Hutchinson Center Reception Friday
Contact: Nancy Boyington, (207) 338-8002
BELFAST — The University of Maine Hutchinson Center will celebrate two important events on Friday, Nov. 17, with a 4-6 p.m. public reception.
UMaine Prof. Alan Stubbs will present his award-winning digital art work “Illusions” to the university as a gift. Stubbs, a member of both art and psychology faculty and long-time student of photography and new media, uses digital art to help illustrate principles of perception in his psychology classes. Using digital software, Stubbs studies and creates “Mach Bands,” which can create the illusion of both lightness and motion by varying the gradients of light and dark lines, bars and circles through a concept he calls dynamic luminance.
Stubbs’ work was selected earlier this year as one of the ten best illusions submitted at the International Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest, sponsored by the Neural Correlate Society.
In addition to Stubbs’ exhibit, there will be a number of classes in Art, New Media, Website Design, and the Visual Arts represented by their instructors, students and their art.
The Nov. 17 reception will also feature the introduction of the first Midcoast Leadership Academy Class, which will be finishing its first day at the academy. Jim Patterson, the retired founding director of the Hutchinson Center, heads up the effort, which aims to develop future leadership opportunities for participants in their workplaces and communities.
The event is free and open to the public. For further information or to RSVP, call 338-8002. Examples of Stubbs’ work are online at http://www.hutchinsoncenter.umaine.edu/perceive/.