Artist Talk -- Tod Seelie-- October 20th, 8pm-- FREE

at: The Bakery : 90 Bridge Street #265, Westbrook Maine

Free

For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs
by Julia Margaret Cameron
@ the Portland Museum of Art
July 4, 2009 - September 7, 2009

Portland Museum of Art
Saturday July 11th
3pm-4pm
FREE

Kindred Spirits- An Afternoon with Joyce Tenneson

SALON- Artist Talk - Siri Kaur - July 14th 8pm FREE


You may remember this mysterious image of Superman in a parking garage as the photograph chosen to advertise Photo A Go-Go 2007. You can find out the story behind this image and the entire series of impersonators called Alter Ego at:

the Bakery on Tuesday night, July 14th– 8pm.

Bakery Artist-in-Residence, Siri Kaur, who is currently an adjunct lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, will be giving a talk about her portraits and other work.

The event is free.

Don’t miss it!

Torregrossa's presentation at the Bakery Salon

At last night's Bakery salon, we were treated to a stunning presentation of Kirk Torregrossa's photography from a documentary project that he did while in Vietnam. Torregrossa travelled to Vietnam in early 2009 for 11 weeks to accompany the sculptor Keisha Luce, who is producing a project entitled "Sum and Parts." Casting "documentary sculpture" from real life, Luce worked with Vietnamese people born with deformities due to exposure to the dioxin in Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War. In Vietnam Torregrossa met and photographed many people living with the continuing effects of Agent Orange.

The photographs that Torregrossa presented were alternately beautiful, intense, lively and shocking. The evening began with Jenny, Jessica, and Tonee looking closely at Kirk's black and white contact sheets, to pick their faves. the evening proceeded with Kirk giving a slide show on the digital projector, and explaining the project and his approach, and it ended with a discussion about the project and the photography. Kirk is now in the process of editing and printing the photographs, and will produce a photographic component for an exhibition with Keisha Luce, which will be shown at Dartmouth College, and may be exhibited in Portland at the Salt Center for Documentary Studies, of which he is an alum.

Thanks Kirk for showing us this strong body of work.

Those in attendance were Jenny Gold, Jessica Williams, Tanja Hollander, Tonee Harbert, and two of Kirk's friends Noah and Laura.

To see more about the project, visit www.sumandparts.com or www.kirktorregrossa.com

SALON tonight- June 23rd, 7pm
Artist Talk
Kirk Torregrossa

Free @ The Bakery
90 Bridge Street #265
Westbrook, ME