It has been quite a year for Portland area multidisciplinary artist Deborah Wing-Sproul, the winner of the 2011 Maine Arts Commission Fellowship in Media and Performing Arts. Last Spring, she commuted to New York for three months as one of 39 artists selected by Marina Abramović to re-perform five of her performance pieces for the retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. 
Portland Cartoonist Lincoln Pierce tells the Worcester Telegram & Gazette that he often uses the baseball analogy when he talks to kids who want to follow his line of work: “Baseball, they say, is 90 percent pitching. .
Modern architecture is alive and well and living in Maine. That is the message of the storefront for architecture maine, which "seeks to present a fresh view of contemporary architecture to the Maine community to forward and inspire an understanding of, an appreciation for, and a connection with an architecture of our time: the present.
Southern Maine rapper Spose, who scored a top 30 on iTunes hit this spring with his hilariously self-deprecating single "I'm Awesome," is almost ready to release his first full-length album, appropriately titled "The Audacity. " Expectations are high since Vibe magazine named him "The Next Great White Rapper.
Telling Room founder and magazine journalist Sara Corbett wrote the cover story "games Theory" in today's New York Times Magazine. It's an extensive profile of a program in an alternative New York City middle school named Quest to Learn that teaches a class called Sports of the Mind.
There are things that art can do that commerce cannot. Art can question itself, contradict itself, even negate itself and yet still exist and propagate.
/ The Creative Portland Corporation (CPC) is a newly established non-profit organization created to receive donations, grants, and contributions in support of and to assist the City of Portland’s economic development efforts which enhance, support, and create creative economy business and arts district development and employment opportunities.
The Board of Directors shall consist of thirteen individuals, two of which shall be ex officio members (the Mayor or City Council member, and the City Manager or designee associated with the Economic Development Division).
If folk legend Woody Gutherie were still alive and he came to Portland to play a gig, it would probably be at the St. Lawrence Arts Center up on Munjoy Hill.
