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    Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is a private art school in Portland, Maine. Founded in 1882, Maine College of Art & Design is the oldest arts educational...
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    The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) is a non-profit consortium of art and design schools in the United States and Canada...
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    Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, it was renamed...
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  • Vivian Beer (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    of metal furniture. Beer was born in 1997 in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2000, Beer received a bachelor's degree in sculpture from the Maine College of Art...
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  • Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (category Maine College of Art & Design)
    Originally an independent school, since 2016 it has been part of the Maine College of Art. Salt focuses on educating and promoting responsible storytelling...
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  • Gina Adams (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    earned a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from the University of Kansas. According to her website, she studied visual art, curatorial practice...
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  • Lucinda Bliss (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    Professor at Colby College, and teaching at the Maine College of Art, the University of Southern Maine, and with the Crit Lab. She has participated in...
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    Granville Carter (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    1920, in Augusta, Maine. His formal art training began in 1944 under Alexander Bower at the Portland School for Fine and Applied Art. This was followed...
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    Catherine D'Ignazio (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    of Fine Arts (MFA) in studio art, design and theory from Maine College of Art and a Master of Science (M.S.) in media arts and sciences from MIT in 2014...
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    two colleges and two divisions: the College of Art, Media & Design; the College of Performing Arts; the Division of Liberal Arts; and the Division of Continuing...
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    Al Carbee (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    Carbee was born in Portland, Maine on February 10, 1914. After studying at the Portland School of Fine and Applied Art for two years, he moved to Boston...
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  • Jonathan Aldrich (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    the Maine College of Art. Aldrich grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and spent every August at the home of his grandparents in Tenants Harbor, Maine. His...
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  • Christopher Willard (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    artist. Born in Bangor, Maine, Willard was raised in Vermont. He attended the Portland School of Art, renamed the Maine College of Art, and completed his education...
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    building went unused from 1978 to 1983, when it was purchased by the Maine College of Art (MECA). MECA utilized the space for studio space, dark rooms, as...
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  • Aaron T Stephan (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    He holds a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase (1996) and an MFA from Maine College of Art (2002). He also studied at Amsterdamse Hogeschool...
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    Westbrook College was a liberal arts college in Portland, Maine, founded 1831 as Westbrook Seminary in Westbrook, Maine. It closed in 1996 and merged...
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    Ruth Leonela Buentello (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    the art of Nikki de Saint Phalle. In 2021, Buentello graduated with a Master in Fine Art degree in painting from the Maine College of Art & Design. In...
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  • Amelia Jones (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    Montreal and has held visiting professorships at Maine College of Art, Texas Christian University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University...
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  • University of Maine (UMaine) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is...
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  • Ahmed Alsoudani (category Maine College of Art & Design alumni)
    received his MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art in 2008, and also holds a BFA from Maine College of Art. His work was exhibited in the Iraq Pavilion...
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  • Lauren Fensterstock (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    of Design (RISD) in the graduate Jewelry + Metalsmithing department. Fensterstock has held previous teaching appointments at the Maine College of Art...
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  • 123527°N 67.835414°W / 46.123527; -67.835414 Ricker College was a small college located in Houlton, Maine, United States. It opened in 1848 (176 years ago) (1848)...
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  • Bliss College was an educational institution in Lewiston, Maine. It was founded in 1897 (127 years ago) (1897) as a business college and later added an...
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    Everett Chambers (category Maine College of Art & Design)
    Downtown Portland, Maine. Built in 1902 to a design by local architect Frederick Tompson, it is an important surviving example of a lodging house (in...
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    the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It now houses the primary campus facilities of the Maine College of Art & Design. The Porteous, Mitchell...
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  • Agnes Bushell (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    and writing at Maine College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of Southern Maine, and lives in Portland, Maine with her husband...
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    Street Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building (home of the Maine College of Art & Design), 522–528 Congress Street Asa Hanson Block, 548–550 Congress...
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  • constituent colleges, the Art Institute of Boston and Lesley College, were renamed College of Art and Design and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, respectively;...
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  • 798858°W / 43.465934; -70.798858 Nasson College was a private four-year accredited liberal arts college in Springvale, Maine, United States, that was established...
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    Joan Backes (category Maine College of Art & Design faculty)
    Scotia College of Art and Design, Maine College of Art Graduate Program, Rhode Island School of Design, The Kansas City Art Institute, and Northwestern...
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