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2022 MFA Summer intensive welcomed prominent visiting artists from interdisciplinary backgrounds Each year, our Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates at the start and midway point of the MECA&D program . . .

Watch This Space: Expressions of Queer Ecology by Maine College of Art & Design Alumni on view June 3 - October 30, 2022 Maine College of Art & Design partners with Historic New England to explore . . .

Congratulations to the Maine College of Art & Design Class of 2022! Thank you to the friends, family, and greater creativity community for making the 111th Maine College of Art & Design last Friday so . . .

The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design Presents  2022 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition On view from May 27 - June 17, 2022 Opening Reception Thursday, May 26, 5-7pm . . .

Maine College Art & Design Announces 2022 Commencement Speaker Mohamad Hafez Honorary Degrees to be conferred to Dr. Edward M. Friedman ’08 and Carole J. Friedman PORTLAND, ME—April 19, 2022—Maine . . .

Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) and Indigo Arts Alliance (IAA) are pleased to announce a partnership between the two organizations funded in part by a three-year grant from the Crewe Foundation.

MECA&D Announces Curator Raechell Smith as Visiting Artist Guest Lecturer on Monday, July 30th

Internationally renowned artist and Maine College of Art & Design graduate Ahmed Alsoudani ’05 will deliver the Commencement address at MECA&D’s 107th graduation ceremony

Portland, Maine ~ The Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Painting and MFA programs at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is pleased to invite the public to attend On Genre: A Painting . . .

The Joseph A. Fiore Painting Prizes were awarded at an opening ceremony at the Firehouse Center in Damariscotta on June 24. Maine College of Art & Design alumni Tessa Greene O'Brien MFA '16 won $1,500 for . . .

The finalists will be given a juried exhibition and cash award at the Joseph A. Fiore Galleries at the Firehouse Center in Damariscotta, Maine this summer.

Free and Open to the Public, MECA&D’s 2017 MFA Summer Lecture Series Brings Artists and Critics From Around the World to Portland, Maine MECA&D’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art Program is pleased to . . .

Congratulations to Alum Vivian Beer '00, current MFA faculty member Lauren Fensterstock, and Anna Hepler (former MFA Non-Resident Studio Advisor) for achieving this amazing milestone! Each received $50,000 . . .

Artist Joshua Reiman, who is an Assistant Professor in MECA&D’s MFA in Studio Art and Sculpture programs, recently completed the timely film The Wind Dies The Sun Sets in collaboration with fellow artist . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Kim Vose Jones MFA '12 was awarded a $10,000 Creation Grant through the New Brunswick Arts Board. The Creation Grant program is designed to provide assistance to professional New Brunswick artists for the . . .