USM Art Gallery November Events Include a Talk by Poet Carl Little and USM’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Carl Little, Visiting Scholar in the Lecture Series of the Visual Arts, photograph by Lincoln Benedict
* USM’s Gorham Art Gallery will host the Art Talk, “Exploring the Ekphrastic: The Art-Poetry Connection,” by poet and art writer Carl Little. This free talk will take place at 1 p.m., Friday, November 12 in the Burnham Lounge of Robie Andrews Hall on USM’s Gorham campus. For more information, call the Art Gallery at 780-5008.
Little is USM’s visiting scholar in the Lecture Series of the Visual Arts. He is the director of communications and marketing of the Maine Community Foundation and is the former director of the College of the Atlantic’s Ethel H. Blum Gallery. Little is a poet, critic and author of many art books, including “The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent” and “The Art of Dahlov Ipcar.” He also writes for regional and national publications including Art New England and Art in America. He was presented with the Acadia Arts Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the arts on Mount Desert Island where he lives and writes.
