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Detail from sketchbook, Janwillem van de Wetering

The latest Kate Cheney Chappel ’83 Center for Book Arts at USM exhibition, “Janwillem van de Wetering: Artist’s Books, Sketchbooks, Trade Books, and Small Sculpture,” will be on display from Friday, January 15 through Sunday, February 28 in the UNUM Great Reading Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library, Portland.  This free exhibit is open during library hours, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., Sundays; 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m., Mondays-Thursdays; 7:45 a.m.-8 p.m., Fridays; and 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturdays. On Sunday, February 14, hours are 2-10 p.m.  A reception and lecture, “Janwillem van de Wetering: The Creative Spirit,” by author Carl Little will take place from 4-6 p.m., Tuesday, January 26, in the University Events Room of the Glickman Family Library.  For more information, contact Rebecca Goodale, at 228-8014.

Janwillem van de Wetering was an award-winning author and artist who was born in the Netherlands and became a longtime resident of Surrey, Maine.  He wrote detective novels set in Amsterdam, a memoir of living in a Kyoto monastery and a series children’s books about a downeast porcupine.  Carl Little is the author of many art books as well as “Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems,” who profiled van de Wetering in a 1994 Down East magazine.

USM alumna Kate Cheney Chappell (Class of ‘83) professional artist, and co-founder of Tom’s of Maine, established USM’s Center for Book Arts in 2008. The Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts at USM celebrates the innovative and engaging nature of book arts through lectures and workshops by national and regional book artists, and through exhibits of artists’ books.  The Center’s program coordinator is Maine artist and member of USM’s Art Department faculty Rebecca Goodale.

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Detail from sketchbook, Janwillem van de Wetering

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CONTACT:
Rachel Talbot Ross
(207) 253-5074 NAACP office
(207) 210-1052 cell
naacpportland@gmail.com
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The NAACP Portland Branch offered community members a chance to participate in “Reading, Writing and the Engaged Community,” a series of reading and writing workshops focused on social justice.  Held in association with the USM Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing MFA program, adult writers of all levels and styles were invited to participate in instructive workshops that combine reading and discussion of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications and speeches. Participants then wrote their own reflections on the readings, coached by Stonecoast students and alumni.  The written work may take the form of a journal entry, short story, poem, play, speech, sermon or narrative statement which will be presented to the public 7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 15 at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport.

The media is invited to join the group during their last workshop on
Saturday, January 2.

What: “Reading, Writing and the Engaged Community” – Community writing workshop celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led by USM Stonecoast MFA students and alumni.

Time/Date: 9 a.m.-11:30 AM, Saturday, January 2.

Location:  Wishcamper Center, USM’s Portland campus.

In addition to this series, “Why King Matters Now,” a writing program for young people was developed to explore the meaning of King’s legacy today and to help participants improve their writing skills. Workshops took place in December at community centers in Kennedy Park, Parkside, Riverton and Sagamore Village.  This series is presented in association with Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance, Portland Housing Authority, The Telling Room, and USM’s Office of Community Engagement.

The University of Southern Maine (USM) offers its 10,000 plus students more than 115 areas of undergraduate and graduate study. USM’s location in southern Maine, a region cited as one of the most liveable in the country, offers a range of educational, cultural and recreational opportunities.