The Art of Stewardship: Campus as Canvas
Saturday, October 3, 2009
| The “Art of Stewardship” is a calling out to those who speak the language that is universally understood—one that has the potential to raise awareness, inspire, and celebrate our role as “Stewards” of our tiny oasis in space. At this point in history, no challenge is more important or more immediate in nature. Our very survival depends on it. --Greg Mort |
Saturday, October 3, 2009, Unity College will host
the second Art of Stewardship workshop.
Please join us as we continue to develop the campus as a living laboratory
for ecological art and sustainability education.
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Greg Mort will join us on Saturday morning to discuss the vision of the “Art of Stewardship” and get your best ideas as to how to promote, implement, and proceed with a variety of future program initiatives and partnerships. Donna McNeil, director of the Maine Arts Commission, will share her ideas for preserving beauty in the Maine landscape through the art of stewardship.
The second part of the day we will ‘make art’ on campus. We have invited you because we believe that your record of work embodies exactly the kind of vision to which we aspire. Your participation will help Unity College campus become a palette of arts-based, ecological awareness and a model for other colleges and organizations that aspire to become sustainable.
Students from our new undergraduate course, The Art of Stewardship, will join us and will carry out the implementation of projects started on Saturday.
Please pass the word to your friends and colleagues, to students and faculty, to professionals in organizations that might be interested in this idea. The conference registration is free as we received a grant to continue our efforts. We are limited to 40 people. A more detailed agenda will be sent to interested participants.
| Schedule |
Art of Stewardship: Campus as Canvas
October 3, 2009
9: 00 am - 5:00 pm |
9:00 am
Breakfast Gathering in the Leonard Craig Art Gallery
9:30 am
Welcome and Introductions
10:00 am
Greg Mort on The Art of Stewardship
11:00 am
Donna McNeil, Chair of the Maine Arts Commission
Presentation: Everything is Designed
11:30 am
Creative Possibilities for the Art of Stewardship
12:00 noon
Light Lunch in the Leonard Craig Art Gallery
1:00 pm
Art-Making on Campus
Participants will work in groups led by an artist facilitator to design and install art on campus. Instructor/facilitators include: Greg Mort, Margot Kelley, Ben Potter, Mike Kelly, Dianne Eno, Lisa Martin (bios below)
4:00 pm
Exhibitions
5:00 pm
Program Concludes
| Instructors |
Art of Stewardship: Campus as Canvas
October 3, 2009
9: 00 am - 5:00 pm |
Greg Mort
Largely-self taught as an artist, Greg Mort is considered one of America’s foremost contemporary painters and a preeminent influence on art in the twenty first century. His unmistakably modern creations have the classic feel of the Dutch Masters but are juxtaposed with startlingly modern designs. They are included in many prominent collections including the Smithsonian, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Academy Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, and Bradywine River Museum. To celebrate Mort’s thirtieth anniversary as an artist, in 2007 Sea Glass Publishing released a stunning hardcover volume titled VOYAGES—EXPLORING THE ART OF GREG MORT. It features one hundred fifty signature water colors and oils, landscapes and still-lifes. Mort maintains long-standing and valued relationships with two prestigious world class American galleries. Greg has enjoyed a warm partnership with the world renowned Carla Massoni Gallery in Chestertown, Maryland, which for fifteen years has represented his work nationally and internationally. In addition for over twenty years he has collaborated with the celebrated Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, Delaware, which also exhibits N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth.
Mark Kelly
Born in Amityville, New York, Mark Kelly moved to Boston in 1990, and earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1997. He lives in Belfast with his wife Michelle and their three daughters. While his work focuses primarily on drawing, Mark also works with collage, assemblage, Polaroid photography, and plays percussion and turntables in an improvisational experimental music project. Exhibitions include the 18th Annual Drawing Show at the Boston Center for the Arts/Mills Gallery; The Lincoln Street Center for the Arts 2005 Invitational, Rockland; Guerilla One, Easthampton, MA; the Out of Bounds Altered Book Show, Rockport; Art From Intuition, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA; The Crossing of Time and Environment: Micro Installation, Tainan County, Taiwan; and First Traces, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME.
Ben Potter
Ben Potter is an Associate Professor at Unity College in Maine. Potter, originally from Tennessee, majored in Art and Biology at Williams College, where he was awarded a Mellon Grant for experimental work in the arts, and a Hutchinson fellowship. He received his M.F.A. from the California College of Arts in 1998, and has since exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Ben taught classes in sculpture, design, photography, drawing and painting in Vermont and Wisconsin before becoming associate professor of art at Unity College in Maine. Ben's art practice stems from his interdisciplinary background, and uses subjects drawn primarily from the sciences as the basis for his formal and conceptual investigations. These 'investigations' may include plastic shopping bags, tin foil or motorcycle helmets.
Margot Anne Kelley
Margot Anne Kelley is an artist and educator who splits her time between
Maine and Massachusetts, where she is currently a member of the photography
department at the Art Institute of Boston. Her work often combines
photography, writing, and locative media in ways that provoke new
engagements with place. She concentrates on understanding and making
artworks which reveal a deep engagement with the world at large, and
encourages her students to cultivate a similar pleasure in following their
curiosity. Her book Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America was published
in 2006.
Lisa Martin
Martin graduated from Unity College in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, Art & Literature, receiving the Dean's Award and honorable mention in the humanities. She completed a residency in photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops in 1995, continuing as a course manager, eventually teaching foundation level black and white courses for several years. She has begun a low-residency M.F.A. in Visual Arts program at Vermont College. Also, Martin is an adjunct faculty member at Unity College, teaching black and white photography and art history.
Dianne Eno
Dianne Eno is a native New Hampshire artist who began dance training at age three. She studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music and graduated from the University of Massachusetts while pursuing a specialized degree in Choreography and Dance Production under the guidance of Rosalind DeMille. Professional training includes Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and School and most recently Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, where Ms. Eno was selected as a participant in Bessie Schoenberg's celebrated Choreographer's Lab.
Often staging her dances in unlikely places in the out-of-doors, she and her company have performed her innovative brand of dance on mountain summits, in rivers and streams in forests and along the rugged and rocky coastline of Maine. Other recent performance credits include: commissioned environmental site-specific dance works, "Dances for Sugar River" at the New England Artists Trust IV (Newport,N.H.) and the Manhattan Eco-Fest in NYC. Ms. Eno is authoring the book "Mountain Dance" which will chronicle her nearly twenty years of experiences of dancing on Mt. Monadnock. She has an MA from New York University in NYC, in the study of Environmental Conservation Education/ Environmental Art and is currently a PhD candidate at Antioch University.
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