In partnership with the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, CMCA presents the inaugural exhibition of the 2018 Ellis-Beauregard Fellows—artist team Wade Kavanaugh (Bethel, Maine) and Stephen B. Nguyen (Portland, Maine). Kavanaugh and Nguyen were selected as the first recipients of the Fellowship award through a blind jury process from a pool of more than 200 applicants by jurors Jeffrey Peabody, Vice
Find out more »“If engaging with climate is not a matter of winning, but more a matter of character and style, then the making of art, story, and literature also becomes part of our responses.” —Per Espen Stoknes, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming How do we confront what climate strategist
Find out more »RESORT and QUENCH are two recent collaborative video works by artists Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick that frame the global refugee and migration crisis through the lens of the sea. In RESORT, 2016, the immensity of the sea is oddly stilled. There is no lull in the light that cycles from dawn to dusk
Find out more »Drop in | March 23 - June 16, 2019 FREE and open to all, materials provided Drawing from the process of artist team, Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, partner up or focus on your own and try your hand at a scale model of an imaginative and immersive installation or sculpture. Working with the
Find out more »Join us for a gallery talk with artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, preceding the opening reception for their installation. Working as collaborators for more than a decade, Kavanaugh and Nguyen were selected as recipients of the first Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Fellowship award from a pool of more than 200 applicants by jurors Jeffrey Peabody, Director,
Find out more »Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 5:00-7:00pm Free Join us for an opening reception celebrating two new exhibitions: Melt Down and Wade Kavanaugh + Stephen B. Nguyen | Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship Exhibition. Melt Down, organized by CMCA curator emeritus Bruce Brown, presents the work of 10 lens-based artists whose work gives evidence to the undeniable impact of climate change on
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