Opening Reception & Book Signing Thursday, June 23, 2016, 6-8pm

Exhibition Dates: June 13 - September 16, 2016

“I have always been interested in photography, but it wasn’t until I turned 50 that I committed myself to it,” -Barbara Goodbody

Barbara Goodbody started attending the Maine Photographic Workshop (now Maine Media Workshops)  in 1987.  It was there that she discovered her passion for image making and met a fellow photographer who invited her to travel to India’s villages and sacred sites. Please join Maine Museum of Photographic Arts and PhoPa Gallery to celebrate Barbara’s work over the last three decades, including her most recent book Handfuls of Sun: A Soul Journey Through India.

Barbara moved to Maine in 1973 after working on Senator Edmund S. Muskie’s presidential campaign where she met many wonderful people from Maine.  She was immediately embraced by the community in Portland and, while raising three children, she became active in Portland Junior League and helped found Big Brothers Big Sisters. Goodbody has exhibited at venues such as Addison Woolley Gallery in Portland, VoxPhotographs in Portland, College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, the Art Gallery at the University of New England in Portland, Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, and at UNESCO in Paris, France for the International Women’s Day celebration. Her work is in the Ernst Haas Memorial Collection at Portland Museum of Art. She is a member of the advisory board at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts. Goodbody is represented by VoxPhotographs.

“I’ve always been interested in comparative religions, particularly those faiths that are earth-based, and the environmental-spiritual connection.”

“My travels to India awakened my curiosity to those other faiths.”

Relating her images to “spiritual consciousness” is a large part of Goodbody’s art. Barbara Goodbody's photographs have been exhibited, published, and collected internationally and can be seen at: www.BARBARAGOODBODY.com

Library hours:

Sunday: 2-10pm

Monday-Thursday: 7:45am-10pm

Friday: 7:45am-6pm

Saturday: 10am-6pm

All USM Libraries will be closed July 2, 3, 4 for the 4th of July Weekend.

The Glickman Library will be closed Thursday August 25 for Staff Development.