Each season Waterfall Arts invites a special guest artist to serve as an Artist-in-Residence in its mission-based Connections: Artists/Nature/Community program. Residencies vary in length, but each includes a teaching, exhibition and community presentation component. Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter, Belfast and Montville.

Earth Week Residency for Teens with Abby Sadauckas, April 22–28, 2007
Abby Sadauckas is an accomplished young Maine artist whose work embraces her deep commitment to the environment and our stewardship of it. She is a graduate of Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art & Design and has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work may be viewed at www.abbysadauckas.com.

The 8-12 student participants will be selected by Waterfall Arts staff in consultation with art teachers from the three Waldo County school districts (SAD 3, 34 and 56). Sadauckas will lead the teens in conceiving, designing and installing a multi-media site-specific work that generates awareness of the connections between the local, national and global environments. The work will be installed in an accessible area of Waterfall Arts’ Belfast building and will remain on view for one month. It will open with a public reception and presentation by the teens and Sadauckas on Saturday, April 28. Waterfall Arts’ Belfast building is open daily, free to the public.

UPCOMING – Summer 2007 Artist-in-Residence Michael Shaughnessy www.michaelshaughnessy.com

Shaughnessy, who is descended from a long line of farmers, uses hay as his principle medium, creating works which “mark points at which human lives intersect with the life of the earth,” as such his work is particularly relevant to rural Waldo County, an area traditionally populated with small family farms. A professor at the University of Southern Maine, Shaughnessy has conducted similar residencies throughout this country and actively invites community participation in his works.

For more information on this residency, email info@waterfallarts.org or call 207-338-2222.

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