Jean Maginnis founded the Maine Center for Creativity (MCC) to promote and guide partnerships between the arts and industry. “These sometimes unexpected partnerships support innovative approaches to economic and community development, which can be so important to Maine’s overall economic vitality and cultural vibrancy,” says Maginnis. Along Route 295 is her most
In 2011 Tanja Hollander set out on a journey to visit her 626 Facebook friends in their homes. Hollander set up in-person meetings, mostly in living rooms, and traveled all over the country and internationally to photograph her “friends.” Her now well-known series “Are you really my friend?”
Paul Coulombe was born in Lewiston, and that’s where he inherited his father’s liquor business, White Rock Distilleries. Coulombe’s business grew from three employees to over 200 employees and became one of the 25 largest businesses in Maine in 2012 with revenues that exceeded 200 million dollars per year. When
Stuart Kestenbaum has been the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts for 27 years. The Deer Isle-based school began in 1950 as a place to teach fine craftsmanship and carry out research and development with crafts. Today students of
Bill Williamson is Maine state president and senior client manager of global commercial banking at Bank of America. While Bank of America is a national company, the Maine branch is getting involved at the community level, and as a Maine
Mary Bonauto has worked as the civil rights project director at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders for 25 years, where she is dedicated to providing equal rights for the LGBT population and HIV patients. “I believe in the Constitution’s promises of equality and liberty for all, and
Paul Andrew Mayewski is the director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine in Orono. For more than four decades, his research has involved traveling to Antarctica (55 times) and also to the Arctic, Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, Tierra del Fuego, and the Andes with students and
Darron Collins is an alumnus of College of the Atlantic and is now the school’s president. The college offers one degree— human ecology—but students apply that perspective to a wide variety of interests across the humanities, the environmental sciences, and arts. An important part of the school’s pedagogy is
To Louise Rosen film is the powerful medium through which artists present ideas and topics both controversial and entertaining. She works to bring audiences new experiences through movies and to enhance professional development opportunities for emerging and established media makers.
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