Belfast Poetry Festival Artist/Poet Collaorationsb in the Corridor Gallery through December 23.

Gallery Hours Tuesday-Friday 10 to 5 and by appointment 338-2222. Exhibit can be seen whenever the building is open for other events. Call for more information.

Anna Strickland with poet Elizabeth Benjamin
Anna Strickland is an installation artist who teaches in the Photography Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is most passionate about, and an expert in, antique photographic processes. Her installation work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. Currently she is in a group exhibition in Houston, TX called “Evolutionaries: Art and Healing” and her installation “Given” will be shown at the Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ in 2012. Her most recent international exhibit was “The Ladder Series” at Galerie Spéos, Paris, France in 2010. Her work can be found in private and public collections both in the USA and Europe. She has an MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has received grants from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Pollack Krasner Foundation. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and had a residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. For several years she has been working on an installation called “Mind the Gap” which deals with humankind’s relationship with the natural world so when she moved her studio from NYC to Waterfall Arts in 2007 it seemed like a perfect fit. Her website: www.nextduchamp.com

Elisabeth Benjamin lives and farms alongside Cobscook Bay in Washington County. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Iowa Review, Thermos, New Orleans Review, Black Warrior Review and Parcel, and her chapbook, The Houses, was published in 2009 by The Catenary Press. In 2010 she received a Martin Dibner Fellowship from the Maine Community Foundation.

Mary Jean Viano Crowe with poet Molly McDonald

Maryjean Viano Crowe uses materials in unique ways to create mixed media installations that often incorporate clothing
as art, large–scale photographic assemblages, light box shrines, artist books, and mixed media paintings. Her work has
been exhibited and published nationally. Included in numerous private and museum collections, including the Polaroid International Collection and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Crowe received a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts in Photography, and a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in 1987, a grant for which she was also a three time Finalist. Among the museums where her work has been exhibited are the DeCordova, Danforth and Fuller Museums regionally. Nationally Viano Crowe’s work has been seen at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida, the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange, Georgia, Artemesia Gallery in Chicago and Light Impressions in San Francisco. Her website: mjvianocrowe.com/

Molly McDonald teaches English at Washington County Community College. She lives in Eastport.

 

Barbara Andrus with poet Ira Sadoff

Barbara Andrus has recently been working mostly in Maine, between Belfast and Swans Island. She is always looking for and collecting materials. For her most recent sculpture, she has collected wild quartz rocks and selected ocean–gone wood, and then words, stories and images about water and water animals. She works with the tree parts, milkweed silk, crochet-related forms, book–making, fabric over branches, felting and knitting. Her website: www.barbaraandruss.com

Ira Sadoff is the author of seven collections of poetry (most recently Barter), a novel, O. Henry prize-winning short stories, and The Ira Sadoff Reader. A new collection of poems, True Faith, will be published next year by BOA. His new critical book, History Matters, on the relationship between poetry and culture, was published by the University of Iowa.

He is the recipient of Fellowship from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Former poetry editor of The Antioch Review and co–founder of The Seneca Review, he has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the MFA programs at the University of Virginia, Warren Wilson, and currently teaches at Colby College and the MFA program at Drew University.

 

top image by Anna Strickland, middle by Maryjean Viano Crowe, bottom by Barbara Andrus