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USM Area Gallery Exhibit Showcases Recent Percent for Art Purchases at USM
September 2 through Thursday,
October 20, 2005
Lecture Series
Thursday, October 20, at 4:15pm
Room 10, Bailey Hall, Gorham.
“Recent Projects: USM Percent for Art” will be the first exhibit of the
2005-2006 school year running Friday, September 2 through Thursday,
October 20, in the Area Gallery located in the University of Southern
Maine Woodbury Campus Center on Bedford St., Portland. Gallery hours
are 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. on
Friday.
Finalists from recent projects will have work on display that sheds
light on their individual creative processes. From proposals, to
preliminary drawings and models, each artist will reveal how they
completed their journey through the Percent for Art process at
USM. Among the artists represented are Duncan and Catherine
Hewitt, whose sculpture and landscape design was chosen for the stage 1
of the USM Bioscience Research Institute in Portland; Shoshannah White,
whose digital photography was chosen for stage 2 and Aaron Stephan,
whose sculpture, “Lift,” was chosen for the lobby of the newly built
Joel and Linda Abromson Community Education Center in Portland.
Artists who made it to the final round of the selection process, and
those who had their work chosen as Percent for Art purchases, will be
also represented.
Stephan will give a free public lecture about his work at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, October 20 in Room 10, Bailey Hall, Gorham.
Maine’s Percent for Art law was enacted in 1979 and requires that one
percent of construction costs be set aside to purchase original works
of art for new or renovated buildings receiving state funds. For
more information about the law, see
www.mainearts.com
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Aaron Stephan, Lift, charcoal on paper, 2004, drawing for sculpture in the new Abromson Community Center, Portland Campus
Shoshannah White
Proposal for the USM Bioscience Research Center.
(The photography in the design is for placement only)
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