Orono artist creating winter installation for UMaine garden, BDN reports
The Bangor Daily News reported that for the past several years, Orono artist Kris Sader has been planning and creating pieces for an outdoor winter art installation that will be located in the Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden on the University of Maine campus. Sader said she plans to “clothe” the garden using natural wool combined with plant materials she has collected from the space — including thorns, twigs, beans and seeds. She envisions trees and granite sculptures wrapped with garments that express the garden in all its seasons, according to the article. While Sader’s husband taught forestry courses at UMaine, she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a focus in printmaking; a master’s degree of science, ecology and environmental science; and a bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences — all from UMaine, where she taught printmaking for seven semesters, the article states.