(Image: "Bayside" by Kris Engman)

(Orono, ME and Belfast, ME) Practicing artists Ed Nadeau and Kris Engman, colleagues at the University of Maine in Orono, are offering a series of workshops for the summer of 2010 under their newly formed collaborative organization Acme Art Alliance. With demand for these workshops so high, they will be held at two convenient locations, in Orono and Belfast.

The eight, fun, information-packed workshops are:
Do You Stipple?
The Lovely Digital Letter
For the Love of Nature
Pigment and H2O
A Perspective On Belfast
Oil and the Figure
Soft and Color-Full
Methods and Materials

Visit the Acme Art Alliance website for all the information on times, dates, fees and how to register.

(Image: "Crow on Tree" by Ed Nadeau)

About Ed Nadeau
Artist Ed Nadeau is a native of Maine whose paintings depict the land of the people of his home state in various incarnations. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1980 with his BFA in Painting and from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1986 with his MFA in painting.

Assistant Professor Nadeau teaches 2d design, painting and drawing at the University of Maine at Orono and has taught advanced courses in Figure Drawing, Nature Drawing, Materials and Techniques for Painters and the Senior Capstone. His area of research is in the history, manufacture and use of traditional artists materials such as substrates, gessoes, oil paints, temperas and waxes along with advancements of new technologies and materials that can be adapted for artists' uses.

His paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, the Park Center, the Maine Center of Contemporary Art in Rockport, the University of Maine in Orono, Whitney Art Works in Portland, and the Drawing Center, NYC. Currently Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine represents his paintings. His works are held in many private collections both nationally and internationally.

(Image: "Compost" by Ed Nadeau)

He is currently working on a series of portraits titled “Big Box Images: Portraits of the American Consumer”, which now include an extended array of portraits of people through all walks of life created through the interrelationship between the manipulation of computer imagery and traditional painting and drawing.

>link to Ed Nadeau's website

About Kerstin Engman
After working as a sculptor for 25 years and studying the figure, I set those endeavors aside for a while in order to acknowledge a longstanding interest in color and it’s complex behaviors. At age fifty, a set of new-found observations redirected all artistic energy into examinations which I pleasantly discovered had been dormant for decades - patterned geometries, repetitions, color harmonies, gridded landscapes, bas-relief.

What I find curious is how sculptural the work has remained even as its intent moves away from the formal concerns of 3-dimensional relationships. The materials - beeswax, wooden panels and tiles - have been combined with oil paint to create several different ongoing series of encaustic paintings. Because I live here, the Maine countryside, in all its seasons, contributes enormously to the color balances found in the paintings.

A historical canon of iconography, namely work by 14th-century Italian monastic painters - in particular Duccio di Buoninsegna, Simone Martini, Ambruogio Lorenzetti - and the Van Eyck brothers sponsored an investigation of methods and techniques after a visit to Italy in 1997. I’ve used the encaustic process in combination with gilding metal leaf - aluminum, copper, silver and gold in several of the series of recent years. The process is time-intensive and precious ( also part of the attraction ) which in this era of lessened attention to craft, feels appropriate to me. I believe this is about a respect for a skill which probably couldn’t have occurred at an earlier stage of my evolving work process.

>link to Kerstin Engman's website

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