Posts Tagged Arts
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Maine Women Pioneers III
February 20, 2013 / / Exhibit Includes Alison Hildreth, Rose Marasco, and Katarina Weslien Last night, the Art Gallery at the University of New England hosted its second special program in conjunction with their current exhibitions entitled Maine Women Pioneers III: Homage. This program included the curators as moderators and a panel comprised of curator Bruce Brown, former director of the Center of Contemporary Maine Art; writer Edgar Beem; and Executive Director of Creative Portland, Jennifer Hutchins.
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Marketing Basics for Artists | January -- April 2013
December 12, 2012 / / Marketing Basics for Artists - January - April 2013 Please check out our Resource Page for past presentations, handouts, links and MORE PortlandArts. org/PDS January 9 - Beyond the Business Card How and Why to build an Artist Packet with Artist Statement, Bio, Resume and Studio Records.
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Support Portland's Creative Economy with These Locally-Produced Gifts
December 5, 2012 / / It's a good time of year to highlight some of Portland's artists and craftspeople who have been busy making the rounds at various local craft fairs (such as the 4th annual Picnic holiday sale, happening this coming Sunday). Here's a sampling of locally-produced gift ideas from some of our hometown bloggers and curators.
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East End Street Art
November 20, 2012 / / I've been noticing more and more excellent street art concentrated around the bottom of Munjoy Hill in the last few weeks (boosted, in part, by the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" public art project done this summer). Here are some recent photos by Portland photographer Corey Templeton, whose work appears on this website often.
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Portland Artist Alicia Eggert Named a TED2013 Fellow
November 9, 2012 / / Exciting news: my friend and fellow Portlander Alicia Eggert is headed to Long Beach, California next year as one of the TED conference fellows for 2013. Alicia creates a lot of interactive and time-based artworks — they demand thoughtfulness and interaction from their audiences, but in a really fun way.
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Professional Development Series : Pricing & Valuing Your Artwork
November 6, 2012 / / The next workshop in the Professional Development Series is Pricing and Valuing Your Artwork. This series of workshops on business basics for artists is presented by Creative Portland, Maine College of Art, and Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts with generous funding by the Quimby Family Foundation.
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A "Moment" of Appreciation for Public Art
October 16, 2012 / / Yesterday, a crane lifted a modernist sculpture of cantilevered steel beams into the outdoor courtyard of the Portland Museum of Art on High Street, just half a block from Congress Square. The sculpture, called "Moment," is the work of British sculptor Anthony Caro, and is the second piece in the museum's collection of outdoor art (not counting architect Henry Cobb's celebrated design of the museum building itself), and comes to Portland from the private collection of donor Dr.
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Welcome, Freshmen
October 1, 2012 / / Late last week, this striking new mural appeared at the corner of Preble Street and Cumberland Avenue, a block off of Monument Square. The building is being renovated to become the Preble Street Resource Center's new Joe Kreisler Teen Shelter.