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"Water Marks: Inside/Outside" will be held this summer from July 26-August 2. Installations, exhibitions, presentations and workshops surrounding the theme of water are scheduled for this exciting arts and science event.

"Water Marks-Inside," art exhibition is organized by Blum Gallery Director and faculty member at the College of the Atlantic Susan Lerner, and curated by Patricia Phillips. Ms Phillips is a professor at SUNY-New Paltz and is the executive director of Art Journal, a College Art Association journal publication. She writes extensively on the arts with an emphasis on public art, architecture and outdoor sculpture installation. Among the artists selected for this exhibition is Hope Sandrow, photographer and installation artist, who recently was sponsored by the Nature Conservancy and traveled to the Komodo National Park in South Central Indonesia. She did a photographic series of the movement of water, placing her camera above and below the waterline, some of which will be exhibited at the Blum Gallery. They are now part of a travel exhibition that opened at the Corcoran Art Museum, in Washington, D.C. Also, Karen Shaw, artist and curator at the Islip Art Museum, New York will be exhibiting her sculpture in of piano scrolls that resemble waterfalls. And, Frances Whitehead, who is on the sculpture faculty at Chicago Art Institute, and recently was a AIR in Holland, and will exhibit her ceramic "bodies of water" created while working in a Holland public waterworks project

The outdoor exhibition/installation component of "LandEscapes 2003" is titled "Water Marks/Outside," organized by Sam Shaw with Nancy Manter. Mr. Shaw is a jewelry designer and owner of Shaw Jewelry in Northeast Harbor and a member of the board of "LandEscapes." Nancy Manter, founder and director of "LandEscapes," is an artist and on the faculty at Princeton University. Using the concept of a summer garden tour, a selection of outdoor floating constructions, will be sited in Mount Desert Island’s ponds, lakes and shore front, and can be publicly viewed from roadways, or by boat. A map locating these floating installations will be available at stores, information centers and other public places throughout the Island, as well as listed in extensive publicity. This information will also be available on the symposium’s website. There is no entry fee for this installation project. Anyone wishing to create a floating "Water Marks" construction should go to www.mdi-landescapes.com to get more information and download a manual and application form. Everyone is encouraged to apply; artists, schools, special interest groups, boat builders and any other enthusiastic group or individual. An art background is not necessary to enter this competition. All constructions must be water and float-ready and tested before they can be installed on Friday July 25. Materials as well as any material restrictions can be found by clicking here ->

Workshops this summer will include Papermaking; a basic class for adults and children, and a "Water Marks" class, taught again by Susan Gosin, founder of New York City’s Dieu Donne Papermill. A Landscape Painting workshop will be held for two consecutive days on the Island, taught by Richard Barrett, painter, teacher and guest critic at Princeton University. His paintings have been exhibited widely. Film workshops will also be returning, Mark Lipman’s workshop entitled "Digital Filmmaking with mini-DV and iMovie." Lipman is a producer, director and editor, living in Boston, Ma. Nancy Andrews, filmmaker and on the film faculty at the COA, will also be teaching two classes; "Basic Film Animation for Kids" and "Basic Film Animation for Adults." Roxana Robertson, award-winning author from New York City and Northeast Harbor, will offer a one day fiction Writing Workshop as well as doing a reading from one of her recent publications at the closing ceremony. "Banners," a large scale "Banner Workshop Collaboration," organized by Carol Shutt, artist and teacher on the Island year-round, will be offered to both children and adults, to installed at The Gardens for Humanities at Willow Winds, a riding program for children with learning disabilities, and the Marine Museum, founded by Sydney Rockefeller, located in Northeast Harbor. No previous art experience is necessary for this group project.

The Artists in Residence this summer were chosen based on their previous work, incorporating science and water theme into their art form. They will be working on various sites around the Island, including the College of the Atlantic and the MDI Biological Laboratory. Frances Whitehead, from Chicago., Illinois, and Jackie Brockner, from New York City, are both public installation artists whose individual work has been in various public waterworks systems here in the States, and abroad. Peter Hutton, filmmaker of American Avant-garde cinema will also be a visiting artist, and will be showing some of his award-winning films at the College including Study of a River, Time and Tide and Looking at the Sea. His recent work was projected onto the Holland Tunnel air shaft, a public Hudson River project organized by the Minetta Brook Foundation, and chaired by Patricia Phillips.

An evening artist/slide presentation is scheduled presenting work by the various art participants in "LandEscapes 2003." Also, special guest lecturer Dr. Joseph Silvio, MD, psychiatrist from Maryland, who will be giving a presentation on "Watermusic," an exploration of emotion based on various musicologists and psychoanalysts perspectives. Singer/Songwriters from Austin, Texas, including Lyle Lovett, will be the focus of this music for this unique presentation. Other events will include a trip, organized by Carol Shutt to Islesford to visit and experience the beauty as well as the artistic life of artists living and working on the Island. A beach walk and "brown bag" picnic will follow. The symposium will wrap up the week by having an outdoor Twilight Ceremony at one of the "Water Marks/Outside" sites (to be announced). Gospel music, a reading by Roxana Robinson and a poet to be announced, will be part of this closing celebration of "Water Marks." WATER is a life-giving force with vast physical, emotional and environmental complexity in the twenty-first Century.

Anyone interested in housing artists or working in one of the many components of the symposium should contact us at: info@mdi-landescapes.com.