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Book Arts Program
Faculty
Marnie Cobbs is a bookbinder who works mostly on conserving old books. She worked at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, University of Washington and Yale University, and has been in private practice since 1985. She also runs The Uphill House making books, cards, prints and paintings.
Anne-Claude Cotty has enjoyed a career evenly divided between teaching and studio practice since moving to Deer Isle 30 years ago. She is a community artist, touring artist on the Maine Arts Commission roster, conference presenter, Haystack faculty, and art teacher on 2 bridgeless islands. Her work has been exhibited across the country and abroad and included in Maine survey shows in several disciplines, for example: Maine Printmakers (Farnsworth Museum), The Art of the Book (Portland Museum of Art), 160 Years of Maine Photography (CMCA), MCA Crafts Biennial (Colby College Museum of Art). She holds graduate degrees from Georgetown University (M.S.) and the University of Alberta (M.F.A. in Printmaking).
Dennis Gilbert has been teaching autobiography and interdisciplinary arts at the University of Southern Maine since the early eighties. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, he has made an extended effort to supplement his verse, fiction, and non-fiction with an avocation in the visual arts, including painting and photography, which he shows regularly in collaboration with members of the Spencer Pond Group, an arts & fly-fishing collective.
Rebecca Goodale is the Faculty Director for the Book Arts at Stone House program. She teaches Design and Book Arts for the USM Art Department. She is also the Program Coordinator for USM’s Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts. A nationally recognized artist, her work can be found in numerous public collections throughout the United States including Bowdoin College Library, the Maine Women Writers Collection, and the Portland Museum of Art.
Brenton Hamilton, MFA, is a photographer living and working in Rockport, Maine. For 17 years he has lead workshops at Maine Media Workshops were he directs the Professional Certificate Program. Brenton's interest in 19th C. historic processes, chemistry and photography's history inform is work and research. Brenton lectures widely on the cyanotype and practices the art of the blueprint nationally. His work is represented by TILT Gallery in Arizona and his work is on view at: www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net
Eric Hopkins is a prominent Maine artist who operates his gallery and studio in Rockland. He has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School. His paintings and glass are in many private and public collections, including the Farnsworth Art Museum. He has exhibited in a number of galleries and museums nationally.
Elizabeth A. Jabar is a Portland based artist printmaker and her work explores notions of ethnicity and heritage. In her prints and artists books she displays a highly personal visual language, incorporating cultural motifs from folk art, religious traditions and textiles. Elizabeth is also Associate Professor and Chair of the Printmaking Program at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. Her works have been shown at galleries and museums nationally and internationally and can be found in the many public collections throughout the USA. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts and her MFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Peter Madden’s one-of-a-kind, handmade books have been exhibited and collected by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard University, The Center for Book Arts in New York and Bowdoin College to name a few. His work and technique have been featured in many publications about artists’ books and alternative photography, including Penland Book of Handmade Books, Teachers and Writers Magazine, Structure of the Visual Book and The Body of the Book in the 20th Century. He’s received an Artists’ Foundation Fellowship, a Saint Botolph Club Foundation Grant and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award. Peter is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and is a frequent teacher, lecturer and workshop leader around the country including Massachusetts College of Art, The San Francisco Center for the Book, The Guild of Book Workers, Brigham Young University, Wellesley College ,Harvard University and Brandeis University. |
