OMAA continues its exploration of the union between arts and letters with programs by notable authors and artists. ZOOM LINK Toi Derricotte is a poet whose writings explore race and identity through autobiography as well as literary forebears, and her work is known for treating sexual topics with candor. A reviewer in Publishers Weekly characterized Derricotte…
OMAA continues its exploration of the union between arts and letters with a third series of programs by notable authors and artists. ZOOM LINK Ms. Garcia is invited to read from works relevant to Cuban American culture while Alberto Rey’s art is exhibited at OMAA. Born in Havana to a Guatemalan father and Cuban mother, Cristina García…
Wood Gaylor was a part of the Ogunquit art colony “from the beginning,” according to one observer. In this talk, Andrea Rosen, curator of the traveling exhibition Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor & American Modernism, 913-1936, will go into greater detail about Gaylor’s involvement in the Ogunquit art colony and his pioneering collecting of folk art; the wacky…
In conjunction with Alberto Rey's retrospective exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, he will present a 40-minute presentation discussing the evolution of his work over the past thirty years and the community work influenced by his artwork. Alberto work is found in around twenty art museum collections and has written and illustrated three…
Gerald Peters, professor of literature at the University of Southern Maine, discusses “Nineteenth Century Utopianism and the American Social Imaginary,” relating to the exhibition Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley. ZOOM LINK
Artist Celeste Roberge will discuss her work Chaise Gabion, currently on view in OMAA’s sculpture park and gardens. Roberge will reflect on the material culture and geological processes that led her to consider what the “chaise” represents in an art historical context and what it means within her own practice. Roberge presents Chaise Gabion alongside…
ZOOM LINK Katherine French, curator of the Jo Sandman Legacy Project speaks on the exhibition One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman. Inspired by her stay at Black Mountain College in 1951, Jo Sandman approached art making as a thoughtful process of experimentation. Katherine French, curator of the Sandman Legacy Project will discuss Sandman’s early experience at Black…
Late 19th-century critics celebrated Winslow Homer’s paintings of the Maine coast as big, powerful, and virile—masculine qualities that would describe representations of this locale well into the 20th century. The Maine coast thus was mapped as a manly domain, brought into view by vigorous brushwork and inhabited by rugged artists colonizing a new frontier. What…
A conversation with Anthony Moore, Jean Gibran and Ken Turino, manager of community partnerships for Historic New England, related to the exhibition Kahlil G. Gibran: The Surface and Below. ZOOM LINK
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the world-re-nowned Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, describes mindfulness as “paying attention, on purpose, in the present mo-ment, without judgement.” This presentation covers the foundations of mindfulness, the science supporting the benefits of mindful-ness and how practicing mindfulness can offer opportunities…
