The board of directors for UMVA is a dedicated group of volunteers who meet several times a year. 2023 has seen director David Estey lead several initiatives designed to make the board more of a working group. The bylaws have been changed to add several new directors to the board, which are *ed (starred).
Greg Mason Burns is a self-taught artist originally from Bar Harbor. Artistically, his influences span from Kandinsky to Barnett Newman to Diebenkorn to Hemingway, as well having lived and developed on three continents. As a result, his work is diverse and he uses multiple techniques from painting to drawing to abstract photography. His art career began in Santiago de Chile before he moved to Brazil and then back to Maine. He has exhibited internationally in Brazil, Portugal, Scotland, and the United States.
Greg joined the UMVA in 2019 to participate in the show titled, "The Way Life Is - Maine Working Families and Communities," and he joined the Board of Directors a couple of years later. He has also served as a de facto webmaster for several years. He sees the UMVA more as an organization to support artists and their needs than as a venue for exhibiting, though he has exhibited and curated multiple shows during his membership, as well.
Alan Crichton* is an artist living in Liberty, Maine since 1971. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Goddard College, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the New York Studio School, he has taught at Colby College, the MFA program at Vermont College, Waterfall Arts, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland ME. He has exhibited throughout Maine for over forty years. His award-winning column of art reviews, appreciation, and opinion, Hi-Lo Art, has appeared in the Waldo Independent, the Republican Journal, the Camden Herald, Art New England, the Maine Arts Journal, and The Free Press.
In 2000, he and a group of friends founded the Arts Center at Kingdom Falls, in Montville ME, a non-profit, community arts education and exhibition organization known as Waterfall Arts, now located in Belfast ME. Crichton's sculpture, drawings and paintings are in numerous collections throughout Maine, New England and New York.
David Estey is an abstract-expressionist painter in Belfast, with degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and George Washington University. Besides a stint in the army as an illustrator and a federal career in public affairs, he has lived, worked, taught art and exhibited in Baltimore/Washington, Philadelphia, North Carolina and Mid-coast Maine. About his improvisational paintings, he says, “I start with nothing in mind, to see what may develop. I want to be as surprised and intrigued as anyone else by what I make.”
After 70 plus years of making art, he has produced over 100 sketchbooks and more than 10,800 pieces of art. In the past three decades of exhibiting, he has been in 24 solo shows and over 100 group and juried exhibits. His work is in private and institutional collections in 20 states and seven countries. To learn more about David and his art, visit www.davidestey.com.
William Hessian is a visual artist, game designer and social worker. He has travelled the country doing art events with the Hidden Ladder Collective, and has performed miniature art hunts for the public across the country. William grew up in Minnesota and now lives in Maine. In reference to his paintings William has said, "My paintings often depict a personal mythology, which takes elements or challenges from my life and introduces and explores them within an unknown and abstract world."
William's passion for the intersection of activism and art led him to find the Union of Maine Visual Artists in 2011 for a Draw-A-Thon event. A few years later he joined the board in order to re-start the UMVA Portland Chapter. William then stepped into the President role in 2018.
Cynthia Hyde co-owns/directs the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland with her husband, Jim Kinnealey. As artists (painters, both), they combine their compassion for the artist’s condition with their expertise in working with collectors. They believe that the artwork itself is the driving force for the success of the Caldbeck, which first opened its door on Elm Street in 1982. And they believe that the gallery’s mission is to support the visual arts and the artists who make it.
Richard Kane is a New England Emmy-nominated director of 80+ films. Truth Tellers, his latest doc about Rob Shetterly and the courage to defend our founding ideals, will be distributed nationally to American Public Television stations in 2024. The film is part of his series Maine Masters fiscally sponsored by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, Others in the series include: I Know a Man … Ashley Bryan screened at 15 international festivals in the US, South Africa and Jamaica and at library conferences around the US. His Imber’s Left Hand won four BEST FILM Awards. David Driskell won the Shaw Prize for Best Film (Maine Public). M.C. Richards: The Fire Within is now considered a classic in the art & creativity world. J. Fred Woell: An American Vision premiered at the Museum of Art & Design in NYC.
