2005 MFA in Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition June 18 through August 14 The 2005 MFA Faculty Exhibition showcases the extraordinary accomplishments of the college's Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts program faculty, which draws from the Maine College of Art and an international roster of artists.

This year, the exhibition features new work by resident faculty members Katarina Weslien and Iain Kerr as well as the debut of the MFA Archive, a publishing project documenting the history and accomplishments of the program, and—in three separate galleries—large-scale video installations by internationally renowned artists Amar Kanwar of New Delhi, India, Shirin Neshat, born in Iran and working in the United States; and the Stockholm, Sweden, based creative team of Staffan Schmidt and Mike Bode, all of whom are visiting professors in the MFA program. The exhibition features Kanwar’s A Season Outside, 1998, a film set on the heavily militarized India/Pakistan border, Neshat’s Soliloquy, 1999, a two-channel meditation on identity in Islamic and Christian cultures, and Schmidt and Bode’s Spaces of Conflict, 2004, a multimedia video and audio analysis of the dynamics of power in six Scandanavian art museums.