Faculty
The graduate program at Maine College of Art has a unique tripartite faculty structure with Core, Visiting, and Advisory instructors delivering the curriculum and working individually with students wherever they may live. We have had more than fifty Visiting Faculty from 1998-2009 and over one hundred Studio Advisors from 1998-2009. Below are some profiles of the current core faculty.
REBECCA DUCLOS, Director and Faculty
Prior to her current work as an independent writer, curator, and Director of the graduate program in Studio Arts at the Maine College of Art, Duclos worked for over ten years in museums and galleries in Canada and the UK. Since 1994, she has taught at Deakin University (AUS), the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). She has recently curated Voir/Noir at the Musée d’art de Joliette, As Much as Possible Given the Time and Space Allotted with David K. Ross at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and Magnify with Lauren Fensterstock at the ICA in the Maine College of Art.
Recent publications include essays in Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture and Performance, Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other’ Within, and La Clef. Duclos has also contributed essays and reviews to the Leicester Museum Studies series, The Future of Collecting (1999) and Exploring Science in Museums (1996). She has been the web editor for Reading Montréal and Alphabet City and is currently a commissioning editor for the Alphabet City/MIT Press series.
Duclos is a past fellow of the American Association of University Women, the Cultural Theory Institute and the Centre for Museology at the University of Manchester (UK), as well as a participating in the 2004 dissertation workshop at the Getty Research Institute. She currently holds a research fellowship at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in Montréal.
Duclos received her PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). She studied in Canada for her MA in Museum Studies (University of Toronto), B.Ed. in Art Education (York University), and BA in Classical Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology (University of Toronto). She currently lives in Montreal and works in Maine.
AMOS LATTEIER
Amos Latteier is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist who creates interactive public art using technology and performs PowerPoint lectures. He uses humour and technology to explore history and natural history. His recent public art projects include a location-specific nature haiku by sms project, a telephone-operated karaoke protest song project, a pigeon condo, a historical recreation of Alexander Graham Bell’s huge tetrahedral kites, a 500lb potato battery, and a chainsaw-powered walking machine. His recent performance lectures include a history of zoo architecture, an exploration of ant and human societies, an enquiry into the relationships between statistics and pleasure, and a look at “models” from from fashion models, to the Copernican model, to model citizens, to the Domino theory, to Wild West shows, to the Marshall Plan, to urban planning, to feng shui. He has performed at the Banff New Media Institute (Banff), Kyber Institute of Contemporary Art (Halifax), Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), University of Toronto (Toronto), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland), California College of the Arts (San Francisco), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), SAW Video (Ottawa), School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Hugo House (Seattle), On the Boards (Seattle), Art Metropole (Toronto).
ANDREA RAY
Andrea Ray is a New York-based installation artist whose work primarily investigates the effects of ill-perceived relations and misdiagnosed conditions between subjects and their environments. Her projects often incorporate sound and architectural components and are supported through focused research across a number of fields and disciplines including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, utopian studies, literary and aesthetic theory. Andrea received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1994. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1996 and has taught widely and maintained an international studio practice ever since. Andrea’s interdisciplinary and intermedial teaching has been honed at institutions such as the Kansas City Art Institute, Hunter College, Cooper Union, the College of New Jersey, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Parsons The New School, and the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden.
PETER SIMENSKY
Peter Simensky is a Maine-born, New York-based artist whose work spans numerous media including sculpture and installation, three-dimensional design, collage, video, photography, performance, print, and textiles. He has participated in numerous group shows in US and International museums, institutions and galleries including Sculpture Center, Palais de Tokyo, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and Museum 52. He is a 2007 NYFA Grantee and was a Workspace Resident at DieuDonne Papermill in 2007-08. He is currently an artist in residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He received his BA at the University of California, Berkeley in Art History and Studio Art in 1999 and his MFA at Hunter College in 2003. In the same year Simensky was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He was a photo editor at Artforum from 2001 to 2003 and has taught at Hunter College, University of California San Diego, and New York University.