Greg Mason Burns is a self-taught artist originally from Bar Harbor. Artistically, his influences span from Kandinsky to Barnett Newman to Diebenkorn to Hemingway, as well having lived and developed on three continents. As a result, his work is diverse and he uses multiple techniques from painting to drawing to abstract photography. His art career began in Santiago de Chile before he moved to Brazil and then back to Maine. He has exhibited internationally in Brazil, Portugal, Scotland, and the United States.
Greg joined the UMVA in 2019 to participate in the show titled, "The Way Life Is - Maine Working Families and Communities," and he joined the Board of Directors a couple of years later. He has also served as a de facto webmaster for several years. He sees the UMVA more as an organization to support artists and their needs than as a venue for exhibiting, though he has exhibited and curated multiple shows during his membership, as well.
Greg Mason Burns
Alan Crichton* is an artist living in Liberty, Maine since 1971. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Goddard College, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the New York Studio School, he has taught at Colby College, the MFA program at Vermont College, Waterfall Arts, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland ME. He has exhibited throughout Maine for over forty years. His award-winning column of art reviews, appreciation, and opinion, Hi-Lo Art, has appeared in the Waldo Independent, the Republican Journal, the Camden Herald, Art New England, the Maine Arts Journal, and The Free Press.
In 2000, he and a group of friends founded the Arts Center at Kingdom Falls, in Montville ME, a non-profit, community arts education and exhibition organization known as Waterfall Arts, now located in Belfast ME. Crichton's sculpture, drawings and paintings are in numerous collections throughout Maine, New England and New York.
Alan Crichton
David Estey is an abstract-expressionist painter in Belfast, with degrees from Rhode Island School of Design and George Washington University. Besides a stint in the army as an illustrator and a federal career in public affairs, he has lived, worked, taught art and exhibited in Baltimore/Washington, Philadelphia, North Carolina and Mid-coast Maine. About his improvisational paintings, he says, “I start with nothing in mind, to see what may develop. I want to be as surprised and intrigued as anyone else by what I make.”
After 70 plus years of making art, he has produced over 100 sketchbooks and more than 10,800 pieces of art. In the past three decades of exhibiting, he has been in 24 solo shows and over 100 group and juried exhibits. His work is in private and institutional collections in 20 states and seven countries. To learn more about David and his art, visit www.davidestey.com.
David Estey - “I joined the UMVA Board to grow my
experience and share it with other Maine artists.”
William Hessian is a visual artist, game designer and social worker. He has travelled the country doing art events with the Hidden Ladder Collective, and has performed miniature art hunts for the public across the country. William grew up in Minnesota and now lives in Maine. In reference to his paintings William has said, "My paintings often depict a personal mythology, which takes elements or challenges from my life and introduces and explores them within an unknown and abstract world."
William's passion for the intersection of activism and art led him to find the Union of Maine Visual Artists in 2011 for a Draw-A-Thon event. A few years later he joined the board in order to re-start the UMVA Portland Chapter. William then stepped into the President role in 2018.
William Hessian
Cynthia Hyde co-owns/directs the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland with her husband, Jim Kinnealey. As artists (painters, both), they combine their compassion for the artist’s condition with their expertise in working with collectors. They believe that the artwork itself is the driving force for the success of the Caldbeck, which first opened its door on Elm Street in 1982. And they believe that the gallery’s mission is to support the visual arts and the artists who make it.
Cynthia Hyde
Richard Kane is a New England Emmy-nominated director of 80+ films. Truth Tellers, his latest doc about Rob Shetterly and the courage to defend our founding ideals, will be distributed nationally to American Public Television stations in 2024. The film is part of his series Maine Masters fiscally sponsored by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, Others in the series include: I Know a Man … Ashley Bryan screened at 15 international festivals in the US, South Africa and Jamaica and at library conferences around the US. His Imber’s Left Hand won four BEST FILM Awards. David Driskell won the Shaw Prize for Best Film (Maine Public). M.C. Richards: The Fire Within is now considered a classic in the art & creativity world. J. Fred Woell: An American Vision premiered at the Museum of Art & Design in NYC.
