Susan Smith to present at IMRC Center
Artist and University of Maine Intermedia MFA faculty member Susan Smith will present her work April 25 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center.
Smith’s 7 p.m. presentation is part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the UMaine Intermedia MFA program’s visiting artist lecture series.
Smith lives in the small town of Dover-Foxcroft, where she has seen the impact of a town that has been hit with an economic crisis. As the result of the disappearance of local industry and businesses, what remains are the shells of empty homes and acres of barren farmland. Her work is in response to “these places of loss,” as she describes them.
Smith also is an educator and former landscaper. Her work as an artist develops at the intersection of these roles through site-specific projects that address the environment through the use of sustainable methods and materials. Much of her work also is socially engaged and invites audience members to participate in the completion and facilitation of the works.
All series presentations will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the IMRC Center. They are free and open to the public. A complete schedule is online.
The series is made possible through the support of the UMaine Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The VIA Agency, Correll Professorship in New Media, and the UMaine intermedia and new media departments.