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Rebecca Goodale

Part-Time Professor of Fine Art
Art Dept.
University of Southern Maine
Robie/Andrews

Late Winter, 2007, this book pulls out from a box. The life size cedar waxwings are colored pencil on pergamenta tethered by linen to each other and to carved branches (Lin Lisberger). Here the birds lift up about 8 feet from the box.

Rebecca Goodale creates unique and limited edition books, many with sculptural components. She was a printmaking major at the Portland School of Art, Portland, ME (1971-1973), and studied textile design at the Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN (B.F.A., 1975) and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (graduate studies 1975-1976). She has been an instructor in the Art Department at USM since 1981.

Goodale's recent one-person exhibitions include the Saint Xavier University Gallery, Chicago, IL (1999);Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME (1999); Davidson & Daughters, Portland, ME (1999); Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME (1999); Lee Arts Center, Arlington,VA (1998); June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME(1996); Kettleson Library, Sitka,AK (1995); Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN (1990). She has been in group exhibitions at the New York Public Library(1999-2000); Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland ME (1999);Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA (1999,1997,1996,1995);Chapel Art Center, St.Anselm College, Manchester, NH (1998); The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (1997);Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ(1997); The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (1996); Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI (1996); Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL (1995); Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY (1992);and Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME (1992,1990, 1983).

"Higgins Beach Sketchbook", 2007, cascades from its binding to display ink on paper images of a bird in flight and eventually landing. In this shot the book is hung approx. 7 feet in the air.

She was a resident fellow at the Island Institute in Sitka, AK (1995), and an artist in residence for Artists Invite Artists at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME(1995); and received a New Forms Regional Initiative Grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts in 1990.

Goodale's work can be found in the following public collections: New York Public Library, New York,NY; The White House Ornament Collection, Washington, D.C.; Art in Public Places, the State of Hawaii; The Portland Musem of Art, Portland, ME; Portland Public Library,Portland, ME;University of Southern Maine; Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA; Memphis College of Art, Memphis,TN; and Guilford Primary School, Guilford, ME.

Her book Island Dog, from Two Dog Press, Deer Isle, ME was published in 1999 and is available at bookstores (almost) everywhere.