March 2, 2012
Reading Group: The Help at Edmunds Conference Center @ NMCC
Get involved in a reading group this semester: The Help or Last Boy on Earth or All Quiet on the Western Front. Library has copies. Pick a book and join the reading group. The Help is meeting at noon in the Edmunds Conference Center on March 2nd.
Classes: After School Arts Program for Grades 1-6
Session II
February 28-March 16
Amazing Animal Art!
With and eye toward contemporary and master artists, a variety of expressions using animals will be investigated through the use o paint, mixed media and sculpture.
March 27-April 13
Explore Mexico! Let’s go!
Let Wintergreen Arts Center become your magical hacienda for Mexican culture! Explore the sights and sounds. TRy the food, listen to the music, dance the dances! Break the pinnate Create withe primal colors of native Mexico! Vamanos amigos!
General Information:
Registrations for all programs will be taken at the William V. Haskell Community Center, Monday-Friday from 8-5pm.
Registration for Session I begins December 12, 2011
Session II begins February 7, 2012
Session III begins April 3, 2012
This after-school arts program held at Wintergreen Art Center is for grades 1-6. Once there, children will receive homework help, enjoy healthy snacks, create self directed studio projects,participate in reading time, and explore the arts and cultures of the world in a safe and supportive environment.
The cost of the program is $60 per session fro Presque Isle residents with an additional $30 fee for non-residents.
Financial assistance is available. Please contact the Presque Isle Rec Center at 764-2545 for more information or to register.
Grades 1-3 meet on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00 to 5:30pm.
Grades 4-6 meet on Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 to 5:30pm.
Exhibition Opening: H² :New Work by Hyrum Benson and Heather Sincavage @ Reed Gallery
*PRESS RELEASE*
PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Reed Fine Art Gallery will showcase the work of UMPI’s two newest Fine Art Faculty members when it presents the exhibition H(squared): New Work by Hyrum Benson and Heather Sincavage from March 2 to A…pril 14. The public is invited to attend the exhibition’s reception with the artists, to be held on Friday, March 2 from 5-7 p.m. The reception is being held in conjunction with the Presque Isle First Friday Art Walk.
H(squared) is an exhibition of Benson and Sincavage’s newest work made since both have transplanted to Aroostook County.
Hyrum Benson is a ceramics artist originally from Idaho, who joined the UMPI faculty after teaching at the University of North Texas since 2006. Benson is an accomplished artist with several years of successful exhibits and shows. He has presented exhibitions in galleries from Texas and Georgia to Kansas and Idaho, and has art work in the permanent collection at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Benson said his current ceramic work focuses on the formal elements of design, but that he is also interested in, and with, the industrial.
“I am exploring how the mass-produced relate to ceramics, how engineered parts reproduced by hand translate on the vessel and sculptural forms,” Benson said. “As of now, my surface treatment is very minimal to add focus to the form. I am currently influenced by architectural and engineering feats, graphic design, interior design, green design and green architecture, and, in a way, this all comes back to play a part in my work.”
Benson is a graduate of the University of North Texas with his MFA in Ceramics, and Brigham Young University-Idaho with a BFA in 3D Studies, Ceramics emphasis.
Heather Sincavage is a mixed media artist who relocated to Maine from Pennsylvania. She has taught the past six years at Lehigh University and 10 years at the Baum School of Art. She has had several commissioned pieces and exhibitions at galleries in Pennsylvania, Texas, and New Jersey, and as far away as Spain. Sincavage has been awarded numerous Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants; been grant funded to attend the Vermont Studio Center; and was a Spring 2010 Artist in Residence at Lehigh University. In May 2011, she was awarded the “Outstanding Contributions to Visual Art” Award by the Allentown Arts Commission, City of Allentown.
“In the context of the contemporary portrait, I explore materiality as the conduit of portraying one’s emotional construct,” Sincavage said of her work. “The portrait is less about superficial appearance and more about one’s consciousness.”
Sincavage is a graduate of the University of Washington with an MFA in Metal Design, concentrating on interdisciplinary practices. Her BFA is from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Jewelry and Metalsmithing.
The reception for H(squared), which will feature a talk by both artists, will be held in the Reed Fine Art Gallery on Friday, March 2, from 5-7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. There is no charge and light refreshments will be served.
The Reed Fine Art Gallery is open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed Sundays and University holidays. For more information about this event, please contact Sincavage at 768-9442.
