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July 1, 2020 Maine College of Art is honored to announce the election of Denise Carey, Diane Garthwaite, and Gimbala Sankare to the Board of Trustees and the re-election of former Trustee Debby Dluhy, . . .

Dear members of the MECA Community, I am writing to you today to share an update on our plan to welcome students, faculty, and staff to campus as safely as possible this summer and fall. Maine College of Art . . .

Celebrating the Class of 2020 View a recording of the Class of 2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony. June 8, 2020 To honor the Class of 2020 during a time when large gatherings are not permitted, MECA celebrated . . .

Photograph by Tim Greenway Salt ’03. June 1, 2020 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin From coast to coast, for more than . . .

Laura Freid has a resume peppered with Ivy League schools that led to a globe-trotting job with a world-famous musician, which she left to become the newest president of Maine College of Art.

Like so many others across the country, I am deeply troubled by the Trump administration’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program. MECA will not be silent about the need to . . .

Former CEO and Executive Director of The Silk Road Project at Harvard University will lead MECA through next phase of growth.