(Belfast, ME) Terry Hire will be the guest speaker on Tuesday, February 7th at 6:30 pm in the Abbott Room of the Belfast Public Library for a lecture and slide show on historical design including Victorian, Formalism, Naturalism, into Edwardian gardens, and how those designs impact our gardens today. The event is co-sponsored by the Belfast Garden Club as part of its Garden Design Series.

Beginning on Friday, February 3rd, there will be an accompanying photo exhibit from Terry Hire's Botanicals series. The exhibit will run through the month. Hire is a fine art photographer (web), a certified interior designer, and a member of the Maine Photo Alliance. He is passionate about gardening and landscape design, and equally passionate about fine art photography.

Raised and educated in Tennessee, Terry moved to Belfast in 1982 and five years later opened Design Alternatives, an interior design company. His Bayside gardens have been featured in Gardens Maine Style: Act II by Sawyer-Fay and Karlin, Perennials Magazine, and also as the cover image of the 2012 Down East Calendar.

About his photographical work, Hire says, "The reductionist point of view seems to have always resonated with my own way of seeing the world. I see my environment through the lens, not as it is necessarily, but as it could be, as it is in my own mind's eye. I take to heart Ralph Waldo Emerson's line, 'Beauty is its own excuse for being.' I react to color, to the emotional charge of it; it compels me. I see in color, dream in color, and have to arrange the various parts and details I see in everyday life into a graphic and abstract composition, playing up the surface texture and repetition of line and pattern."

For more information on the February 7th lecture, please visit the Belfast Free Library website.

(Portland, ME) The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening, forming a massive network of cinematic events and becoming part of a powerful global community.

Currently, the festival takes place in more than 30 countries and 60 cities with over 140 screenings, showcasing a single program of the best short films often alongside live music, DJs and art. From London to Moscow, Melbourne to Jakarta, the screenings take place across a huge variety of spaces including, music halls, cinemas, theaters, galleries, clubs, warehouses.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the films start at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8 for the general public and $6 for SPACE members and students with ID. This event is appropriate for all ages. For more information, please visit the SPACE Gallery website.

>link to the Future Shorts Festival website

(Belfast, ME) On Sunday, January 22nd from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Fall Out Shelter Performance Space at Waterfall Arts, there will be the Come Sunday Jazz Jam, featuring a hot and steady rhythm section and musicians from around Waldo County and the mid-coast.

Sunday the 22nd is the fourth Sunday in a very special January of five Sundays. This Come Sunday Jam honors this special “month of Sundays” by happening on the very special fourth of five rather than the oh-so-normal third-of-four.

Still playing jazz standards and favorites, new requests and old chestnuts, musicians of all ages and levels who love to play and improvise are welcome to bring their instruments and voices.

The rhythm section—guitar, piano, bass and drums—starts out with a short warm-up concert, and then the jam commences featuring the work of vocalists, saxophonists, trumpet, trombone, guitar.

Jazz is an evolving art that needs honing on all levels, and both new and old players are encouraged to come out and ride the cool waves.

Refreshments and light eats will be available for those attending. A donation of $5 is requested for those who come to listen. Performing musicians attend free.

Come, listen, play and sing at the Waterfall Arts Come Sunday Jazz Jam!

For more information, please call Waterfall Arts at 207 338-2222 or visit www.waterfallarts.org. Waterfall Arts is located at 256 High Street in Belfast.

Shannon Hunter Thibodeau
8 Marion Street Portland, ME 04101
sthibo21@gmail.com | (603) 667-7568

OBJECTIVE: To serve as a leader in a creative work environment where my skills are valued and I am challenged to broaden my experience.

EDUCATION: B.A. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (2008)

QUALIFICATIONS:

∙Skillful and productive in time-restricting situations
∙Knowledgeable in Photoshop CS5, In Design, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Excel
∙Works effectively under pressure
∙Effective self-manager and team player; easy to work with and personable enthusiastic learner; seeking opportunities to expand professional knowledge and improve skills

EMPLOYMENT:
2011 - Cardigan Mountain School Canaan, NH
- Drawing/art teacher, dorm parent, and sailing coach
2011 - The Olivarian School Pike, NH
- Photography teacher
2011 - American Heart Association and Stroke Association
- High technical problem shooting for a low light situation
2009 - Present - New Hampshire Home Magazine
- Published photographs, contributing photographer, assistant to photo editor
2009 - Present - Alpina Sports USA, Hanover, NH
- Staff and lead photographer for distributor catalogue, ski clothing, equipment and media stock
- Pre and post-production, on location action, studio product, and prep for web and catalogue with use of dynamic imaging
- Salt Lake City Ski Trade Expo; photographed outdoor retailer, trade demo

ASSISTING WORK:
2009 - Present - New Hampshire Home Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine, Concord NH
- Time and organization management of photo shoots
- Style and prepare architectural spaces for professional photographs
- Assistant photographer in challenging lighting situations; portraiture to interior/exterior architectural shots
- Styling and art direction
2007-2008 Savannah College of Art and Design, Photography Department, Savannah and Atlanta, GA
- Set-up and break down of lighting
- Assisted with management of school's archival documents
- Retouching all photographs in preparation for publication, using Light Room and Adobe Photoshop
2007 Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France visiting photographer, David Hume Kennerly, former White House Photographer to President Gerald Ford
- Equipment and location assistance
- On location shoot of Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
2007 Savannah College of Art and Design, Student Curator for Vernasage exhibition, Lacoste, France
- Measuring and preparation of display
- Management of students assigned spaces and types of work displayed
- Management of records from exhibition and student payments