ARTFEEDS 2024:
Open Call to Artists
CALL FOR ARTISTS! We invite artists interested in participating in AIO’s 3rd ArtFeed event to submit your interest by April 26 with an email to artfeeds@aiofoodpantry.org, or by completing the webform with the following details. Artists will be notified by May 6.
Submission Form Details:
Please complete the below form by April 26 with the following details. Artists will be notified by May 6.
Submissions form includes:
Name — Phone number — Mailing address — Email address — Your website address — Instagram/ Facebook handles (if you have one) — Medium
Upload 2-3 images of recent work
AIO's 3rd Annual
ArtFeeds, Artists in Action Against Food Insecurity
A partnership with the community's vibrant artists, Page Gallery, and the Maine State Correctional Facility.
Well-known local artists create their own bowl or work with a wooden bowl carved and donated by residents of the Maine State Correctional Facility’s woodworking program.
An exhibition of participating artist bowls will be on display at Page Gallery in Camden, September 19-28. All funds raised will support AIO's programs.
ArtFeeds Gallery Exhibition: September 19-28, 2024
ArtFeeds Background
AIO has a long tradition of harnessing the talents and innovative ideas of Midcoast Maine’s creative community to make the connection between food and art. ArtFeeds, Artists-in-Action Against Food Insecurity, a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the community’s vibrant artists, Page Gallery and the Maine State Correctional Facility, to highlight AIO’s programs.
In 2022, twenty-eight well-known local artists created their own bowl or worked with a wooden bowl carved and donated by residents of the Maine State Correctional Facility’s woodworking program.
The collection of finished bowls were part of a one week exhibition at Page Gallery in Camden, culminating with a reception and silent auction. The silent auction raised nearly $20,000 to benefit AIO’s programs.
Filmmaker David Berez and photographer Tara Rice documented artists at work and their process of creating the bowls. You can view the film at the bottom of this page. ArtFeeds was featured in DownEast which can be read here.
“We are fortunate to live in a vibrant art community here in Midcoast Maine,” says Joe Ryan, AIO Executive Director. “ This collaboration demonstrates what we can do when we combine the unique talents and compassion of our community members to help fight hunger. ”
Alan Magee
Annie Bailey
Barbara Sullivan
Beth Bull
Caroline Dishop
Christopher Mir
Colin Page
Carol Sloane
Hannah Berta
Hélène Farrar
Eric Hopkins
Ileana Appleton Foster
Ingrid Ellison
Laura Waller
Leecia Price
Lise Bécu
Margaret Rizzio
Meghan Brady
Monica Kelly
Nancy Glassman
Nathaniel Meyer
Peter Walls
Sal Taylor Kydd
Sarah Lee
Simon van der Ven
Susan Williams
Tara Morin
Alanna Hernandez
Alexis Iammarino
Anneli Skaar
Greta Van Campen
Amy Lowry
Ariela Nomi Kuh
Lily Sukeforth
Margaret Williams
Richard Chalmers
Maine State Prison Handmade Wooden Bowls
Maine Department of Corrections
Commissioner Randal Liberty
“This partnership is personal”, says Maine Department of Corrections Commissioner Randall Liberty. “I grew up food insecure, I grew up with that shame and fear. No one should have to go through that. The impact of this trauma has informed my professional outlook. The Maine Department of Corrections operates within a framework of transforming lives, just like AIO. We believe in rehabilitation, humanism, and reducing stigma. We believe in being of service to the community. Residents bake, grow and harvest thousands of pounds of food specifically for the benefit of those food insecure in the mid coast.
Innovative programs and collaborative efforts, like ArtFeeds, ensure food is accessible to all, reduces stigma, and allows those incarcerated artists and farmers a pathway to personal and community redemption”, says Maine Department of Corrections Commissioner Liberty. “We share in AIO’s vision to have a hunger-free community.”
ArtFeeds bowls were designed and handcrafted specifically for this project at the Maine State Prison in Warren, ME.
Alan Magee
Annie Bailey
Barbara Sullivan
Beth Bull
Caroline Dishop
Christopher Mir
Colin Page
Carol Sloane
Hannah Berta
Hélène Farrar
Eric Hopkins
Ileana Appleton Foster
Ingrid Ellison
Laura Waller
Leecia Price
Lise Bécu
Margaret Rizzio
Meghan Brady
Monica Kelly
Nancy Glassman
Nathaniel Meyer
Peter Walls
Sal Taylor Kydd
Sarah Lee
Susan Williams
Tara Morin
Alexis Iammarino
Anneli Skaar
Greta Van Campen
Margaret Williams
Richard Chalmers
Lily Sukeforth
Simon van der Ven
Ariela Nomi Kuh
Maine Corrections Center Resident
Amy Lowry
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FAQ
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Bidding begins on Sunday, September 10 and ends at 7:00 PM on Saturday, September 16.
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Alan Magee on “Sanctuary”
The "stones" in my sculpture Sanctuary were carved from pieces of driftwood collected along the Oregon coast in 2005. Monika and I were visiting the writer Barry Lopez following a retrospective exhibition of my work at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Barry took us to several of his favorite beaches and helped me gather wood for a series of sculptural figures already in progress in my Maine studio.
The driftwood along the Oregon shore is enormously varied. Along with the ubiquitous Pacific red cedar and Douglas fir there are innumerable hardwoods which must have floated around the Pacific for decades. All of this wood is silver gray on the outside but richly colored—pale yellow, deep red, sometimes nearly black—when I cut into it.
Once I'd begun this artwork I enjoyed guiding the transformation of wood from the Pacific Northwest into a semblance of stone from the shores of the North Atlantic.
In choosing a color and value for the bowl, I remembered two Mexican Blackware pots I bought decades ago. Those pots have the color and sheen of graphite.
Although food was the recommended theme for this project, I was more interested in the metaphors surrounding shelter and safety. A sanctuary is, among other things, a holy place, and the word carries the history of spiritual practice even if a particular sanctuary, a food pantry, for example, serves a secular, practical purpose.
Alan Magee
September 2023
Poster
Web Graphic
Media Resources
Animated GIF Social Media
Highlights from 2022
“I think we should all do whatever we can to help end food insecurity. ”
— Lese Bécu
“For my bowl collaboration with AIO, I have returned to my Penobscot series where I continue to be inspired by the abundance of life within the Penobscot Bay.”
— Peter Walls
“Participating in ArtFeeds allows me to support an important cause in the community -- where I've lived nearly all my life -- while doing what I love most -- art!
— Caroline Dishop
“I am honored to be part of this project because I truly believe in the work AIO is doing. No one in our community should be without food or heat.”
— Margaret Rizzio
I'm honored to be a part of ArtFeeds and to bring awareness to AIO. I want people to be aware that resources like this exist. Help for people in our community who need food and heating assistance is so important.
— Ileana Appleton Foster
“This collaboration is a complex and layered issue, and I hope the project will lead to important questions and conversations, while directly supporting local families."
— Hannah Wade
The bowl is a vessel to gather around, to collect nourishing food, and to feed our families from. With my painted bowl, I wanted to honor the way AIO serves the same purpose.
— Colin Page
For me, the project had to be a collaboration between the incarcerated individual who made the bowl and myself—a balance between our skill sets. I wanted to work with what is here while simultaneously acknowledging what is not: the ability of some people to fill this bowl with food.
-Susan Williams
— Eric Hopkins
PHOTOS BY TARA RICE PHOTOGRAPHY
