Sunday, July 23

Opening Installation and Cakewalk

Janice Strout, "Celebration Cakes"
(see below)

The LandEscapes opening on July 23 will feature prizes of edible and non-edible cakes which are the masterpieces and celebrations of the talents of local chefs and artists. The plaques will be colorful artwork fashioned and donated by children from the MDI elementary schools.

Monday, July 24

Jesseca Ferguson Pinhole Workshop
(see below)

9-5 College of the Atlantic
$100 for one class or $150 for both
(ages 12 and up accompanied by a parent or responsible older friend/sibling)

Tuesday, July 25

Jesseca Ferguson Cyanotype Workshop (see below)

9-4 College of the Atlantic
$100 for one class or $150 for both
(ages 10 & up, accompanied by a parent or responsible older friend/sibling)

Wednesday, July 26

Christina Baker Kline Workshop
(see below)

Alice Dark, co-teacher

9-noon
$35
Southwest Harbor Library

Thursday, July 27

Candice Stover Poetry Workshop
(see below)

9-noon at a private residence in Bass Habor
$35

Panel Discussion

James Beard award winning cookbook author, Laura Schenone, will discuss her new cookbook coming out this year, as well as do a book signing. Portland artist, Lauren Fensterstock, will show slides of her work based on and in food. The audience will then be invited to come up and share memories, recipes and food ideas. In closing, poet Candice Stover and Eduardo Bohorquez will be reading Pablo Neruda’s poetry on food, in English and then in Spanish. This event promises to be delectable delicious and all inspiring.

7 p.m.
Southwest Harbor Library

Open and Free to the public.

Friday, July 28

Nancy Bowen Workshop (see below)

ARTFare Closing Feast 2006

Laura Shanone, James Beard award winning Cookbook author, will be doing a cooking demonstration at a waterfront residence on Mount Desert Island. The cost is $25. and it will include dinner and drinks. Reservations are mandatory. (Location TBA upon purchase of ticket.)

9-noon
$25
College of the Atlantic

6 p.m.
$25 pp

location provided when ticket is purchased

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Mary Barnes

Explosive Drawing
This active drawing workshop will take place at Beech Hill Farm (weather permitting) to be stimulated by the fresh Acadia air and the surroundings of the farm with its bounty of vegtables, fruits and flowers. Using graphite, acrylic paint, oil sticks and whatever other materials participants choose to bring, we will respond and explore with bold expressive marks on large squares of mylar. The individual
art work will become part of a "quilt" that will be displayed on the side of the barn for the duration of Landescapes. Everyone over 15 years old is welcome. Two mornings - 9 am - Noon. Cost: $100

Nancy Bowen

PAINTING ON DINNERWARE 
 
This workshop will go over the basics of glazing low fire food safe dinner ware. Historical designs from around the world will be presented as inspiration for our personal explorations into color, pattern and design in glaze. The plates will be fired and students may pick them up later in the week. 

College of the Atlantic; $20, open to all ages.
 
 
 

Lauren Fensterstock

Lauren Fensterstock uses ornament as a language to touch the meeting point between the corrupt and the sublime in her recent series of ephemeral works. Mixing materials as oddly paired as potatoes and diamonds these temporary works function as what Fensterstock has called "the most precarious heirlooms"

Lauren Fensterstock is a resident of Portland, Maine.  Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the US. including recent solo exhibitions at the University of Maine Museum of Art, Rhode Island College, and The Center For Maine Contemporary Art.  Other recent exhibition sites include The DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, The Portland Museum of Art 2005 Biennial, The Albany International Airport, and the Boston Center for the Arts.  In 2007 Fensterstock's work will be featured in the upcoming exhibition "Laced In History" at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI. Outside the studio, Fensterstock writes for Art New England Magazine, where she holds the role of Maine State Editor.  Fensterstock was formerly the Director of Hay Gallery in Portland and currently works as a freelance curator.  Her current  project "AFI: Looking Forward/Looking Back" will be featured at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece in 2008. Fensterstock holds degrees from SUNY New Paltz (MFA 2000) and The Parsons School of Design (BFA 1997).

Jesseca Ferguson

Handmade Cameras, Handmade Images

As photography becomes increasingly digital, many photographers are turning to techniques and processes from the dawn of photography to re-invent their image-making.  Join us for a two-day workshop in making lensless pinhole cameras, then printing our resultant negatives (or cameraless photograms) with cyanotype on artist’s papers.  Workshop participants may join us for one or both days.

On day one, we will build pinhole cameras from readily available materials, expose film, and process our negatives.  On day two, we will print our pinhole negatives and/or photograms on artist’s paper using cyanotype, an iron-based, hand-applied photo process invented in 1842.  These cyanotype images may then be embellished with sewing, collage, drawing, hand-coloring, etc.  Slides, books, and further resources will expand students’ awareness of contemporary photographers working with pinhole cameras and hand-made photographic processes.  Previous darkroom experience is helpful but not necessary.

Christina Baker Kline

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A Writing Workshop

We eat; we talk, think, dream about food.  Like Proust, we all have our madeleines -- those foods that trigger memory.  In this workshop we will explore the process of writing about food from one's own experience, looking particularly at how memory and place can serve as points of departure.  In doing so, we will address issues of satiety and sustenance, longing and desire.  In in-class exercises and excerpts from Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me With Apples, by Ruth Reichl; A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove, by Laura Schenone, and Crazy in the Kitchen, by Louise DeSalvo, we'll examine how the details of everyday life -- getting up in the morning, eating breakfast, etc. -- can be transformed imaginatively through the use of setting, sensory detail, and dialogue.

christinabakerkline.com

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novel Think of England and two collections of short stories, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harper’s, among other places, and has been chosen for inclusion in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. Her story, “In the Gloaming,” was made into films by HBO and Trinity Playhouse. She is a past recipient of a National  Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Laura Schenone

Laura Schenone is the author of "A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A
History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances,"
which won a James Beard Book Award in 2004. She's currently at work on a
memoir "The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family,"
to be published by W.W. Norton, 2007. Her writings on food and other topics
have appeared in the New Jersey Star Ledger, The Washington Post, The New
York Times, and other venues. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the
City College of New York and has been cooking for her family for many years,
though not quite a thousand. To learn more, visit her web site
www.lauraschenone.com

Candice Stover

JUST BRING A POEM TO THE PICNIC

Blackberries. Raspberries. Chunk honey. Tomatoes. Artichokes. Peaches. French fries. Plums. In this workshop, we'll get a taste of these and other edibles as they're transformed and preserved in that essential language we call poetry. Together we'll read poems celebrating food as history and memory, sensuality and relationship, and the nourishment in words that chewing on a poem can offer. We'll also draw on some of the poets--including Neruda and Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Kenyon and W.S. Merwin, Pattiann Rogers and Rumi--for inspiration into writing our own poems (or at least first-course drafts of them!). How many ways might a poem about food reveal where we come from, what we believe matters, who we are? We'll look at a poem about soy sauce for one answer, meet a talking chickpea in another. For this picnic, just pack your notebook and be ready to feast on words.  

Janice Strout

Janice, a resident of Bar Harbor, has been involved in the "food" business since 1981, cooking, and baking in local restaurants. She started her wedding cake business as a side line while working full time. She found she was baking around the clock so she left the restaurant business in 1992 to make a go at the wedding cake business. Since then she has been as busy as possible with cakes. Strout reflects, "My customers inspire me and challenge me. The cakes give me a chance to stay creative. I am very grateful for that."

jcakes@earthlink.net

send an e-mail to info@mdi-landescapes or call 1-917-216-8102 for more information and to sign-up.