions along everyday paths.  Her current work includes photographic documentation followed by spotlighting the situation through fabricated sculptural installations created out of discarded packaging materials -- particularly plastic, fabric, paper, and cardboard. By sewing, cutting, fusing, reshaping, dangling, and weaving, she transforms the material into atmospheric and surprisingly organic-like structures. Her choice of materials reflects a collision of clumsiness and grace and questions how consumerism drives the world.  She was recently awarded a residency by SF MOMA in San Francisco and has been awarded full fellowships by La Napoule Foundation in France and Can Serrat in Spain.

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Bryan Graf: Across the Interior   
Through 4.6.14 // ICA at MECA
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. 
Wednesday-Sunday 11am-5pm // Thursday 11am-7pm
First Friday Art Walk // 5pm-8pm

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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.  Beatty’s collaborative relationship with Murata has spawned some of his strongest work to date, and Glistening Examples is honored to present this music to the public for the first time outside of screenings, museums, and galleries.  Beatty has performed alongside Murata’s work in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Beijing, where he performed several shows, including at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art during the 2008 exhibition, “Stray Alchemists.” Courtesy of the Artist and Glistening Examples.
Wednesday - Sunday 11am-5pm // Thursdays 11am- 7pm
First Friday Art Walk // 5-8pm

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Paintings by Anne Ireland '94
3.5.14-6.4.14 // Charles C. Thomas Gallery // Porteous Second Floor
Alum Anne Ireland grew up on a saltwater farm in Maine, where she returns every summer.  Ireland's work reveals the ongoing dialog she has with the Maine landscape.  Reflecting a complicated and ardent relationship with color, Ireland strives to capture the emotion present in hayfields, stands of pine, and ever-changing skies.  Her intent is to "transform the iconic into the newly discovered, transporting the viewer to a place that is at once familiar and foreign, a place that asks questions and demands answers, a place of infinite possibility." 
Open for Viewing: Monday - Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm

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A Shifted Behavior is an artistic project that seeks to generate dialog and increase education about climate change through curriculum, community partnerships, social media and exhibitions. Using a variety of print and digital media, the works in the exhibition reveal how our individual actions impact the natural environment, and prompt us to question and shift our habits.

The exhibition will be held at Maine College of Art, Zand Head Gallery from February 28-March 8.
Participatory projects and closing reception on First Friday, March 7 from 5-8PM.

Artists in the exhibition: Chloe Beaven, Robert Bennett, Kristina Buckley, Zach Dallaire, Caitlin Ervin, Ashley Hall, Samantha Prada-Putzig, Megan Taitano, Anthony Zambrana

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Visiting Artist - Reenie Charriere '09
3.6.14 // 12:00pm // Osher Hall

See above "On View" section for artist bio. 

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Visiting Artist - Tricia Flanagan
3.6.14 // 5:45pm // Osher Hall

A former fashion and costume designer, Tricia Flanagan has been a practicing artist since 1996.  Since earning a Master of Arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University in WEimar, Germany, her practice has focused on working in the public sphere, including site-specific sculpture, social sculpture, sounds sculpture, sculptural installation, wearables, and performance installation.  Artwork is often created on location or developed in workshops.  She currently runs the Wearables Lab at the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and lives and works in Hong Kong.  For her project “Transit Textiles,” she engaged eight artists from various disciplines and backgrounds, mapped their movements throughout the city of Hong Kong, and created wearable textile maps, stiching their networks of movement into the cloth.

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Visiting Artist - Dan Michaelson
3.20.14 // 12:30pm // Osher Hall

Dan Michaelson is a founding partner of Linked by Air, a studio in New York City specializing in the production of public spaces and other networked structures, both online and in the world. Linked by Air is the recipient of the Charles Nypels grant for research on embedded digital sign systems, in residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Some of their projects have been awarded AIGA 365 awards in the United States. They are also the recipient of the Jury Prize at the Brno Graphic Design Biennial 2012. 

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The Artist as Mother: Exploring the Balance

Maine College of Art Celebrates Women’s History Month by exploring the sometimes challenging relationship between motherhood and active studio practice. During the month of March, join us as we screen two films, "Who Does She Think She Is" and "Lost In Living"  and invite back a panel of MECA alumni to share their personal experience. 
 
Film Screening: "Lost in Living"
3.21.14 // 6:30pm //Osher Hall

“Behind the domestic curtain of motherhood, where the creative impulse can flourish or languish, are four women determined to make a go of it. Filmed over seven years, Lost In Living, confronts the contradictions inherent in personal ambition and self-sacrifice, female friendship and mental isolation, big projects and dirty dishes. The complex realities of family life unfold in this documentary film about the messy intersection of motherhood and artistic expression.”
—(www.maandpafilms.com)

Free & Open to the Public (RSVP required for general public)
RSVP to alums@meca.edu with names of attendees.


The Artist as Mother: Exploring the Balance
Panel Discussion with MECA Mothers
3.28.14 // 6:30pm // Osher Hall

Join us for a discussion with three diverse women artists who have learned to balance their family life with their creative practice. They will share their strategies, insights, challenges, and revelations learned while navigating their lives as artists and mothers.

Free & Open to the Public (RSVP required for general public)
RSVP to alums@meca.edu with names of attendees.