Earlier films include: Faces of Microcredit (Cine Golden Eagle); Technology: Renewing the American Dream, narrated by President Bill Clinton; Tough, Pretty or Smart (Best Short Documentary at the Cork Film Festival and short-listed for an Academy Award). www.kanelewis.com. He's served as Chair of the Maine Film Association 1997 – 2007 and currently serves as Secretary of the Board of the Union of Maine Visual Artists.
Janice L. Moore paints in oils from her studio in Freeport. Born in Canada, her family is from Nova Scotia and she spent her childhood in northern Maine along the border. At fourteen, her family moved to the coast where she found her community of creatives. After graduating from Waynflete School and Sarah Lawrence College, she traveled extensively then spent a decade in New York City working in the arts and in fashion before returning to Maine to raise her son.
Moore pursues an ongoing exploration of Maine's industrial landscapes and our structures centered around work. She shows her art in traditional gallery settings and has a particular interest for showing in places of healing, having spent a fair amount of time in them and knowing first hand their worth.
Her curatorial work focuses on using underutilized and sometimes unconventional spaces for creating exhibits on particular themes and obsessions. She includes a range of perspectives from well established artists to those who have never shared their work before. She loves the unique narrative and community gathering that result from these combined invitations and calls for art.
Her work is in many private and public collections including among others the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning + Labor, LL Bean, The Roux Institute , Brigham & Women's MS Center, and Maine Health.
Daniel Sipe* is the co-founder and co-director of Lights Out Gallery. He grew up in Presque Isle, Maine, and currently lives in Norway, Maine. Daniel graduated from the University of Maine Business School with a Degree in Marketing, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Daniel has always been interested in viewing art and hearing people's stories but fell in love with the art world after traveling and selling art with the Hidden Ladder Collective. He is excited to build deeper connections with the Maine arts community. His greatest skills are creative problem-solving, relationship-building, event planning, and promotion.
Barbara Sullivan* is a painter and installation artist living in Maine. She works in the age–old medium of fresco, which she learned when she was the head cook at The Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. Her relationship to the Maine art community is long and involved. Sullivan holds a B.A. in Art and Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington (1996) and an M.F.A. from Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. (1999). She is recently retired from teaching drawing and painting foundations at The University of Maine at Farmington (2000-2022) She also teaches fresco workshops; including, The Aspen Institute, The Farnsworth Museum, Haystack Mountain School, Pratt Institute, Bowdoin, Colby, The University of Maine, Waterfall Arts and Monson Arts.
In 2007, Sullivan had her first solo Museum Exhibition, at The Zillman Museum, Bangor, ME. She has shown widely in Maine including three Portland Museum of Art Biennials and in New York, “Fresh fresco”, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery (2001), “Fresco, Off The Wall” (2014) at The Hudson Guild Gallery and at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2019). She has received both The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant and The Pollock/Krasner Grant. Barbara is represented by Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME (1996-present)
Christine Sullivan* is a multi-media artist working with photography and cut-paper collage, as well as a writer and editor. She is especially proud of my role in bringing the Kneeling Art Photography Project to life in book form. Her international travels have fueled her with diverse and colorful imagery from unfamiliar cultures. Sometimes her photographs find their way into the collages.
Richard Kane
Janice L. Moore paints in oils from her studio in Freeport. Born in Canada, her family is from Nova Scotia and she spent her childhood in northern Maine along the border. At fourteen, her family moved to the coast where she found her community of creatives. After graduating from Waynflete School and Sarah Lawrence College, she traveled extensively then spent a decade in New York City working in the arts and in fashion before returning to Maine to raise her son.
Moore pursues an ongoing exploration of Maine's industrial landscapes and our structures centered around work. She shows her art in traditional gallery settings and has a particular interest for showing in places of healing, having spent a fair amount of time in them and knowing first hand their worth.
Her curatorial work focuses on using underutilized and sometimes unconventional spaces for creating exhibits on particular themes and obsessions. She includes a range of perspectives from well established artists to those who have never shared their work before. She loves the unique narrative and community gathering that result from these combined invitations and calls for art.
