Christine J. Higgins

Address: P.O. Box 396, Readfield, Maine 04355

Telephone: (207) 685- 3029

Email: chiggins@megalink.net

Education:

Lesley College, Cambridge, Mass., M.Ed. Integrated Arts, 2001

Ohio State University, Columbus. Three week intensive training for Hometrainers, 1972

Ohio University, Athens, 12 credits, special education, 1972-1973.

Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. B.A. Art, 1967-1971

Recent Employment:

Art Teacher, Dept. Head, District Art Coordinator, Augusta, Me. Schools, 1998 –2009

(retired)

Professional Activities:

Participant: printmaking, Haystack School of Crafts, Eileen Foti, Master Printmaker,

Rutgers, and Montclair StateUniversity, August 2008

Participant: papermaking, Haystack School of Crafts, Sue Gosin, Founder Dieu Donne,

NYC, and Mina Takahashi, Editor, Handpapermaking, July/Aug. 2007

Participant: cast paper sculpture workshop, Haystack School of Crafts,

Lynn Sures, Artist, Corcoran School of Art Professor, June, 2004

Participant: papermaking, Haystack School of Crafts, Karen Stahlecker, Artist, July, 2003

Participant: papermaking, Haystack School of Crafts, Marilyn Sward, Chicago Center for

Papermaking, July 1997

Exhibitions:

Upcoming: October one person - prints and handmade paper panels, Cerulean Gallery

“Hubcap Heaven”, Cerulean Gallery, Hallowell, Sept. 2009, Group Exhibition

“Nature Abstracted, Works in Mixed Media”, Stadler Gallery, Kingfield, Me. July-August, 2009, Two person exhibition

“Animal Homes”, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, Me. May – Oct. 2009, Group Exhibition Invitational

“Cerulean Collective 2009”, Cerulean Gallery, Hallowell, Me. March/April 2009, Group Exhibition

“On Our Own Time” Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Me., Art Teachers Exhibition, Feb./March, 2009

“Cerulean Collective” Cerulean Gallery, Hallowell, Me., Group Exhibition, Jan. 2008

“Invitational Show 11”, Cerulean Gallery, Hallowell, Me., Group Exhibition, Dec. 2007

“Grand Opening” Cerulean Gallery, Hallowell, Me., Group Exhibition, Nov. 2007

“Wood One”, University of Maine, Farmington, Group Exhibition, August – Sept. 2007

Kennebec Valley Art Association Members Exhibition, July 2007

“12th Annual Juried Art Exhibit”, KVAA, Hallowell, Me., 2 monotype prints accepted,

Jurors: Peter Precourt, Assistant Professor of Art, UMA, Susan Brown Stoddard, Professor of Art, UMA, May, 2007

“Decent Exposures”, group ceramic sculpture show, Harlow Gallery, Augusta, Me. 2006

“Art Walk”, pulp paintings and ceramics, Patina’s Salon, Gardiner, Me., 2006

“Pulp Fiction”, group papermaking show, Paper Circle Gallery, Nelsonville, Ohio,

March, 2005