Maine-Based Performance Artist to Lecture, Lead Workshop March 26-27
Contact: Julian Epps: julian.epps@umit.maine.edu
ORONO — Deborah Wing-Sproul, a Maine-based artist, will lecture and lead a hands-on public workshop at the University of Maine March 26-27.
Wing-Sproul works in video performance, sculpture and installation, photography, printmaking and projects of social engagement and exchange. Prior to studying film, video and printmaking, she was a modern dancer and choreographer.
Wing-Sproul holds a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Film/Video Arts in New York, and the International Film + Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine.
Wing-Sproul’s lecture, at 7 p.m., March 26, is in Room 100 of Lord Hall on the Orono campus, is titled “portable practices.”
Of her work, Wing-Sproul writes: “Through video, performance, installation, printmaking and photography Deborah Wing-Sproul utilizes aspects of time and impermanence to address and reflect upon current conditions of the world. Her work bridges the conceptual to the material, the individual to the social and the action to the object.”
For the workshop, “the physical side of virtual,” at 10 a.m., March 27, Wing-Sproul will use subject matter unique to each participant in exploring the importance of intent, content and delivery.
The lecture and workshop are free and open to the public. Please email julian.epps@umit.maine.edu to register and receive event location information. For more information about the artist, visit www.deborahwingsproul.com.
The Intermedia Visiting Artist Program event is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series, with funding from the New Media Department and Intermedia MFA program.
About the Intermedia MFA program at UMaine
The University of Maine is home to the region’s only master of fine arts degree program in Intermedia. The student-driven program blends arts courses with research in areas including but not limited to environmental studies, engineering, business, social sciences and new media. MFA Director Owen Smith explains that this interdisciplinary approach encourages innovation and creative problem-solving in a way that is applicable to any industry or creative application. For more information, visit www.intermediamfa.org.