Area Arts

Quilt Show to Benefit The Boxberry School

Oxford, ME – October 20, 2004 – The Boxberry School is hosting a quilt show on Saturday, November 6 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m at the school (301 Webber Brook Road in Oxford). There will be a variety of beautiful quilts on display which will be judged by a panel, and ribbons will be awarded. Admission is $5, and all proceeds will benefit The Boxberry School. Tea and cookies will be served. For more information or to enter your quilt, call Beth Allen at 743.7297 or email her at bethany@megalink.net. The Boxberry School is a non-profit, independent elementary school in Oxford Hills. For more information on The Boxberry School, call 207.743.9700 or visit www.boxberryschool.org

Calling All Violin Teachers!!

National music educator Mimi Zweig will present a special workshop for teachers of violin, "Establishing a Healthy Foundation." The workshop will cover the fundamentals of how to find the most natural physical way to approach string playing. The workshop is presented by the Maine Suzuki Teachers Association co-sponsored by the University of Southern Maine School of Music and the Maine American String Teachers Association with the National School Orchestra Association.

"Establishing a Healthy Foundation" will be held at 2 p.m. Friday,November 5 in Corthell Concert Hall, on the USM Gorham Campus. The fee for participant registration is $40 per person. For more information call Terry at 878-5991.

Zweig's fundamental principles of violin teaching are based on nurturing natural physical motions in a non-judgmental environment which allows the development of a facile and secure technique that gives the performer the freedom to play with musical sensitivity and confidence.

Mimi Zweig is the director of the Indiana University String Academy andProfessor of Violin and Viola. She leads master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States and Europe. Since 1972 she has developed children's string programs at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and the String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has recently produced StringPedagogy.com, an innovative web-based teaching tool. She is the director of IU Young Violinists Program and summer String Academy.

The String Academy and Mimi Zweig are recent recipients of a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation grant. Her students have won numerous competitions and teach and perform worldwide.

Film: Wilderness and Spirit, a Mountain Called Katahdin, by Maine filmmaker Huey

Friday, October 22, 6:30 p.m., Portland Museum of Art Auditorium. Tickets: $5. Sample beers provided by Shipyard Brewing Company. Call (207) 775-6148, ext. 3227 for tickets or information.

The Portland Museum of Art is pleased to present a special screening of the poetic documentary Wilderness and Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin, a film by Maine filmmaker Huey. Five years in the making, the film captures the spirit of Katahdin and the people who have been drawn to Maine's "Great Mountain." It explores ways of thinking about the wilderness and how people from many walks of life have found spiritual solace and strength in Katahdin.

This landmark documentary includes never-before-seen footage of the Katahdin 100 Run of the Penobscot people as well as Earl Shaffer's historic climb up Katahdin on his 50th anniversary AT Thru Hike.

Before the Portland Museum of Art screening, Maine-based Shipyard Brewing Company will be on hand with a variety of Maine-based beers to be sampled. Tickets are $5 each and may be reserved by calling (207) 775-6148, ext. 3227. The film will start at 7 p.m. and is 100 minutes long. The Shipyard Tasting is a 21 and over event.

Portland Museum Of Art Announces Artists Chosen For The 2005 Biennial

(Portland, Maine) After receiving a record number of entries for the 2005 Portland Museum of Art Biennial exhibition, the Portland Museum of Art is pleased to announce that 93 works by 62 artists have been selected for the show. This past summer, 948 artists submitted 3,792 slides to be considered by a panel of three jurors: John Cheim, owner of Cheim and Read Gallery in New York; Yvonne Jacquette, nationally recognized artist; and Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. The jurors spent a weekend in September viewing slides and selecting the work for next year's Biennial. Of the 62 artists chosen, 16 have exhibited in previous Biennial exhibitions.

Stats:

948: Applicants (record)
62: Artists selected
93: Works
16: Artists in previous Biennials

Artists:

Shiva Ahmadi

Jeff Barnum

Tad Beck

Jeffery Becton (1998, 2003)

Melonie Bennett-Doucette (2001, 2003)

Susan Bickford

Holly Bishop

Astrid Bowlby (2003)

Katherine Bradford (2001, 2003)

Courtney Brecht

Allison C. Brown

Emily Brown

Eric Brown

Sam Cady (1998, 2003)

David Campbell (1998)

Diana Cherbuliez (2003)

Lauren Cherry

Donna Conlon

Katherine Doyle (2003)

Catherine Draper

Anda Dubinskis

Kyle Durrie

Adam Ekberg

Lauren Fensterstock

Joshua Ferry

Jessica Gandolf (2001)

Leah Gauthier

N. Sean Glover

Alisha Gould

Julee Holcombe

Vera Iliatova

Flash Jinno-Porter

Cassie Jones (2003)

Shin-Il Kim (2003)

Colleen Kinsella

Tim Lawton

Guo Liang

Clarence Lin

Graham Macbeth

James Mahoney

Wally Mason (2003)

Natasha Mayers

Joseph McVetty III

Elke Morris

Chris Patch

Scott Peterman (2001)

David Politzer

Stephen Quirk

Deborah Randall

Scott Reed

Amos Scully

Robert Shillady

Carol Sloane

Nicole Stiffle

Barbara Sullivan (2001, 2003)

Mary Alice Treworgy (1998, 2003)

Nancy Romines Walters

Sheri Warshauer

Jessica Williams

Richard A. Wilson (1998)

Hong Zhang

Michael Zheng