MECA News

Picture This... The Art and Workings of Illustration Institute is a MECA supported exhibition that shares the ideas, process, craft and art of seventeen local and national professional illustrators including: . . .

Upcoming ICA Show In This Realm Explores Identity and Transformation Through the Lens of Five Artists On view from October 6–21, 2016 Exhibition Opening: Thursday, October 6, 2016, . . .

MECA’s Bachelor of Fine Art Program is pleased to announce the 2016 Visiting Artist & Guest Lecturers Series. MECA invites professional artists, educators, curators, thought leaders, and creative . . .

Dwelling Place Interactive Public Art to be Installed at MECA in October Community Celebration Hosted on October 18 at 12:30pm at MECA’s Green Space on Casco Street Maine College Of Art, in conjunction . . .

MECA community members who stop by the MECA Cafe on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, from 11:00am–1:30pm, can enjoy a Maine-made tasting event! Jarva Cakes, co-owned by Sydney Shields '14, along with her . . .

In Nocturnes, Faculty Michel Droge MFA '10 approaches the qualities of night that evoke feelings of the sublime...

Local Portland, Maine, artist Aaron Stephan MFA ’02 was chosen by Portland’s City Council in June, 2016, to design a public art sculpture that is part of an overall revisioning for Portland’s Woodfords . . .

American Craft Week has announced the winners of the 2016 Rising Star Competition, which selects 30 exceptional craft artists under the age of 30 in the United States. Danielle Gerber ’12, who lives in . . .

A number of MECA community members have been included in a recent artist opportunity organized by the City of Portland, Maine.

Former Director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Will Serve As MECA’s President Until a Permanent Successor to Don Tuski is Hired MECA’s Board of Trustees has recently announced that Stuart . . .

New Mexico artist Ellen Babcock ’84 is the lead artist behind the All Hands On banner project, which includes a parade and exhibition on Labor Day (September 5), 2016, in Portland, Maine. Following the . . .

JamraPatel has just published a calculator app for Google’s Android mobile device platform.

Visitors to the ICA at MECA can look forward to Bounty, Anguish, In This Realm, and The Unity of Opposites.

Veronica A. Perez, MFA '16 and Isabelle O'Donnell, Painting '17 have been accepted into the 2016 Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition. This juried exhibition is a survey of contemporary art from graduate . . .

Jarrett Mellenbruch MFA ’14, who teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute, has been working on Haven, a functioning beehive sculpture project designed to grow into a nationwide network of 1,000 beehives that . . .

Design studio JamraPatel LLC has launched its first mobile device app: a keyboard and communication utility for the iPhone and iPad which facilitates the use of N’ko, a West African script. Portland-based . . .

Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love at ICA at MECA presents works by video and performance artist Ann Hirsch made over the last decade. The Los Angeles-based artist is known for her approachable and often humorous . . .

Made in LA showcases established and entrepreneurial creative and innovative makers in Lewiston Auburn Made in LA is an interactive exhibition of the thriving yet often hidden creative makers in Lewiston . . .