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Adjunct Faculty Members
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Constant Albertson -
Associate
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.
Constant Albertson exhibits her narrative ceramic sculpture nationally and internationally. Her scholarly 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. Dr. Albertson was instrumental in starting a ceramics program at UM in 2002.
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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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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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| Jefferson
Goolsby - Assistant Professor of Studio Art
jefferson.goolsby@maine.edu
- 207.581.3293
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Video, sound, and interactive artist Jefferson Goolsby graduated from California State University, Chico with his B.A. in Information & Communications and English (1983) and his M.A. in Music, Communication Design, and English (2002). He received his M.F.A. in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon in 2006. At CSU, Chico he studied under Dr. Raymond Barker, Steve Metzger, and Dr. Tom Welsh. At University of Oregon he studied under Colin Ives and Ehud Havazelet.
His work and research has been presented internationally and throughout the United States, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Arts Biennial (Rockport, Maine), the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, Oregon), the Portland International Experimental Film Festival (Oregon), Tulane University (New Orleans), Ming Chuan University (Taipei, Taiwan). His paper The Distribution Revolution: A Global Recalibration of Media Production, Ownership, and Economics was presented at the 2008 International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA) conference in Singapore. His current research explores the construction of massive database systems for fine art video and sound production.
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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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Susan Groce (MFA, University of Michigan) is a Professor of Art, and Chair of the Department of Art, University of Maine. 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 170 solo, invitational and juried exhibitions and are included in private, public and corporate collections in the USA, The UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore. Her research focus is on innovative and safer print materials and processes and has received a variety of research grants and awards in the arts, inclusive of the University of Maine System Trustee Professorship.
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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 |
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.
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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 Education.
In 1999, Professor Hicks received the national Mary J. Rouse Award
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Michael H.
Lewis
- Professor of Art
michael.lewis@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3279
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Michael H. Lewis came to the University of Maine in 1966. He teaches painting, drawing, and sequential art, has served as Chairperson of the art department, and as Acting Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Lewis exhibits his paintings on a regular basis at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine, Uptown Gallery in NYC, and Steven Scott Gallery in Baltimore. More than 25 of his works are included in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. His work is also in the collections of...the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; and others.
Recently, four of his paintings were selected for the U.S. Dept. of State’s Art in the Embassies Program. The paintings were sent to the American Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.
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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, 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
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Andy Mauery is an artist and educator currently living in Veazie, Maine. A sculptor who works with a variety of methods and materials, Mauery creates objects/sketches and large-scale installations as well as designing collaborative workshops. She earned her MFA in Sculpture from West Virginia University, and is an Associate Professor of Art and the Foundations Coordinator at The University of Maine, where she has been teaching since 2000. Her courses include 2D Design, 3D Design, Sculpture, and Studio topics courses such as Sustainable Sculpture and Sculptural Fibers. Her creative work centers on questioning and placement, and the human desire to make plain the complexities of life. She has exhibited in the US, Denmark, and Peru, and has been awarded several faculty research grants to study fibers techniques, glassblowing, and glass casting. |
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Owen
Smith - Professor
of Art
owen.smith@umit.maine.edu
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In The Land Of Oz |
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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.owenfsmith.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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Justin Wolff - Assistant Professor of Art History
justin.wolff@umit.maine.edu
- 207.581.3250
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Professor Wolff received a Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University in 1999. Currently his research focuses on modern American art and he’s writing a book titled Art and Experience: Thomas Hart Benton and the American Scene. In addition to articles and book reviews, he published Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger (Princeton University Press) in 2002. Professor Wolff taught for three years in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, received a 2005-06 Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served for two years, from 2006 to 2008, as the Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Assistant Professor of Art History at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He teaches courses on modern and contemporary art history and art theory and criticism.
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Emeritus
Deborah de
Moulpied - Emerita Professor of Art, Sculpture, Design
207.581.3680 |
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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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Adjunct Faculty
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Susan Camp - Assistant
Professor of Art
susan.camp@umitmaine.edu
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Susan Camp earned an MFA in visual art at Vermont College in 2003. She works as a sculptor and printmaker with a focus on minimizing the environmental impact of her practice. Her work reflects concern and fascination with the spiritual-secular duality that shapes our culture and the influence of biotechnology. Inherent in this investigation is a reverence for the exquisite design of natural forms, and an examination of our desires for control and permanence. This exploration integrates collaboration with members of her own species and representatives of others including; molds, drosophila larvae and most recently gourds. Her current work with gourds involves cross breeding and constraining them in moulds during the process of growth.
Her pedagogical focus reflects her practice by attempting to utilize less toxic and invasive processes in the classroom. In collaboration with her colleague, Andy Mauery, she developed a sustainable sculpture course first offered in 2008. The variety of courses that she teaches reflects her multimedia practice and love of materials. Her course loads include drawing, three-dimensional design, sculpture, and beginning and advanced printmaking. She has been teaching at the University since 2001.
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John Eden -
john.eden@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae for 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
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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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Wayne Hall - Assistant
Professor of Art
contact info - 207.581.3245
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Vessel, Carved walnut,
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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
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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
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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
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Curriculum Vitae for Ed Nadeau |
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Artist Ed Nadeau is a native of Maine whose paintings depict the land and people of his home state in various incarnations. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 receiving his BFA in painting, and in 1986 received his MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Assistant Professor Nadeau teaches 2d-design, drawing and painting at the University of Maine in Orono and has taught advanced courses in Figure Drawing, Nature Drawing, Landscape painting, Materials and Techniques for Painters and the Senior Capstone. His area of research is the history, manufacture and use of traditional artists materials such as substrates, gessoes, oil paints, temperas and waxes along with current advancements of new technologies and materials that can be adapted for artists’ uses.
His paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, the Park School, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, the University of Maine in Orono, Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, and the Drawing Center, NYC. Currently Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine represents his paintings. His works are held in many private collections both nationally and internationally.
He is currently working on a series of portraits titled, “Big Box Images: Portraits of the American Consumer”, which now include an extended array of portraits of people from all walks of life created through the interrelationship of manipulated computer imagery and traditional painting and drawing.
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Nina Jerome
Sutcliffe - Assistant
Professor of Art
nina.sutcliffe@umit.maine.edu
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A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Rhode Island School of Design, Nina Jerome Sutcliffe has been painting landscape in Maine for thirty years, inspired by light and color interacting with both the natural and constructed environments. Outdoor interests such as kayaking and hiking have influenced her painting projects of the natural and coastal landscape. Concentrated light, panoramic rhythms, varied points of view, and active brush strokes convey her interest in sense of place and transitions in time and space. Jerome teaches drawing and painting at the University of Maine in Orono.
In Maine, Jerome shows her oil paintings at Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle, and Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth. She has completed twelve public art projects as part of the Maine Percent for Art Program. She is also represented by Trudy Labell Fine Art in Naples, Florida.
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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 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
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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