Rebecca Goodale collection, 1999–2008

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Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes a screenprint from Goodale’s “Reading” series, event invitations, catalogues, materials related to the “Ant Girls” and other ephemera.

Biographical/Historical Note

Rebecca Goodale is a book artist whose work can be found in numerous public collections throughout the United States including the local collections at Bowdoin College Library, the Maine Women Writers Collection, and the Portland Museum of Art. Her awards include A New Forms Regional Initiative Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts, A Mellon Grant for the Humanities at Bates College, and in 1995 she was a Resident Scholar for the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. Rebecca teaches design and book arts for the University of Southern Maine art department. She is also the program coordinator for USM’s Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts. She lives in Freeport, Maine.