On, Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m. the Union of Maine Visual Artists welcomes Deer Isle artist Susan Webster and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, collaborators on work that integrates words and images. In this talk, they will discuss their working process, present examples of both their individual work and the work that they created together--including images from a 24 piece series of work that was shown as part of the "Couples" exhibit at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in 2004.

Susan Webster and Stuart Kestenbaum began making work combining words and images in the mid 1990s. Besides their artistic collaborations, they have been working together raising two children, Isaac and Sam, since 1980.

Stuart is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). His poems have appeared in magazines and small press publications including Tikkun, Northeast Corridor, Beloit Poetry Journal, and the Sun. Since 1988 he has been the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Susan Webster is a visual artist and printmaker. Critic Philip Isaacson has written that her prints, "...have the formal complexity and, often, the chromatic depth of oriental rugs. There is invention, verve, gorgeous color and continuous freshness..."

UMVA is an artist run, non-profit organization, "Artists supporting Artists in the State of Maine". The mid-coast chapter meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday. Programs are free and open to the general public.

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