BELFAST — Waterfall Arts is set to host its January Artists After Hours talk with Marcie Jan Bronstein at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, at 256 High St.
“Oasis, laboratory, playground: An artist’s studio is the beginning, middle and end of a deep, strong, gratifying practice” will be the topic.
Bronstein will share ideas for creating a vital, inspiring studio practice, even in challenging circumstances. She’ll also share how this dynamic studio practice helped generate the Branching Out program at Waterfall Arts, according to a news release from Katherine Devereux of the art center.
A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology and Hampshire College, Bronstein’s ceramics, painting, and photography have been exhibited, published, collected and commissioned for nearly 40 years. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in the suburbs, imagination and creativity were an early lifeline. But it was in the years of living in Italy after college, and wandering the streets of Europe with a camera where core ideas about art-making began to take shape. With inspiration from early art heroes (Cartier Bresson, Paul Klee, Karel Appel), a decade of darkroom-based, hand-painted photography followed.
In 2000, she began a 15-year dive into the realm of negative imagery to evoke memory and the passage of time. This work is collected in the monograph “Illuminating the Negative: Fifteen Years of Photographs.” From 2011-14 she was lead art educator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and creator of the ArtLab For All Ages program. From 2014-2018 she worked for Celebrity Cruises, teaching watercolor painting aboard ships around the world.
In 2021, she turned toward ceramics full-time and in the next summer was selected for a residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts to explore painterly approaches to working with clay. In the winters of 2023 and 2024 Bronstein was in residence at Momento Ceramics in Locarno, Switzerland. Last fall, her Open Studio was part of the Maine Craft Weekend tour.
This inventory of makers is free and open to all 18 and older.
For more information, email kathereine@waterfallarts.org or call 207-338-2222.
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