Workshop
William Pope.L
WORKSHOP-March 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
Artist William Pope.L is a performance artist best known for his series of crawls, the most ambitious being The Great White Way, a five-year project in which he crawled on his hands and knees from the Statue of Liberty to the Bronx. His multidisciplinary art practice often challenges and confronts constructions of race. He has lived in Lewiston for the last 18 years and teaches at Bates College.
Brooklin Boatyard
WORKSHOP-Jan/Feb 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
The yard specializes in custom design, building, and restoration. It—along with the town’s eight other boatyards and WoodenBoat Magazine—has transformed Brooklin into an epicenter of wooden boatbuilding.
David Wolfe
WORKSHOP-Nov/Dec 2009
Photograph by Meggan Gould
David Wolfe prints books, portfolios, and stationery by hand. His 2,000-square-foot studio, inside a former bakery on Pleasant Street, is filled with composition machines, paper cutters, racks of fonts, a Washington hand press, a Golding and Heidelberg letterpress, and two Vandercook proofing presses.
Sea Bags
WORKSHOP-October 2009
Photograph by Meggan Gould
At Sea Bags on Custom House Wharf, Hannah Kubiak and Beth Shissler turn old sails into tote bags, duffels, boat bags, wine totes, messenger bags, shaving kits, and change purses.
Gideon Bok
WORKSHOP-September 2009
Photograph by Meggan Gould
Gideon Bok paints his studios and whatever happens to be in them. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1996, worked as a Guggenheim fellow in 2004, and currently lives and farms in Camden.
