___March 2012
ARTIST'S RESIDENCY:
Camden Rockport Elementary School
Fotoplay, altered photographs and concrete poetry
March 2012
BOOK PUBLICATION:
Fotoplay! : The Book
The first of its kind photo-based prompt book, Fotoplay! will be available in select bookstores, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Amazon, and through the blog This Playground: inthisplayground.com
January 2012
PROJECTS:
December Fotoplay; Fotoplay Invitational
January - December 2012
WORKSHOPS, ArtLab ArtCamp, ArtLab Studio:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children and adults at the ArtLab throughout the year:
the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine • 236-2875
November 7, 2011
NEW GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Karis Gallery, Hilton Head, S.C. {link coming soon!}
opening reception November 7 : for more information : 843-384-8803
October 2011
NEW BLOG:
It's here! : This Playground : art • photography • children's art • Fotoplay
October - December 2011
WORKSHOPS:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children and adults at the ArtLab:
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine • 236-2875
September 2011
INSTALLATION : (photos!)
City Drawers, Main Street, Belfast: created with the help of the children at the Starrett Children's Center.
August 2011
COMMISSIONED / LICENSED:
To create art for 1,500 guest rooms in a newly renovated resort hotel in Atlantic City, The Borgata.
July 2011
NEW BOOK PROJECT COMPLETED:
fotoplay!:
A new book series which grew out of projects I created for my students, focusing on my interest in using the photographic image as a prompt, and as an invitation for collaboration. fotoplay! is a hybrid doodle/coloring book, which is the first of its kind in its use of photographs and fragments of photographs as prompts for drawing. *EMAIL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION, or to receive my 75 page PDF.
July 2011
WORK IN AUCTION: {SOLD!}
Support the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (cmcanow.org) and buy one of my photographs at the auction!
Exhibition: July 16-30 • Auction and dinner: July 31, Point Lookout, Northport
click here for more info
June 2011
WALL MURAL:
53" x 116" wall mural, using hand-painted images, commissioned for new store: City Drawers, in Belfast, Maine
Summer 2011
WORKSHOPS:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children at the ArtLab of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art:
download pdf here
Winter 2010 - Spring 2011
EXTENDED WORKSHOP : Starrett Children's Center
Received a grant to work with the children at the center, twice a week, 2010-2011
"Yes is a World: Drawing & Painting on photographs and more..."
November 2010
GRAPHIC DESIGN: created complete package design for John Duffy's latest CD, booklet, label, and inlay
www.albanyrecords.com
October 2010
EXHIBITION: "Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later" Invitational exhibition curated by Bruce Brown
CMCA, 162 Russell Avenue, Rockport Maine, 207-236-2875
October 2 - December 2
August 2010
EXHIBITION: "Harold Hangs Ten" Harold Garde curates works from ten artists
Mulford Collectors Gallery, 313 Main Street, Rockland Maine, 207-594-4775
August 6 - September 1
April 2010
EXHIBITION: "CAPTURE : 50 PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS"
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, hosted by Maine Home & Design Magazine
April 2 , 5:00-7 pm: Opening reception
190 US Route One, Falmouth, Maine 207-781-2620
WORKSHOP: Shake Up Your Art : April 3, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Created and facilitated by MJB • Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
A fast-paced workshop for artists, aspiring artists, and above all, those who wish to experience new ways of opening up the creative floodgates. Working with pencil, paint, and collage, we'll create work alone as well as collaboratively. We'll leave our inhibitions at the door, and we'll discover deep wells of creativity, inventiveness, and playfulness. This workshop was inspired by the teachings of Paul Klee and Natalie Goldberg and incorporates yogic principles of centering and Buddhist notions of non-attachment.
November 2009
BOOK PUBLICATION:
Illuminating the Negative: Nine Years of Photographs
A collection of hand-colored photographs created between 2000 and 2009, inspired by the beauty and mystery of the photographic negative. Includes 46 images and a conversation between MJB and curator Suzette McAvoy.
October 2009
EXHIBITION :
DUETTO: One-of-a-kind lamps created from vintage, used, or salvaged lamps & shades.
A collaboration with ALAN FISHMAN
Mulford Gallery, 313 Main Street, Rockland, Maine (207) 594-4775
WORKSHOP : Shake Up Your Art : October 24, 9:30-12:30
Created and facilitated by MJB.
A fast-paced workshop for artists, aspiring artists, and above all, those who wish to experience new ways of opening up the creative floodgates. Working with pencil, paint, and collage, in both 2 and 3 dimensions, we'll create work alone as well as collaboratively. We'll leave our inhibitions at the door, and we'll discover deep wells of creativity, inventiveness, and playfulness. This workshop was inspired by the teachings of Paul Klee and Natalie Goldberg and incorporates yogic principles of centering and Buddhist notions of non-attachment.
Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
September 2009
FEATURED:
My Percent-For-Art commission for the Captain Albert Stevens School here on this blog
September 2009
EXHIBITION:
"DUETTO" One-of-a-kind lamps created from vintage, used, or salvaged lamps & shades.
A collaboration with ALAN FISHMAN
Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, 207-563-7299
May 2009
EXHIBITION:
"DUETTO" + a selection of MJB photographs
Carver Hill Gallery, 264 Meadow Street, Rockport, ME, 04856, 207-236-0745
April 2009
BOOK PUBLICATION : Best Seat in the House : Cats in Their Windows
May 2008
TELEVISION INTERVIEW : May 9
INTERVIEW ON "207": NBC'S WCSH IN PORTLAND, ME
April 2008
BOOK PUBLICATION : I'll Wait in the Car : Dogs Along for the Ride
December 2007
EXHIBITION: BRANCHING OUT : Rivers and Streams
20 artists collaborate with 20 younger artists
"The Making of a River" : a photo collage/installation created in collaboration with Noah, 14 years old.
December 5, 6:30-9 pm: Opening reception
Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
EXHIBITION:
recent works
ELAN FINE ARTS, 86 Pascal Ave, Rockport, Maine
April 2007
EXHIBITION:
April 28- July 21: "ALTERED NATURE"
invitational photography exhibition curated by Britta Konau
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART, Rockport, Maine
January 2007
LECTURE:
January 22 , 7 pm: "AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY":
Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine, 207-338-2222
A visual autobiography, comprised of photographs, paintings, sketchbook pages, and other ephemera. Marcie's presentation will focus on the forces - family, teachers, friends, other artists and their works - that have inspired, informed, and profoundly affected both her aesthetic and her drive to create. "An Artist's Journey" reflects a long and winding journey inward, propelled, in part, by a long and winding journey outward, from Baltimore, Maryland through Delaware; New York City; Amherst, Massachusetts; San Francisco; Florence, Italy; much of Western Europe; Belfast, Maine, and beyond...
December 2006
EXHIBITION: BRANCHING OUT : TREES
10 artists collaborate with 10 younger artists
{the Branching Out program was created by MJB in collaboration with Meredith Alex}
"Winter Lights": a sculptural/electrical work created in collaboration with Emma, 12 years old.
December 9, 2-4 pm: Opening reception Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
EXHIBITION:
December 1, 5-7 pm: Opening reception
ELAN FINE ARTS, 86 Pascal Ave, Rockport, Maine
a selection of nine current and past works
exhibition through December 22
July 2006
EXHIBITION:
Solo Online Exhibition : PHOTOMEDIA CENTER
December 2005
EXHIBITION:
PEACE : group exhibition
December 9-23, 2005. Reception: Friday, December 9, 6-8pm. ELAN FINE ARTS, Rockland, Maine
September 2005
COMPLETED PORTFOLIO:
Completed and printed a portfolio of 20 exhibition prints, 25" x 25", from the series "Illuminating the Negative," with the support of a grant from the Maine Arts Commission
February - April 2005
EXHIBITIONS:
LEARNING TO ICESKATE photograph selected for 2 group exhibitions:
Surviving Winter in Maine, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
JANUARY - MARCH, 2005
Group exhibition, State House, Augusta, Maine, MARCH - APRIL, 2005
January - February 2005
AWARDED:
Maine Arts Commission's Good Idea Grant:
To print a complete portfolio of 20 exhibition prints, 25" x 25", from the series "Illuminating the Negative".
COMMISSION:
Completed commission of 250 12" x 18" photographs for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
EXHIBITIONS:
SELF PORTRAIT/PORTRAIT group exhibition
FEBRUARY 5 - MARCH 5, 2005
Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, Maine
PUBLICATION:
Exploring Color Photography: Fourth Edition - From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio
by Robert M. Hirsch
McGraw Hill, Publishers: 2004
page 172: Photograph chosen for inclusion in this college-level textbook.
June 2004
PUBLICATION:
PICTUREQUEST.COM
Photograph licensed to launch new website
Printed in: • Photo District News Magazine March 2004 • Graphics Magazine April/May 2004
March 2004
EXHIBITION:
University of New England Gallery
716 Stevens Ave, Portland, ME
March 31- May 2 (opening reception April 4th, 2-4 pm)
• Photograph in juried exhibition for Maine Public Television
FINALIST:
Captain Albert W. Stevens Elementary School, Belfast, Maine
• Selected as one of 8 finalists for Percent-For-Art competition
PUBLICATION:
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Sunday, March 21, 2004
Photograph licensed for article.
