Full Time Faculty Members
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Adjunct Faculty Members
Constant Albertson -
Assistant
Professor of Art and of Art Education
constant.albertson@umit.maine.edu - 207.581.3251
Curriculum Vitae for
Constant Albertson |
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Art Educator and
studio artist Constant Albertson earned her Doctorate from Concordia
University, Montréal in 2001 in Art Education, and joined the
faculty of the Department of Art in the Art Education Program that
fall. Her research revolves around the content and methodology in
ceramics arts education, and the interesting convergence between
this and optimal learning conditions for people struggling with
literacy and organizational challenges due to dyslexia.
Instrumental in starting a ceramics program at UM in 2002, Dr.
Albertson hopes soon to start a ceramics teaching laboratory school
for the Art Education Program for adolescents with literacy
difficulties.
Constant Albertson
also exhibits her narrative ceramic sculpture nationally and
internationally. Of the relationships between her scholarly and
studio activity, she writes: “My artwork is about the fragility of
memory and memory construction. I intend the sculptures to be like
notes on a refrigerator door, reminders to pay attention to the
details.” |
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Deborah de
Moulpied -
Emerita Professor of Art, Sculpture, Design
207.581.3680 |
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(1979) Emerita, Diploma, 1956, Boston
Museum School of Fine Arts; B.F.A., 1960, Yale University School of
Art and Architecture; M.F.A., 1962, Yale University School of Art
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Michael Grillo -
Associate Professor of Art History
michael.grillo@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3252
Curriculum Vitae for Michael
Grillo |
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Fiumicini,
2004 |
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Michael Grillo |
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Dr. Michael Grillo is Associate
Professor of History of Art in the Department of Art, and the
Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor. His
signature work with Italian fourteenth-century images investigates
how they operate as primary sources that visually articulate ideas
inexpressible in any other media, including written or oral speech.
Dr. Grillo received his PhD from
Cornell University with a dissertation on Medieval History of Art.
He continued this work with his 1997 book, "Symbolic Structures: The
Role of Composition in Signalling Meaning in Italian Late Medieval
Painting." He offers seminars on Fifteenth-Century Ways of Knowing,
Renaissance New Media, and Theory and Practice in Photography, and
lectures on Photography, Film Studies, and New Media. He is also a
practicing photographer, and seeks to explore how aesthetic theories
play out directly in application in our world, particularly how
photography operates as a social process. |
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Susan
Groce - Professor of Art, Department Chair
susan.groce@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3246
Curriculum Vitae for Susan Groce |
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Passages II, Intaglio |
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Susan Groce, Professor of Art -
Printmaking, received her MFA from the University of Michigan and
B.Ff.A. from the University of Arizona. She works in large scale
Mixed Media Drawing, and Printmaking (Intaglio and Lithography). Her
research focus is on emerging technologies, and non-toxic materials
and processes. She has worked at Atelier 17, Paris; the Edinburgh
Printmakers, Scotland; Open Bite Print Workshop, Australia and the
MacDowell Colony, NH. She is an Artist Mentor for the MFA program at
Vermont College, and has been an Artist in Residence, Visiting
Artist, Guest Lecturer and Visiting Researcher at over 40 Art
Schools, programs and Universities in Australia, Ireland, Northern
Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada and The USA.
Her prints and drawings have been in
over 160 solo, invitational and juried International, National, and
Regional exhibitions and is included in private, public and
corporate collections in the USA, The UK, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, and Singapore. Susan served 6 years on the Visual Arts
Panel of the Maine Arts Commission, 2 of those years as Chair, and
has received a variety of research grants and awards in the arts,
inclusive of the University of Maine System Trustee
Professorship. which is designated to provide research
support to recognize, reward, and retain exceptional scholars, for
her research project The Interface Between Digital,
Non-Toxic, and Traditional Print Technologies.
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Laurie
E. Hicks - Professor of Art
laurie.hicks@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3247
Curriculum Vitae for Laurie E.
Hicks |
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Laurie E. Hicks |
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Professor
Laurie E. Hicks is an associate professor of art and art education
in the Department of Art at the University of Maine. Her research
and publications focus on issues pertaining to feminism, cultural
theory and environmental design. Most recently
her
publications have explored
the concept of
play and
its
contribution
to our understanding of a socially responsible art education;
contemporary
body modification as a process of liberation;
and the
relationship of visual and material culture to our memory of place.
Professor Hicks’ most recent artistic work,
"Icelandic
Particulars,"
links her scholarly interest in our memory of place with
photographic representations of experiences
of place.
As
a faculty member, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
art education theory and practice, as well as
courses
on contemporary issues in art education, environmental design, art
history, and museum education. She also teaches an art history
course on art and human experience. In addition to her research and
teaching efforts, Professor Hicks has served as the chair of the
University of Maine’s Department of Art and interim chair of Theatre
and Dance. She also served as President of the Women’s Caucus of
the National Art Education Association, is a member of the National
Council on Policy Studies in Art Education and was the founding
editor of the Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education.
