The Maine Masters Project

 Film series and panel discussion

This film series and discussion allows attendees to sit together and converse with Maine Master artists, family members of the artists, art historians and film makers!

ABOUT THE FILM PROJECT
Each video is a part of an ongoing film series sponsored by the Maine Masters Project. These videos are documentaries of Maine artists interviewed in their studios, discussing their lives and work.

The Maine Masters project is a part of the Union of Maine Visual Artists and is funded in part by grants from the Maine Community Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, the Belvedere Fund, Robert and Mary Jo Naylor, the Castine Arts Association, Maine Humanities Council, Marshall Dodge Memorial Fund, and the Strout Family Foundation and many other generous individuals.

For more information contact Robert Shetterly, UMVA, 207-326-8459.

ABOUT THE FILM MAKERS
This series is a collaborative effort of Maine Artists, including filmmaker Richard Kane, art writer/poet Carl Little, painter Robert Shetterly and videographer Deb Vendetti.

WEDNESDAYS, 7:00 PM

Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor

$5 donation at the door

March 15, 2006

Clark Fitzgerald

Sculptor Clark Fitz-Gerald moved to Castine in the 1950s. Having fallen in love with Maine, he decided to see if he could survive on his art in the place he found inspirational. He became one of Maine's most successful sculptors, a master in wood, metal, and stone.

Dahlov Ipcar

A New Englander by birth, Dahlov Ipcar (1917 - ) was introduced to Maine by her parents, artists William and Marguerite Zorach. Ipcar, whose first solo show took place at the Museum of Modern Art, has gained wide recognition through her marvelous paintings and many more great artistic feats.

March 29, 2006

Robert Hamilton, painter

Robert Hamilton's paintings are based in jazz-like improvisation - witty, surprising, colorful, eccentric. Imbedded in their playful surfaces are themes of personal history and commentaries on the history of art.

Harold Garde, painter

Harold Garde's energy and artistic vigor have had an enormous impact on the community of Maine artists. Although now a figurative painter, he retains his abstract expressionist roots in method and technique. He seeks the beautiful with an uncompromising vision of the personal and social necessity of art.

April 5, 2006

William Thon, painter

William Thon and his wife, Helen, moved to Port Clyde, Maine in the 1940's. Thon's grand theme was the boat. The many vessels he painted in his lifetime in Maine and on the shores of Europe make for an extraordinary fleet.

Alan Magee, painter

Alan Magee of Cushing is a modern master of realist painting. His paintings invite wonder at the inherent dignity and beauty of simple objects such as letters, tools, and stones that are imbued with a history of communication, labor, and time.

April 12, 2006

Olive Pierce, photographer

For photographer Olive Pierce the part is never more important than the whole, the individual more important than the community, and the photographer never as important as the people being photographed. Her black and white photographs document the spirit of community whether she finds it in high school kids (No Easy Roses), or among Maine fishing families (Up River), or with children in Iraq.