Her work is in many private and public collections including among others the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning + Labor, LL Bean, The Roux Institute , Brigham & Women's MS Center, and Maine Health.
Janice L. Moore
Daniel Sipe* is the co-founder and co-director of Lights Out Gallery. He grew up in Presque Isle, Maine, and currently lives in Norway, Maine. Daniel graduated from the University of Maine Business School with a Degree in Marketing, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Daniel has always been interested in viewing art and hearing people's stories but fell in love with the art world after traveling and selling art with the Hidden Ladder Collective. He is excited to build deeper connections with the Maine arts community. His greatest skills are creative problem-solving, relationship-building, event planning, and promotion.
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Barbara Sullivan* is a painter and installation artist living in Maine. She works in the age–old medium of fresco, which she learned when she was the head cook at The Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. Her relationship to the Maine art community is long and involved. Sullivan holds a B.A. in Art and Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington (1996) and an M.F.A. from Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. (1999). She is recently retired from teaching drawing and painting foundations at The University of Maine at Farmington (2000-2022) She also teaches fresco workshops; including, The Aspen Institute, The Farnsworth Museum, Haystack Mountain School, Pratt Institute, Bowdoin, Colby, The University of Maine, Waterfall Arts and Monson Arts.
In 2007, Sullivan had her first solo Museum Exhibition, at The Zillman Museum, Bangor, ME. She has shown widely in Maine including three Portland Museum of Art Biennials and in New York, “Fresh fresco”, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery (2001), “Fresco, Off The Wall” (2014) at The Hudson Guild Gallery and at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2019). She has received both The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant and The Pollock/Krasner Grant. Barbara is represented by Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, ME (1996-present)
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| Barbara Sullivan |
Christine Sullivan* is a multi-media artist working with photography and cut-paper collage, as well as a writer and editor. She is especially proud of my role in bringing the Kneeling Art Photography Project to life in book form. Her international travels have fueled her with diverse and colorful imagery from unfamiliar cultures. Sometimes her photographs find their way into the collages.
She spends as much time as possible outdoors, and often uses animal and forest images to populate collages, dubbed “Dreamscapes.” While staying at home during the pandemic, she began to explore a new artistic/spiritual idea, the visual history of the plague in human history. Her special interest in spirituality leads her to arcana such as the tarot, myths, crystals and mandala –all sources of inspiration. Also she is a regular exhibitor with the Union of Maine Visual Artists, and an enthusiastic audience for all the arts, musical, visual and literary.
Joanne Tarlin* resides in Harpswell, Maine where her studio overlooks coastal waters. She moved to Maine from Massachusetts in 2019 and immersed herself in the new environment. Sea birds, tides, sea grass, glacial rock formations, big sky, trees, and wind engulfed her senses and engaged her mind. Her former studios were in cities where geometric and manmade horizons influenced the symbolic imagery in her semi-abstract constructed landscapes.
Prior to 2000, Tarlin worked as a creative director in the consumer marketing sector while raising her two children. While she continued her education in fine art, ultimately earning her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University, she migrated her professional skills to the non-profit sector to raise funds for varied educational and advocacy organizations benefiting people with disabilities and other challenges.
In 2016 Tarlin became a board member for her local arts organization and assisted in its revival and the launch of the @theW Art Gallery and community arts center in Wayland, Ma. In 2020, she joined the Union of Maine Visual Artists and shortly thereafter became a board member. Tarlin was an adjunct professor at Framingham State University and has been a painting instructor. Her work is in worldwide private and corporate collections in Japan, Ireland, England, and the United Arab Emirates. Her work is available through Array Contemporary, Interiology Design, and Elizabeth Moss Galleries. www.joannetarlin.com
Ann Tracy* is an artist who works in a variety of media including monotypes, digital art, photography, installation, painting, encaustics, video and theatre (actor, director, and playwright). She is a native New Englander who grew up in the Maine towns of Fryeburg and Cape Neddick before her family moved south to Massachusetts and then west to Colorado in 1969. After decades of living in Colorado, Wisconsin and California, Tracy now calls Rockport, Maine home with her husband. She is a founding member of the Midcoast Chapter of Union of Maine Artists (UMVA), Monotype Guild of New England, Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset and Professional Women Photographers (NY).