In 1999, Professor Hicks received the national Mary J. Rouse Award
for Outstanding Contributions to Art Education. |
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Michael H.
Lewis
- Professor of Art
michael.lewis@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3279 |
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(1966). B.S., 1963, State
University of New York at New Paltz; M.A., 1964, Michigan State University;
M.F.A., 1976, State University of New York at New Paltz; Painting, Drawing. |
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James
Linehan - Professor
of Art
james.linehan@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3246
Extended Biography for James
Linehan |
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Morning Rise - Brooksville 2000, oil, wax/canvas, Collection of MBNA |
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James Linehan |
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James Linehan, Professor of Art and Department Chair, is a painter
who teaches courses in painting, drawing and design. After receiving
a B.F.A. in Painting at Arizona State University in 1974, he
continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where
he earned an M.A. in painting in 1976 and an M.F.A. in 1978. Prior
to moving to Maine in 1983 he taught for five years at St. Andrews
College in North Carolina.
Linehan is represented by Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine;
Gallery 357 in Rockland, Maine; Vose Gallery in Boston,
Massachusetts; and Sherry French Gallery, New York, N.Y. His work
has been included in over one hundred group shows and twenty solo
shows in the past fifteen years. He has completed twenty public
commissions, including fifteen for the Maine Arts Commission Percent
For Art Project, and is represented in thirty public and corporate
collections. |
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Andy (Andrea) L. Mauery
- Associate Professor of Art
andy.mauery@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3249 |
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(2000) B.F.A., 1991, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania; M.F.A., 1993, West Virginia University; Foundations, Design,
Sculpture.
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Owen
Smith - Professor
of Art
owen.smith@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3248 |
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In The Land Of Oz |
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Owen Smith |
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Dr. Owen
F. Smith is a professor of Art History and Digital Art in the
Department of Art at the University of Maine and the current
Director of the New Media Program. He received his BA in Russian
Studies, his MA in Anthropology and his PhD in Art History from the
University of Washington in Seattle. He is a specialist in Modern
and Contemporary art, particularly what he calls Alternative Art
Forms. He has lectured widely in the US and Europe on art in the
20th Century. His most recent Book, Fluxus: a History of an
Attitude, was published by San Diego State University Press. Owen
Smith is also a practicing artist who works in digital art and new
media forms and has exhibited his work in over 60 national and
international exhibitions over the last ten years. His work can be
seen online at:
http://www.ofsmith.com
http://www.altarts.org/tstcn/index.html
http://www.altarts.org/imagesite/pixelpage/intry.html
http://www.altarts.org/owensmith/index.html |
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Adjunct Faculty
Siri Beckman
- Assistant Professor of Art
siri.beckman@umit.maine.edu |
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(1996) (part-time) B.A., 1964,
Lake Forest College; M.F.A., 1992, The University of the Arts; Printmaking, Book Arts.
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Susan Camp - Assistant
Professor of Art
susan.camp@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for Susan Camp |
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Transubstitution |
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Susan
Camp works as a sculptor and printmaker. Her practice reflects a
fascination with visual sequence, materiality, growth and decay and
explores the permeable boundaries between the secular and sacred. In
her recent work she has collaborated with molds, fungi and
drosophilae larvae to examine the mutable nature of materials and
convictions. She earned her MFA in visual art from Vermont College
and has been teaching at the University of Maine since 2001. |
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John Eden -
john.eden@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for John Eden |
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John Eden |
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Studio artist and
teacher, John Eden, was educated in England at the Camberwell School
of Art and Brighton College of Art; and in Canada, at McGill
University and Sherbrooke University. Mr. Eden has taught at the
college and university levels in England, the United States and
Canada. He joined the faculty in 2001 to design and teach new
courses in ceramics for the University of Maine. Mr. Eden has
exhibited his pottery and ceramic sculptures nationally and
internationally. |
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Kerstin Engman - Assistant
Professor of Art
kerstin.engman@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for Kerstin
Engman |
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Baxter Afternoon Light |
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Kerstin
Engman received her B. F. A. from the Portland School of Art (now
the Maine College of Art) and a Masters of Fine Arts from the
University of Pennsylvania. She now lives and works in Maine.
As a sculptor Ms. Engman uses the figure to articulate conditions of
human experience. In the past 20 years, her work has either been
cast in bronze or fabricated in steel and copper.
From
1988 through 2000 Ms. Engman was involved in community-building in
her home town of Belfast through involvement with local public
schools as a designer of enrichment programs for children and their
families.