ARTIST'S RESIDENCY:
Camden Rockport Elementary School
Fotoplay, altered photographs and concrete poetry
March 2012
BOOK PUBLICATION:
Fotoplay! : The Book
The first of its kind photo-based prompt book, Fotoplay! will be available in select bookstores, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Amazon, and through the blog This Playground: inthisplayground.com
January 2012
PROJECTS:
December Fotoplay; Fotoplay Invitational
January - December 2012
WORKSHOPS, ArtLab ArtCamp, ArtLab Studio:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children and adults at the ArtLab throughout the year:
the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine • 236-2875
November 7, 2011
NEW GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Karis Gallery, Hilton Head, S.C. {link coming soon!}
opening reception November 7 : for more information : 843-384-8803
October 2011
NEW BLOG:
It's here! : This Playground : art • photography • children's art • Fotoplay
October - December 2011
WORKSHOPS:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children and adults at the ArtLab:
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine • 236-2875
September 2011
INSTALLATION : (photos!)
City Drawers, Main Street, Belfast: created with the help of the children at the Starrett Children's Center.
August 2011
COMMISSIONED / LICENSED:
To create art for 1,500 guest rooms in a newly renovated resort hotel in Atlantic City, The Borgata.
July 2011
NEW BOOK PROJECT COMPLETED:
fotoplay!:
A new book series which grew out of projects I created for my students, focusing on my interest in using the photographic image as a prompt, and as an invitation for collaboration. fotoplay! is a hybrid doodle/coloring book, which is the first of its kind in its use of photographs and fragments of photographs as prompts for drawing. *EMAIL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION, or to receive my 75 page PDF.
July 2011
WORK IN AUCTION: {SOLD!}
Support the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (cmcanow.org) and buy one of my photographs at the auction!
Exhibition: July 16-30 • Auction and dinner: July 31, Point Lookout, Northport
click here for more info
June 2011
WALL MURAL:
53" x 116" wall mural, using hand-painted images, commissioned for new store: City Drawers, in Belfast, Maine
Summer 2011
WORKSHOPS:
I'll be leading a series of workshops for children at the ArtLab of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art:
download pdf here
Winter 2010 - Spring 2011
EXTENDED WORKSHOP : Starrett Children's Center
Received a grant to work with the children at the center, twice a week, 2010-2011
"Yes is a World: Drawing & Painting on photographs and more..."
November 2010
GRAPHIC DESIGN: created complete package design for John Duffy's latest CD, booklet, label, and inlay
www.albanyrecords.com
October 2010
EXHIBITION: "Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later" Invitational exhibition curated by Bruce Brown
CMCA, 162 Russell Avenue, Rockport Maine, 207-236-2875
October 2 - December 2
August 2010
EXHIBITION: "Harold Hangs Ten" Harold Garde curates works from ten artists
Mulford Collectors Gallery, 313 Main Street, Rockland Maine, 207-594-4775
August 6 - September 1
April 2010
EXHIBITION: "CAPTURE : 50 PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS"
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, hosted by Maine Home & Design Magazine
April 2 , 5:00-7 pm: Opening reception
190 US Route One, Falmouth, Maine 207-781-2620
WORKSHOP: Shake Up Your Art : April 3, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Created and facilitated by MJB • Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
A fast-paced workshop for artists, aspiring artists, and above all, those who wish to experience new ways of opening up the creative floodgates. Working with pencil, paint, and collage, we'll create work alone as well as collaboratively. We'll leave our inhibitions at the door, and we'll discover deep wells of creativity, inventiveness, and playfulness. This workshop was inspired by the teachings of Paul Klee and Natalie Goldberg and incorporates yogic principles of centering and Buddhist notions of non-attachment.
November 2009
BOOK PUBLICATION:
Illuminating the Negative: Nine Years of Photographs
A collection of hand-colored photographs created between 2000 and 2009, inspired by the beauty and mystery of the photographic negative. Includes 46 images and a conversation between MJB and curator Suzette McAvoy.
October 2009
EXHIBITION :
DUETTO: One-of-a-kind lamps created from vintage, used, or salvaged lamps & shades.
A collaboration with ALAN FISHMAN
Mulford Gallery, 313 Main Street, Rockland, Maine (207) 594-4775
WORKSHOP : Shake Up Your Art : October 24, 9:30-12:30
Created and facilitated by MJB.
A fast-paced workshop for artists, aspiring artists, and above all, those who wish to experience new ways of opening up the creative floodgates. Working with pencil, paint, and collage, in both 2 and 3 dimensions, we'll create work alone as well as collaboratively. We'll leave our inhibitions at the door, and we'll discover deep wells of creativity, inventiveness, and playfulness. This workshop was inspired by the teachings of Paul Klee and Natalie Goldberg and incorporates yogic principles of centering and Buddhist notions of non-attachment.
Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
September 2009
FEATURED:
My Percent-For-Art commission for the Captain Albert Stevens School here on this blog
September 2009
EXHIBITION:
"DUETTO" One-of-a-kind lamps created from vintage, used, or salvaged lamps & shades.
A collaboration with ALAN FISHMAN
Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, 207-563-7299
May 2009
EXHIBITION:
"DUETTO" + a selection of MJB photographs
Carver Hill Gallery, 264 Meadow Street, Rockport, ME, 04856, 207-236-0745
April 2009
BOOK PUBLICATION : Best Seat in the House : Cats in Their Windows
May 2008
TELEVISION INTERVIEW : May 9
INTERVIEW ON "207": NBC'S WCSH IN PORTLAND, ME
April 2008
BOOK PUBLICATION : I'll Wait in the Car : Dogs Along for the Ride
December 2007
EXHIBITION: BRANCHING OUT : Rivers and Streams
20 artists collaborate with 20 younger artists
"The Making of a River" : a photo collage/installation created in collaboration with Noah, 14 years old.
December 5, 6:30-9 pm: Opening reception
Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
EXHIBITION:
recent works
ELAN FINE ARTS, 86 Pascal Ave, Rockport, Maine
April 2007
EXHIBITION:
April 28- July 21: "ALTERED NATURE"
invitational photography exhibition curated by Britta Konau
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART, Rockport, Maine
January 2007
LECTURE:
January 22 , 7 pm: "AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY":
Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine, 207-338-2222
A visual autobiography, comprised of photographs, paintings, sketchbook pages, and other ephemera. Marcie's presentation will focus on the forces - family, teachers, friends, other artists and their works - that have inspired, informed, and profoundly affected both her aesthetic and her drive to create. "An Artist's Journey" reflects a long and winding journey inward, propelled, in part, by a long and winding journey outward, from Baltimore, Maryland through Delaware; New York City; Amherst, Massachusetts; San Francisco; Florence, Italy; much of Western Europe; Belfast, Maine, and beyond...
December 2006
EXHIBITION: BRANCHING OUT : TREES
10 artists collaborate with 10 younger artists
{the Branching Out program was created by MJB in collaboration with Meredith Alex}
"Winter Lights": a sculptural/electrical work created in collaboration with Emma, 12 years old.
December 9, 2-4 pm: Opening reception Waterfall Arts, 256 High Street, Belfast, Maine 207-338-2222
EXHIBITION:
December 1, 5-7 pm: Opening reception
ELAN FINE ARTS, 86 Pascal Ave, Rockport, Maine
a selection of nine current and past works
exhibition through December 22
July 2006
EXHIBITION:
Solo Online Exhibition : PHOTOMEDIA CENTER
December 2005
EXHIBITION:
PEACE : group exhibition
December 9-23, 2005. Reception: Friday, December 9, 6-8pm. ELAN FINE ARTS, Rockland, Maine
September 2005
COMPLETED PORTFOLIO:
Completed and printed a portfolio of 20 exhibition prints, 25" x 25", from the series "Illuminating the Negative," with the support of a grant from the Maine Arts Commission
February - April 2005
EXHIBITIONS:
LEARNING TO ICESKATE photograph selected for 2 group exhibitions:
Surviving Winter in Maine, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
JANUARY - MARCH, 2005
Group exhibition, State House, Augusta, Maine, MARCH - APRIL, 2005
January - February 2005
AWARDED:
Maine Arts Commission's Good Idea Grant:
To print a complete portfolio of 20 exhibition prints, 25" x 25", from the series "Illuminating the Negative".
COMMISSION:
Completed commission of 250 12" x 18" photographs for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
EXHIBITIONS:
SELF PORTRAIT/PORTRAIT group exhibition
FEBRUARY 5 - MARCH 5, 2005
Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, Maine
PUBLICATION:
Exploring Color Photography: Fourth Edition - From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio
by Robert M. Hirsch
McGraw Hill, Publishers: 2004
page 172: Photograph chosen for inclusion in this college-level textbook.
June 2004
PUBLICATION:
PICTUREQUEST.COM
Photograph licensed to launch new website
Printed in: • Photo District News Magazine March 2004 • Graphics Magazine April/May 2004
March 2004
EXHIBITION:
University of New England Gallery
716 Stevens Ave, Portland, ME
March 31- May 2 (opening reception April 4th, 2-4 pm)
• Photograph in juried exhibition for Maine Public Television
FINALIST:
Captain Albert W. Stevens Elementary School, Belfast, Maine
• Selected as one of 8 finalists for Percent-For-Art competition
PUBLICATION:
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Sunday, March 21, 2004
Photograph licensed for article.
