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Gallery Talk: A Partial History of the Renaissance — Willard Leroy Metcalf in Maine
Gallery Talk by Exhibition Research Assistant Gordon Wilkins
 
Four in Maine: Drawings - Conversations with the Artists
This year’s presentation of Four in Maine, an annual exhibition program featuring the works of living artists in our state, focuses on the nature and use of drawing by this year’s artists: Mary Barnes, Emily Brown, Tim Lawson and John Moore. Their approaches to subject matter and medium range widely, and the panel discussion will enable the exhibition organizer, Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky, to engage this articulate group of artists on the importance of drawing in their work. There will also be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions.
 
Seating: limited to 60 people
Cost: $5 members, $8 nonmembers
First Friday Films: !Women Art Revolution
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
 
A Conversation with Paul Caponigro
Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky will talk with renowned American photographer and 2011 Maine in America Award winner Paul Caponigro about his work and his life. Held in conjunction with the Farnsworth’s exhibition, Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places, organized by Komanecky, the conversation will explore issues of subject matter, technique and the spiritual foundations of Caponigro’s art. There will also be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions as well.
 


Seating: limited to 60 people
Wyeth Day Lecture: Andrew Wyeth and Christina’s World
In 2009, Governor John Baldacci proclaimed July 12 as Wyeth Day throughout the State of Maine, and urged all citizens to honor N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Betsy James Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth who have collectively served this state for almost ninety years. On Tuesday, July 12, 6 p.m. the Farnsworth Art Museum will celebrate the third annual Wyeth Day with a lecture by the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky given free to the public.
 
Farnsworth Films at The Strand: Bill Cunningham New York
Between the Lines Poetry Reading
Award-winning poet Kathleen Ellis and participants in her annual poetry writing workshop invite the public to a reading in the museum's auditorium, which will be the culmination of the group's week-long poetry workshop. Guest poet Kristen Lindquist will also be featured.
 
During the workshop, participants wrote in response to works on view in the museum such as photography by Paul Caponigro, Wyeth's drawings for Christina's World, and sculpture by Jesse Salisbury & Kazumi Hoshino.
 
Presenting poets include: Carol Bachofner, Elizabeth Berkenbile, Audrey Friedman, Lenora Goldman, Ellen Goldsmith, Eileen Hugo, Judy Kaber, Dita Ondek, Gayle Portnow, Wendy Satin Rapaport, Marge Roberts, Hadassa Wisch, and others.
Between the Lines: Poetry Writing Workshop with Kathleen Ellis
Led by poet Kathleen Ellis, this workshop will explore the connections between poetry and art, using the museum’s exhibits, Rockland waterfront, and historic Olson House as sources for writing. This year’s focus will be on Paul Caponigro’s landscape photography and the preliminary sketches for Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World. Experimentation with a wide range of poetic forms will be used to jumpstart new poems, and the workshop will also include activities with maps and photographs, as well as daily group critiques. On the last day of the workshop, instructor Kathleen Ellis will give a 1 p.m. public reading in the museum auditorium and workshop participants will be invited to read a selection of their poems written during the workshop.
 
Linoleum Block Printing with Holly Berry
Folded Books with Alison Kuller
In this one-day workshop, students will learn how to transform a common object, a single sheet of paper (or two), into an entirely new form with endless possibilities. In fact, some of the least known and most elegant books are simply pieces of paper folded together. Similar to origami, but more than just decorative items, these playful books are also useful. Structures taught include a classic lotus form, Hedi Kyle’s brilliant Blizzard Book, and a Swedish miniature book.