The Union of Maine Visual Artists is pleased to host the upcoming exhibition: “Bodies Of Work” by Haley Linnet, Aidan Fraser, Quinn Evans and Natalie Nelson”, at its Portland Chapter Gallery in the Portland Media Center, 516 Congress Street, Portland Maine, March 3 - 31 2023. The gallery is open Mon-Thurs during normal business hours and artist docents will be there on Fridays 4-8, Saturdays 1-4, Sundays 2-5. Bodies of Work aims to expand the canon in which femme-presenting bodies have been under or misrepresented in art. This group of women and gender nonconforming artists present work that explores the lived experiences of bodies that are femme-presenting, fat or nonbinary. The exhibition incorporates Portland, Maine artist Haley Linnet’s lifesize sculpture “Tampon Insertion”, which is accompanied by both written and recorded accounts of 19 people’s experiences with menstruation, which span generations, genders, and races. Alongside the sculpture are works by Portland, Maine cera