In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
2018’s Painter and Poet: The Art of Ashley Bryan was the first major art museum exhibition in Maine for the award-winning 95-year-old artist and Little Cranberry Island resident, a pioneer of African and African American representation in the children's book medium, who has published more than 50 titles since his first collection of poems in 1967.
Read MoreThe Theater Ensemble of Color’s Artistic Director René Goddess Johnson and Nick Schroeder, Affiliate Producer, share insights into their organization and how they planned for the production of Ashley Bryan’s Beautiful Blackbird.
Read More“To me, it’s community. It has nothing to do with what you call it. As long as you have what you call community, that’s always what I’m after, how you create community wherever you go. I think that’s the most important thing—that you feel that you have that outreach to others and that in some way, each one affects the lives of the others, and in very direct ways when needed. That’s the way it was on these islands.”
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