Department of Art Students Present Research
Two department majors, Chantelle Flores and Jordan Ramos, will be delivering public presentations about their research undertaken as McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows. Please add these events to your calendars and come support Chamtelle and Jordan!
Chantelle Flores is a student in the Honors College, dual English and Art History major, and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow whose presentation Autonomous Autopsy: Re-presenting Medical Trauma in Documentary Poetics aims to raise awareness of medical trauma by creatively exploring the tensions between patient and medical field, between subject and document, and between the physical body and one’s lived experience. Flores will be working with Dr. Hollie Adams, Assistant Professor of English. Flores’s MHC Undergraduate Fellowship is supported by the David ’64, ’67G and Alison ’71 Wiggin Humanities Fellowship.
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The medical document: an objective translation of a lived body and often one of the only physical artifacts left behind from traumatic medical experiences. Flores creatively explores documentary poetics as a means for re-presenting medical trauma and the body through manipulation of these medical documents. With Autonomous Autopsy, Flores investigates what can be learned through processing and how “invisible” facets of trauma can be visualized as her poetry works in dialogue with personal found documents.
104 IMRC Center (Fernald Adaptive Presentation/Performance Environment) – 5:00 PM on November 19, 2025.
Jordan Ramos is a student in the Honors College, a Studio Art and Environmental Science double major, and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow whose project Athletes of the Rake: A Tribute to the People Who Do the Work of a Shrinking Harvest in the Wild Blueberry Fields of Maine examines the interconnected relationship between the fields and communities practicing the harvest tradition of hand-raking. For this research, Ramos will be advised by Dr. Lily Calderwood, UMaine Cooperative Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist and Assistant Professor of Horticulture. Ramos’s MHC Undergraduate Fellowship is supported by the Echoes of Maine Humanities Fund.
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Jordan Ramos’s body of work illustrates the wild blueberry harvest heritage in Maine, focusing on the tradition of hand-raking. Her series of watercolor paintings, paired with perspective quotes, speaks to her experience traveling across the blueberry fields of the Midcoast and Downeast regions of Maine to meet with the people who come for this special harvest. Through an interdisciplinary lens that combines art, storytelling, and ecology, Jordan’s creative research project aims to highlight the underserved communities who are a part of this heritage practice today: small farmers, migrant and local rakers, and the Passamaquoddy and Mi’kmaq tribal people. Her work focuses on labor, ecological relationships, and community connections.
104 IMRC Center (Fernald Adaptive Presentation/Performance Environment) – 5:00 PM on November 24, 2025.
