Pam Longobardi - Beach Cleanup

Visiting Artist in residence at MARC

Pam Longobardi, Professor of Art from University of Georgia will be on UNE campuses from Sunday October 14th through Saturday the 20th collecting objects from local beaches and creating an art installation on the UNE Biddeford Campus, location TBD.

In addition to her two artist talks:

Wednesday, October 17, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM in Alfond 113, Biddeford Campus
Thursday, October 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in the Art Gallery, Portland Campus

Longobardi will be gathering materials for her artwork on the beach.  Please join us as we clean up our beaches and make art!

There will be several beach-cleaning events around the Saco/Biddeford area - call or email ahead to find out where and when, or come to the MARC center on the Biddeford campus to visit the artist in residence.

Longobardi Bio:

Professor Pam Longobardi has had over 40 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan and elsewhere. She received a SAF\NEA Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting, Tennessee Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship, and was artist in residence with the BAU Institute in Otranto, Italy, in Kasterlee, Belgium, and in Beijing at NY ARTS/Beijing during the 2008 Olympics. In 2005 Longobardi was named recipient of Georgia State University’s Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, where she is Professor of Art. 

Longobardi currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and has created the Drifters Project in 2006, addressing global plastic pollution and the changing ocean. Working solo or with communities, she has made scores of interventions, cleaning beaches of plastic all over the world, removing thousands of pounds of material from the natural environment. Upcoming in 2012 is a project addressing plastic and oil at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin in May, and a major expedition sponsored by the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska SeaLife Center taking artists and scientists along Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands.

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