Category — Summer Intensive '09

All First Priority applications for the MFA in Studio Arts should be mailed to the College by JANUARY 15th, 2010.  Full details are on our admissions page.

Maine College of Art has a new Director of Admissions. Please welcome Grace Hopkins-Lisle who joins us from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Grace and the team in the Admissions Office will be assisting the MFA in admitting the next class of 2012.

And what an extraordinary summer it was….

Please join us in welcoming Brian Dunn who will offer a lecture on Monday evening, August 3rd at 6:30 pm in MECA’s new Osher Hall located in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street.

Please join us in welcoming Jonah Freeman who will offer a lecture on Monday evening, July 27th at 6:30 pm in MECA’s new Osher Hall located in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street.

Hello Meth Lab in the Sun #13,  2008
(Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Alexandre Singh/Courtesy of Ballroom Marfa)

Please join us in welcoming Ken Lum who will offer a lecture on Monday evening, July 20th at 6:30 pm in MECA’s new Osher Hall located in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street.

House of Realization 2007

Please join us in welcoming Jane Wildgoose who will offer a lecture on Monday evening, July 6th at 6:30 pm at MECA’s new Osher Hall located in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street.

Please join us in welcoming Benny Nemerofksy Ramsay who will offer a lecture and brief performance on Monday evening, July 13th at 6:30 pm at MECA’s new Osher Hall located in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street.

Images
Top: Patriotic 2002 (with Pascal Lièvre)
Bottom: Live To Tell 2005

Thank you to Kenneth White for opening up the MFA Summer Intensive with a mini film fest of Guy Maddin’s work alongside some of his influences…

Film still from Guy Maddin The Heart of the World 2000

Molly McIntyre’s photographs of Jeff + Mark transforming images into food.
A skein of yarn becomes… well… we’re not sure exactly!

Thank you to Jeff Kulak and Mark Clintberg for making the MFA edible collage extravaganza a delectable feast!! Thank you to Lauren Fensterstock and Aaron Stephan for hosting us at their home.

The MFA welcomes Professor Amelia Jones from the University of Manchester UK to MECA on Monday evening, June 29th at 6:30 p.m. in the new Osher Hall.

Prof. Jones will present a lecture on:

Live Art in (Art) History:
The Slovenian JJJ Project
and the Durationality of Meaning