Curtis’ 18-year art project at abandoned mills featured in Boston magazine
Boston magazine published an article about the 18-year art project of Amy Stacey Curtis, who teaches a class on professional development for artists in the University of Maine’s New Media Department. The project began in 1998 when Curtis decided to produce a series of nine shows over the course of 18 years — her solo-biennials, according to the article. Each show would be staged in a different abandoned mill in Maine, where Curtis has lived most of her life, and each would feature large-scale works devoted to such broad themes as “Light,” “Movement” or “Change,” the article states. Curtis, who is a UMaine alumna, will end her project this fall with “Memory,” a six-week-long exhibition in Lewiston’s Bates Mill. According to Curtis, the theme that unites her shows is “chaos, order, and repetition,” which “resonates physically, emotionally, and spiritually within and around all of us.”