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The Portland Phoenix, December 13, 2006
Window shopping
The best displays in town are selling ideas, not toys
By IAN PAIGE
"YOU SAID IT: Or someone you know did.
A window is much more communal and inviting than a facade. Rather than one-way surface dispositions, a window presents while also inviting you for to enter a world-unto-itself for closer inspection. Countless shopkeepers labor on Sunday afternoon to create hodge-podge dioramas of their many wares to great effect. There are, however, a few windows that transcend the mandates of the consumptive holidays to emphasize the creative act."
The Portland Phoenix, November 29, 2006
Tempera and Citadel
SPACE Gallery, November 20, 2006
By IAN PAIGE
"Saturday night at SPACE Gallery was packed with Portland locals and holiday visitors to see a lineup comprised of entirely homegrown acts, including the already-lauded-in-this-column Cult Maze, so let’s focus on the other fresh faces of the evening."
The Portland Phoenix, November 8, 2006
99 percent
Films show how “the other half” live
By BLY LAURITANO-WERNER
" All next week, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will be playing at SPACE Gallery in Portland. The films explain and explore social-justice problems around the globe, with the idea of attracting attention from people who could act to fix them."
The Portland Phoenix, November 1, 2006
Learn about life behind bars
Hearing voices
By MEGAN GRUMBLING
" Our contentious American prison system — overcrowded, disproportionately populated by minorities, and, increasingly, privately operated — is not just an abstract liberal cause. People actually live in it. They’ve wound up there for various reasons — reasons often inextricable from issues of poverty, unfortunate family legacies, and the de facto segregation that persists throughout the country. The men who actually live in our prisons — mostly poor, mostly of color — have actual stories and voices, too, and the activist theater of Michael Keck brings them to Portland.
The Portland Phoenix, October 25, 2006
Cultural corridors
A talk with Nat May + Jessica Tomlinson
By IAN PAIGE
"Last week, SPACE Gallery hosted a forum as part of an ongoing series called “Creative Conversations.” With the help of visiting presenter Jason Schupbach from Massachusetts-based ArtistLink, the group attempted to answer the question, “What is an Arts District?” The Phoenix sat down to review the evening’s events with two organizers of Creative Conversations: Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery and a member of the board of both the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and Portland’s Downtown District; and Jessica Tomlinson, also a PACA board member, a member of the Maine Arts Commission, and an employee at the Maine College of Art."
