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Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage

June 26, 2014 - September 28, 2014

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Sharon Arnold, Joker. Collage, 2008. Collage, from the French ‘coller (to glue),’ has been with us since the Chinese invented paper in 200 BCE, through the middle ages, into 17th century Venice when découpage (from découper, to cut out’) became fashionable, right on through to the present day. But modern collage as a formal artistic [...]

Joe Guertin: A Graphic Designer Remembered

November 6, 2013 - January 26, 2014

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Joe Guertin (1940-2010) was highly involved as a teacher and graphic designer in the art and design community of Portland from the early 1970's onward, serving as head of the Department of Graphic Design at the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art) and on the advisory committee for the Payson Building at [...]

Maine Women Pioneers III – Dirigo

Maine Women Pioneers III - Dirigo

June 22, 2013 - July 21, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Celeste Roberge, Seaweed Boat, Digital print. Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. Dirigo was the fourth and final exhibition of the Maine Women [...]

Maine Women Pioneers III – Homage

Maine Women Pioneers III - Homage

January 2, 2013 - March 3, 2013

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Lissa Hunter, Rush Hour Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. Homage was the second of four exhibitions honoring 50 living Maine women [...]