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LandEscapes 2002

Opening Reception

LandEscapes 2002

Workshops

Monday, July 22, 2002 Papermaking with Sue Gosin, founder of Dieu Donné Papermaking, NYC
(Causeway Club Barn, Southwest Harbor)

Sue Gosin is the founder of Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City. For more than 25 years, Ms. Gosin has made archival paper for conservation labs at the Library of Congress and has collaborated with artists on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art made of handmade paper pulp.


Thursday, July 25, 2002 Digital Filmmaking with Mark Lipman, Boston, MA (The College of the Atlantic)

Mark Lipman, a filmmaker, producer and editor who lives in Boston, Mass. Among his films are Finding Our Way, Harvest of Dreams and Holding Ground which was broadcast nationally on public television. He is a member of New Day Films, a national distribution cooperative for social issue films, and has worked at NOVA and for Eyes on the Prize.


	Friday, July 26, 2002 Faerie House Building Betsy Williams, Andover, MA (Turrets, The College of the Atlantic)

Betsy Williams is an author, lecturer and teacher. She has an extensive knowledge of plant lore, history and seasonal celebrations. Her gardens and floral work have been showcased in many books, national magazines and newspapers. She summered in Machias for years, and attended Colby College. Her husband and book illustrator, Ned, summered in Bar Harbor.

LandEscapes 2002

Installations


Installations, weeklong (Turrets, The College of the Atlantic)

Greg Lock

Greg Lock is a digital artist and sculptor who works with real objects and virtual reality. He creates uninhibited interventions in various three dimensional spaces. He has held residencies recently at the IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts) Centre in Manchester, England. He hails from England but is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Sculpture at Purchase College, SUNY. Greg will be doing a GPS mapping of the local area and transferring that data into a sculptural form.

This exhibition includes drawings and photographs which document personal responses to the tragic events of September 11. Lorie Novak and Nancy Bowen will show photographs of the ad hoc memorials built around the city to commemorate the missing. Susannah Heller will show drawings done of the World Trade Center and the area when she had a studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. Mimi Gross will show sketches done on the site of the people involved in rescue and clean up efforts. Rebecca Howland will exhibit drawings and visual poems made as her neighborhood was thrown into chaos.

Ellen Driscoll

Ellen Driscoll is a sculptor known for her installations and public projects, most notably As Above, So Below for the new Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Her work is included in major private and public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. She is a Professor of Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Ellen will be doing a poetic temporary installation made of string and weights in the Turrets Building.

Nancy Davidson

Nancy Davidson is a sculptor and digital artist who is known for her gargantuan colorful weather balloon sculptures that explore ideas about humour and pleasure. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. She will be included in the Corcoran Biannual at the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. in December 2002. She is a Full Professor of Painting at Purchase College, SUNY. Nancy will be installing a weather balloon sculpture either off the coast or on the grounds of COA.

Susan Osberg, originally from Maine is a choreographer and dancer from New York City and will be performing a dance entitled Listening Shell/ Spiral Bones; Music Composed by Jon Gibson from CD Stalling into Elation, excerpt:Three Lives and Something, (1999); backdrop by Nancy Manter.

Opening reception

Papermaking Workshop

Filmmaking Workshop

Faerie House Building

Installations

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