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The Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellows - Fiscal Year 2006

 

	Andrea Sulzer in her studio. 2006 Visual Arts Fellow.

Andrea Sulzer, 2006
Visual Arts Fellow

Andrea has recently returned to Woolwich, Maine from Glasgow, Scotland where she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Art. Sulzer began her accumulation of academic credits at Smith College where she majored in fine arts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from NYU, a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language from Colombia University, a Master of Science in Forest Biology from the University of Maine and has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work around the world and will mount an exhibition at the State House in Augusta this winter.

For more information on Andrea Sulzer and her works of art, please refer to her listing in the Maine Arts Commission's MaineArtistAccess Directory.

 

 

	Lance Edmands 2006 Performing Arts Fellow.

Lance Edmands, 2006
Performing Arts Fellow

Lance was born and raised in Maine and in 2004 graduated from NYU’s Tish School of the Arts where he received numerous accolades. His thesis film, Vacationland was named winner for the 2004 Warner Brothers Film Production Award as well as the Clive Davis Award for music in film.

In June of 2004, Lance’s film the Paperboy was nominated for a Wasserman King Foundation award and a screening before the Director’s Guild of America. The Paperboy also won Best Actor (Morgan Montalvo) and Morning Glories garnered an Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography award at the First Run Film Festival. In 2002, Lance studied directing with Russian filmmaker Boris Frumin in France and in 2001 Lance won the Stephen J. Hawkins Sound Image award for his work with sound design.

Edmands has worked on feature films alongside such acclaimed Indie directors as Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness) and Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Mystery Train) and most recently, Broken Flowers with Bill Murray and Sharon Stone which won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Additionally, in 2005, Edmands received the Jane Morrison Award administered by the Maine Community Foundation.

 

 

	Meredith Hall 2006 Literary Arts Fellow.

Meredith Hall, 2006
Literary Arts Fellow

There were 82 applications in the literary arts. Jurors, in all cases are from out of state and exemplary in their fields. They blind review all submissions. Major Jackson, Abby Fruct and Arthur Bradford read 82 applications and came to consensus on a piece of creative non fiction, Without a Map, written by Meredith Hall of Pownal, Maine. Meredith is Assistant Director of the writing program at the University of New Hampshire and recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation among others. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College with high honors and awards.

Excerpt from Without a Map by Meredith Hall

It is my birthday. I want ritual. This place in Lebanon is called Jbeil, “the beautiful place.” I wash slowly in the Mediterranean Sea at dawn, dipping my head back into the cool, still water, an anointment. I wash my dress, and sit for the rest of the day on a long smooth ledge which falls away into the water. I have been feeling the silence acutely, the absolute lack of attachment. It frightens me, because I know I have slipped into the deepest current and may not come back. But I like the narcotic of walking and will not stop. I know the roads to Damascus and Latakia and Tyre. The walking claims ground as mine, and I am as much at home here as I have been anywhere since I was sixteen.

Between me and my mother, me and my father, me and my castaway child, beyond this quiet sea, is the dark and raging Atlantic. The sun on the Mediterranean stuns the mind. I am blank. I am here, in this beautiful place. I am twenty-three. I am alone. I have nothing.