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Artist Lecture: Julie Poitras Santos
October 21, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
This program is free and open to the public.
About the Artist (from CVA): Julie Poitras Santos’ solo and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Reykjanesbaer Art Museum in Iceland and at the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Spain, among others. She has attended residencies and created performances and projects in the United States, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Iceland, including residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center, in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL (2005, 2008), Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain (2006) and NES Artists Residency in Skagastrond, Iceland (2009).
Poitras Santos has taught sculpture at Bowdoin College, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She lived in Barcelona, Spain for three years (2004-2007) and worked as the Artistic Director of the Art Residency program Can Serrat, in Montserrat National Park.
Poitras Santos holds two MFAs, one in Visual Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000, and a second in Poetry from the Stonecoast Creative Writing program, 2013. She received a BS from Tufts University in 1990.
She currently teaches in the MFA Program at Maine College of Art, and lives in Portland, Maine.
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