UMF Emery Community Arts Center announces dual exhibits to wrap-up the summer season

FARMINGTON, ME  (August 3, 2022)—The University of Maine at Farmington Emery Community Arts Center announces two new exhibits to wrap up the summer season.

They include a creative new exhibit, “Collaboration: The Power of Two,” featuring the one-of-a-kind art of Meredith Mustard and Judy (Foss) Tollefson and “New Works” by photographer Fred Dearnley.

“Collaboration: The Power of Two” will be on display in Emery’s Flex Gallery from Aug. 12 – Sept. 16, 2022. “New Works” will be on display in Emery’s lobby spaces from Aug. 29 – Oct. 14. A joint public reception will be held Sept. 8, 5-7 p.m. The exhibits are free and open to the public.

Collaboration: The Power of Two is an exhibit of analog and digital collage created with alternative printmaking processes, stencils, transfers and botanicals. The exhibition also includes wearable art designed with hand-printed fabric.

Botanicals, mono print on fabric; Meredith MustardBotanicals, mono print on fabric; Meredith Mustard


Tollefson and Mustard have been working collaboratively for more than 40 years. They discovered this connection in Berkeley, California, when they joined forces in the Calligraphy Studio of Moss Foss & Mustard. They opened a channel of creativity that inspired and delighted. What these two imaged together eventually became a partnership called Two Imagine Studios.

Calendar Page, digital collage and design: Judy (Foss) Tollefson; analogue collage: Meredith MustardCalendar Page, digital collage and design: Judy (Foss) Tollefson; analogue collage: Meredith Mustard


Circumstances have brought them to live on the same land—neighbors in Farmington—sharing a studio through the Pandemic.

This exhibition traces some of the treads of their story, and includes calendars and cards, prints on paper and fabric, the wearable art and other elements that contributed to their shared vision. Represented in the exhibition are some early works and a body of current work.

Aquarium; Fred Dearnley

Aquarium; Fred Dearnley


Dearnley’s photography is a combination of art and science. He originally worked as a marine biologist, with his early photographic work documenting the amazing designs of the microscopic organisms he studied. Later he worked as a photographer in the Center for Visual Studies at Unity College where he found teaching photography helped him visualize photography as an artform. Over the past few years, he has been experimenting with the interaction of human activity/design with the environment and the realization that a photograph is an idea of what was seen and felt at the time, an image of an ephemeral event.

The Emery Arts Center gallery is located on Academy St. (between Main St. and High St.) in downtown Farmington. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m.-3p.m. Please check Emery’s website for holiday closures at https://wpsites.maine.edu/emerycommunityartscenter/

More on the UMF Emery Community Arts Center

The Emery Community Arts Center is an innovative, experimental venue for the arts in Western Maine. It features an exciting 2,500-square-foot, 109-seat multipurpose performance space with dynamic vertical foldaway doors that open onto an outdoor performance area and a 1,600-square-foot Flex-Space gallery for traditional exhibits, new media and performance art. A dramatic interior corridor offers additional exhibition space and connects the center with the UMF Alumni Theater.

For more information contact Ann Bartges, director of UMF Emery Community Arts Center at ann.bartges@maine.edu or 207-778-7461.


EDITOR’S NOTE:

Image: https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2022/08/RP212-072A.jpg
Photo Caption: Botanicals, mono print on fabric; Meredith Mustard
Photo Credit: Submitted Image

Image: https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2022/08/RP212-072B.jpg
Photo Caption: Calendar Page, digital collage and design: Judy (Foss) Tollefson; analogue collage: Meredith Mustard
Photo Credit: Submitted Image

Image: https://www.umf.maine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/2022/08/RP212-072C-scaled.jpg
Photo Caption: Aquarium; Fred Dearnley
Photo Credit: Submitted Image

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