Ms. Engman founded and worked as
director of Project Kalocsa, arranging for the international
exchange between Kalocsa, Hungary and Belfast, Maine of more than
150 students and young adults and families.
Ms.Engman has taught drawing and sculpture at various colleges in
Maine and visited numerous campuses in New England as a visiting
lecturer. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and taught
English in the Hungarian public schools. |
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Kenneth S.
Ganza - Assistant Professor of Art
kenneth.ganza@umit.maine.edu |
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(2000) (part-time) B.A., Wabash College; M.A.,
1983, Indiana University; Ph.D., 1990, Indiana University; Asian Art History.
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Wayne Hall - Assistant
Professor of Art
contact info - 207.581.3245
CV/extended bio link |
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Vessel, Carved walnut,
approx. 6" x 12" x 20" |
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Wayne
Hall received BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Georgia. In
North Carolina, he taught sculpture and rustic furniture design at
Duke and North Carolina State Universities, and in South Carolina,
he taught at Converse College and the University of South Carolina
Spartanburg. In Maine, in addition to the University of Maine, he
has taught at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts, and the Ellsworth School System. He
received an NEA/S.E.C.C.A. grant for his wood sculpture in 1977 and
his sculpture, rustic furniture and drawings have been included in
both national and regional exhibitions. |
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Majo Keleshian -
Lecturer of Art, Gallery Coordinator
majo.keleshian@umit.maine.edu |
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(2000) (part-time) B.A., 1967, Sarah Lawrence
College; Drawing
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Sheridan
Kelley - Assistant Professor of Art
sheridan.kelley@umit.maine.edu |
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(2004) (part-time) B.A., 1994, Bowdoin College; M.F.A., 1999, Savannah College of Art and Design; Digital Art.
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Gay Kempton -
Assistant Professor of Art
kenneth.ganza@umit.maine.edu |
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(2001) (part-time) B.S., 1978,
University of Findlay; M.A.Ed., 1980, Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A.,
1998, University of Michigan; Drawing.
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Karen Linehan -
Assistant Professor of Art
karen.linehan@umit.maine.edu |
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(1983-5; 2001) B.A., 1978,
University of Maine; M.A., 1984, Boston University; Art History, Canadian Art, American Art.
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Ronald (Ed) Nadeau - Assistant
Professor of Art
ronald.nadeau@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3293
Curriculum Vitae for Ed Nadeau |
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Twin Trees on Oil Panel - 2002 |
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Ed
Nadeau is a practicing artist and an Assistant Professor of Art at
the University of Maine. In 1980, he graduated from Syracuse
University with a BFA degree in painting. He received his MFA in
painting in 1986 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in
Baltimore, Maryland.
He has
exhibited widely, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the
Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore Maryland; New
England Artists Trust, New Haven Connecticut and the Center for
Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport among many other venues. In the
summer and fall of 2005 he will exhibit his new paintings, extensions of his
research from his Nature drawing class, at Whitney Art Works,
Portland, Maine. |
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Nina Jerome
Sutcliffe - Assistant
Professor of Art
nina.sutcliffe@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for Nina Jerome |
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Paradox 11 |
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Nina
Jerome was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She received a B.A. in
Studio Art from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and an MEA from Rhode
Island School of Design in 1984. In 1986 Jerome began teaching at
the University of Maine where she is now an Adjunct Associate
Professor of drawing and painting.
Jerome
has lived in Maine since 1976 and paints landscapes that reflect her
activities and her interest in spaces transformed by light. Her
landscape focuses on qualities that evoke a sense of personal
association and meditation; light, intense color, panoramic rhythm,
and varied viewpoints of land and water surfaces. |
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Judith Sasso-Mason
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
judith.sasso-mason@umit.maine.edu |
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(1999) (part-time) B.A., 1976, University of
South Florida; M.F.A., 1982, University of South Florida; Photography.
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Alan
Stubbs - Cooperating
Professor of Art
alan.stubbs@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for Alan Stubbs |
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Tumacacori |
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Alan’s primary interest is
photography. He is interested in all forms of photography-- black &
white and color; film and digital; and different processes such as
platinum printing and zone-plate photography. He works with
different subject matter including portraits, interiors, landscapes,
and abstractions and light. Currently many of his efforts involve
explorations in digital inkjet processes.
Alan has taught several courses on
photography and on digital imaging. He has used Photoshop for over
a dozen years. He has also taught courses that focus on black and
white process and courses on color photography.
He
has a Ph.D. in psychology and his area is the scientific study
of perception. There is a close link between this area
and photography and in addition the work in perception has so
many connections to many areas of art.
See
some illusions and other visual effects at his PerceptualStuff
web site. |
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Walter
Tisdale -
Instructor of Art
walter.tisdale@umit.maine.edu |
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(2005) (part-time) B.S., 1985, University of
Wisconsin-Madison; Printmaking, Book Arts.
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