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.
This exhibition is a blockbuster because it sets the Haystack story in the context of both mid-century American art and mid-century American life, and how the two intersected around a not-quite Utopian lifestyle vision that encouraged invention, creativity and a free exchange of ideas.
Read MoreThis exhibits is one of the first major museum shows focusing solely on this school, recharacterizing the narrative of midcentury art and craft in America.
Read MoreIt’s an exhibit that will be worthy of a road trip to Portland, the hipster capital of Maine, famed for its food scene, vitality and its artistic sensibility.
Read MoreWith seminal works of art by leaders of the midcentury studio craft movement, the exhibition asserts Haystacks central role in national debates about the boundaries between art, craft, and design.
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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