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Maine Masters Archives
| Why should hours of interviews sit on our shelves? So we have started the Maine Master Archives and have begun posting virtually full length interviews starting with Ashley Bryan and Abby Shahn. |
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Review of Maine Masters series in Yankee Magazine
by Edgar Allen Beem |
Maine Masters Nominated for Emmy Award
April 12, 2011 Boston Stephen Pace: Maine Master was nominated for an Emmy Award by the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the Outstanding Arts/Entertainment category. It was broadcast as part of the MPBN Community Films series in 2010 and premiered at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City in 2009. |
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Beverly Hallam: Maine Master
Now on DVD
premiered at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art on August 23, 2011
The latest episode of the Maine Masters series is now available on DVD. See preview here.
Beverly Hallam: Artist as Innovator highlights this artist’s brilliant career, including her
 current passion, computer graphics (which she took up in her 80s). Filmed at her studio in York, Maine, this intimate Maine Masters portrait by director Richard Kane and art author Carl Little includes interviews with Vicki Wright, director of collections and exhibitions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, gallerist John Whitney Payson and art patron Mary-Leigh Smart.
From a family of inventors, engineers and artists, Beverly Hallam began exploring art as a teenager, washing her photos in the bath tub of her home in Lynn, Massachusetts. She studied at the Massachusetts College of Art, Cranbrook Academy and Syracuse University becoming a full-time artist and moving to Ogunquit, Maine , in the 1960s .
Hallam pioneered acrylic paint, mastered monotype and collage, and created large-scale airbrush portraits of flowers that astonished the critics and were coveted by collectors. Her work is in the Fogg Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Evansville Museum, and National Museum of Women in the Arts.
“This extraordinary body of images, nasturtiums, poppies, Japanese irises, freesias and other palpable flowers, confronts a reality that is in fact comprised of reflections, and that turns out to be magical rather than photographic.”
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–Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe, 1986 |
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Funding Received
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• FRED HEADS, a fundraising project for Fred Woell: An American Vision, has now broken the $8,000. mark.
This fundraising effort was started by Deer Isle, ME jeweler Sarah Doremus who has contributed 100 pieces of hand-made copper jewelry using the profile of Fred as the basis for each individualized pin. Each Fred Head sells for $35 plus shipping and tax. All proceeds go towards the production of this film. Contact mainemasters1@gmail.com for further information.
•An anonymous gift of $10,000 has been received for the film Yvonne Jacquette: Maine Master which is scheduled to be completed in 2012. |
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Upcoming Events
May 14, 2011
1-3 PM
June 2, 2011
10 PM
July 2011
TBA
August 23, 2011
6 PM |
Robert Hamilton: Maine Master screens as part the Senior College Festival of Art where Robert Hamilton (1917-2004) is the featured artist. UMaine Hutchinson Center, Belfast, ME.
Robert Hamilton, American painter 1917-2004, is the featured artist for this year’s Saturday afternoon special event at Senior College Festival of Art. We are celebrating his life and works with a presentation of the Maine Masters video, produced by Richard Kane and Robert Shetterly. Immediately following the video will be a presentation of his work by his widow, Nancy Hamilton. She will be joined by a distinguished panel moderated by nationally known artist David Estey. Other members of the panel include director and chair of the Maine Film and Video Association Richard Kane, nationally known artist Eric Hopkins, director of CMCA and former chief curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum Suzette McAvoy, international artist born in Scotland William Irvine, and nationally known artist George Llyod. Their wealth of knowledge and appreciation of Robert Hamilton’s work will lead to an informal exchange with the audience, to share influences, inspiration and the significance of his work.
Robert Hamilton is the featured artist for this year’s four-day Senior College Festival of Art. We are celebrating him with a presentation of the Maine Masters video, followed by a presentation of his work by Nancy Hamilton. We’re hoping that your knowledge and appreciation of his work will lead to an informal exchange with the audience, to share influences, inspiration and the significance of his work. I know that most of you know one another, so I’m sure you will be able to converse comfortably from your experiences with Robert, without any real preparation.
William Thon: Maine Master broadcasts on MPBN Community Films
David Larson: Maine Master broadcast premiere on MPBN
Beverly Hallam: Maine Master
premieres at the Ogunquit
Museum of American Art
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David Larson: Maine Master
Now on DVD
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The
latest episode of the Maine Masters series 
is now available on DVD.
See a preview here.
David Larson was born in 1931 and discovered at an early age that it was only in the arts–painting, music, poetry–that he felt truly alive and authentic. He chose, however, to use his artistic talents in a successful, New York advertising career until he was 40–realizing then that he had to make good on his desire to be an artist.
He moved his family to an old canning factory in Penobscot, Maine, and began painting & sculpting full time. He rapidly developed one of the most distinctive (and little known) artistic visions in the state. David said his mission was to “articulate the mystery.”
His paintings make no judgments as they explore issues of belief, doubt, angst, suffering, identity, and love. He worked from a place of rigorous integrity, loving the quest, agonizing in the unknowing. He often chose to work in long series of paintings investigating as many aspects of a story, myth, or belief system as he could. Two of these series, the story of Moby Dick and the politics of the Last Supper, are central to this documentary.
A deeply felt tribute to a great American artist by his son, Soren Larson, a television news producer and filmmaker in New York. Directed by Soren Larson, produced by Soren Larson, Richard Kane and Robert Shetterly.
Sponsored
by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, an educational organization promoting
Maine art.
© UMVA
/ Maine Masters Project 2009
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