has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Recent Activities of and on amy stacey curtis
About me
amy stacey curtis (amystaceycurtis)
In 1998, Amy Stacey Curtis began an 18-year commitment to art-making, a project which would culminate through 9 solo-biennial exhibits from the year 2000 to the year 2016. In the end, Curtis will have installed 81 large-in-scope, interactive installation and new-media works in the vast mills of 8 or 9 Maine, USA towns. Each solo-biennial exhibit is a 22-month process, each exhibit exploring a different theme while requiring audience to perpetuate its multiple installations. "The audience completes my creative process. Without participants my work is incomplete." The Maine Arts Commission's 2005 Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Art, Curtis has committed to this work to convey that we are a part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects.
- Biography
Amy Stacey Curtis, an installation artist from Lyman, Maine, is the Maine Arts Commission's 2005 Individual Artist Fellow For Visual Art and the recipient of three Good Idea Grants.
IIn 1998, Amy Stacey Curtis began an 18-year commitment to art-making, a project which would culminate through 9 solo-biennial exhibits from the year 2000 to the year 2016. In the end, Curtis will have installed 81 large-in-scope, interactive installation and new-media works in the vast mills of 8 or 9 Maine, USA towns. Each solo-biennial exhibit is a 22-month process, each exhibit exploring a different theme while requiring audience to perpetuate its multiple installations. "The audience completes my creative process. Without participants my work is incomplete." The Maine Arts Commission's 2005 Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Art, Curtis has committed to this work to convey that we are a part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects.
Curtis received her BA in Studio Art from the University of Maine and her MA in Art and Psychology from Vermont College.- Exhibitions
Previous biennials: EXPERIENCE (2000), MOVEMENT (2002), CHANGE (2004), SOUND (2006), LIGHT (2008), and TIME (2010), taking place in Lewiston’s Bates Mill, Westbrook’s Old Sebago Shoe Mill, Brunswick’s Fort Andross, Waterville’s Lockwood Mill, Sanford’s Millstone Place, and Biddeford’s Pepperell Mill respectively. Future biennials: SPACE (October 6–26, 2012), MATTER (2014), and MEMORY (2016).
In 2018, a publication will document in-depth autobiographical context of Curtis’s process and each individual work, and will include essays which have been contributed by Maine’s art community, brief historical information about the mills used for these ambitious exhibits, plus full-color plates representative of the exhibits’ 81 works.
Some other places Curtis has exhibited installation: Bates College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Grothaus & Pearl (Kansas City), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), Forest Hills Educational Trust (Boston), Video In Studios (Vancouver), Revolving Museum (Lowell, Massachusetts), Montserrat College Of Art (Beverly, Massachusetts), Art Interactive (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (New Jersey), and Tainan University of Technology (Taiwan).
Also, Curtis generates drawings which support her biennial themes. This work is in many private collections as well as the collections of Bates College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Paper New England, and Portland Museum of Art.
