Artist Talk with Amy Stacey Curtis

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  • Aug 26, 2016

On Friday evening, August 26th at 7:00 p.m. in LPL’s Callahan Hall, Maine installation artist Amy Stacey Curtis will be discussing her latest work, MEMORY, which will be opening in the Bates Mill Complex on September 17th of this year. Her Library presentation is being co-sponsored by LA Arts and Art Walk Lewiston Auburn and is free and open to the public. (The August Art Walk will also be taking place downtown this same evening from 5 to 8 p.m.

In 1998, Amy Stacey Curtis (b. 1970, Beverly, Massachusetts) began what would be an 18-year commitment to interactive installation art: 9 solo-biennial exhibits from 2000 to 2016. In the end, Curtis will have installed 81 large-in-scope, interactive works throughout 9 vast mills of 8 Maine towns, her long intention to mount her last biennial in the town that hosted her first. Each solo-biennial exhibit is a 22-month process, each exploring a different theme while inviting audience to perpetuate its multiple installations.

MEMORY, Amy Stacey Curtis’s 9th and final solo biennial (September 17–October 28, 2016), is 9 large-in-scope works throughout ~30,000 square feet of Lewiston, Maine’s Bates Mill Complex. Part of Curtis’ 22-month process is that she clears, cleans, and in some cases, brings up to code each host town’s mill space, each exhibit re-energizing and drawing much needed attention to the abandoned site.

Curtis is also trying to spark a new grant for Maine artists with donations toward her forthcoming book, 9 SOLO BIENNIALS. Help make the Forward Fund go by visiting and sharing this video: https://youtu.be/iXbBIx9P1Lw

For more information on Curtis’ work, visit her website at www.amystaceycurtis.com  For details on the Aug. 26th event, contact LPL’s Adult/Teen Services Department at 513-3135 or via email at LPLReference@gmail.com