Tracy’s fine art has been exhibited from Japan to Maui to New York City to Spain and Budapest, Hungary. She was a 2014, 2015 and 2016 finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron competition and was invited to exhibit at the 3rd Photographic Biennale in Malaga, Spain 2014, as well as the Berlin Foto Biennial 2016. In 2003 her work, “Stop” was included in the catalog of the “Violence Against Women” exhibition, Group 78 Amnesty International, Tokyo, Japan. Her digital paintings “the Power of Cuba: Flamenco”, “The Power of Romania Lies in its Artists” and “Message 3” were juried into the 2013, 2010 and 2008 editions of “American Art Collector”. Tracy was a founding member of the Asylum Gallery in Sacramento during its existence from 2007 to 2009. She was also the first female voice at KTLK Denver radio in 1978, starting a 12 year stint doing radio news in Denver, Milwaukee, San Jose and Sacramento. She founded Beyond the Proscenium, a Sacramento theatre company in 1994, where she produced and directed until the company’s closure in 2009. Tracy blogs here: https://anntracy.substack.com/
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| Christine Sullivan |
Joanne Tarlin* resides in Harpswell, Maine where her studio overlooks coastal waters. She moved to Maine from Massachusetts in 2019 and immersed herself in the new environment. Sea birds, tides, sea grass, glacial rock formations, big sky, trees, and wind engulfed her senses and engaged her mind. Her former studios were in cities where geometric and manmade horizons influenced the symbolic imagery in her semi-abstract constructed landscapes.
Prior to 2000, Tarlin worked as a creative director in the consumer marketing sector while raising her two children. While she continued her education in fine art, ultimately earning her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University, she migrated her professional skills to the non-profit sector to raise funds for varied educational and advocacy organizations benefiting people with disabilities and other challenges.
In 2016 Tarlin became a board member for her local arts organization and assisted in its revival and the launch of the @theW Art Gallery and community arts center in Wayland, Ma. In 2020, she joined the Union of Maine Visual Artists and shortly thereafter became a board member. Tarlin was an adjunct professor at Framingham State University and has been a painting instructor. Her work is in worldwide private and corporate collections in Japan, Ireland, England, and the United Arab Emirates. Her work is available through Array Contemporary, Interiology Design, and Elizabeth Moss Galleries. www.joannetarlin.com
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| Joanne Tarlin |
Ann Tracy* is an artist who works in a variety of media including monotypes, digital art, photography, installation, painting, encaustics, video and theatre (actor, director, and playwright). She is a native New Englander who grew up in the Maine towns of Fryeburg and Cape Neddick before her family moved south to Massachusetts and then west to Colorado in 1969. After decades of living in Colorado, Wisconsin and California, Tracy now calls Rockport, Maine home with her husband. She is a founding member of the Midcoast Chapter of Union of Maine Artists (UMVA), Monotype Guild of New England, Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset and Professional Women Photographers (NY).
Tracy’s fine art has been exhibited from Japan to Maui to New York City to Spain and Budapest, Hungary. She was a 2014, 2015 and 2016 finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron competition and was invited to exhibit at the 3rd Photographic Biennale in Malaga, Spain 2014, as well as the Berlin Foto Biennial 2016. In 2003 her work, “Stop” was included in the catalog of the “Violence Against Women” exhibition, Group 78 Amnesty International, Tokyo, Japan. Her digital paintings “the Power of Cuba: Flamenco”, “The Power of Romania Lies in its Artists” and “Message 3” were juried into the 2013, 2010 and 2008 editions of “American Art Collector”. Tracy was a founding member of the Asylum Gallery in Sacramento during its existence from 2007 to 2009. She was also the first female voice at KTLK Denver radio in 1978, starting a 12 year stint doing radio news in Denver, Milwaukee, San Jose and Sacramento. She founded Beyond the Proscenium, a Sacramento theatre company in 1994, where she produced and directed until the company’s closure in 2009. Tracy blogs here: https://anntracy.substack.com/
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