Artifact
| Description: |
Chris Beneman lives and works in the Portland area. She originally came to Maine to attend Bates College and never left. Though she studied and practiced printmaking and painting, for many years her main focus was ceramics. A workshop with founding Peregrine Press member Alice Spencer at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts cemented the shift to printmaking. She has been a member of Peregrine Press since 2005.Her work has been widely exhibited, most recently at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland. She has been included in recent exhibitions at the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH, Washington Printmakers, Washington DC and the Center for Book Arts in NYC. In Maine she has shown at The Barn Gallery, The UNE Art Gallery, Lewis Gallery in the Portland Public Library, Art House Gallery, Space Gallery and the Denmark Center for the Arts, among others. (From The Peregrine Press website)Collagraph, chine colle. Edition of Five. artifact [ahr-tuh-fakt]from Latin phrase art factum, from ars skill + facere to make1. any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.2. a handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as a shard of pottery, characteristic of an earlier time, an object found at an archaeological excavation.Somedays I have hope for kindness, compassion and respect. To debate and disagree, without anger, violence and destruction. Al-Mutanabbi Street has been rebuilt. Other days I struggle to feel any optimism for all the Al-Mutanabbi Streets of the world. What will the future hold? What will we leave behind? |
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| Origin: | 2015 |
| Created By: |
Beneman, Chris |
| Contributor(s): |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1195 |
| Collection: |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
artists book art bookworks letterpress printing, prints |
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