Public Art

	LAUREN SHAW

Maine Women: Living on the Land

Lauren Shaw is a photographer who has been compiling visual and audio stories of Maine women for many years. Her investigation into the lives of women and their interdependence with nature has brought her into an intimacy with both the women photographed and interviewed and her own correspondence with the ability of the landscape to shape lives. Her photographic essay, Maine Women: Living on the Land opened as part of the Arts in the Capital Program in Augusta and will be on view through September 2006. Maine Women: Living on the Land celebrates the soul and spirit of place.

This poignant photographic exhibition features ten Maine women who have lived most of their lives in profound relationship with the landscape of Maine. Much of their livelihood has come from the land either by producing a product or building a community. One of the featured women is a Maine Legislator, Jackie Lundeen, who has worked the land in Mars Hill, Maine with her family for three generations.

The exhibition includes an accompanying interactive DVD available for viewing in the visitor’s welcome center. The DVD deepens the experience of the photographic essay by bringing the visual stories to the audience in the women’s own words.

	FIRST LADY KAREN BALDACCI (3RD FROM LEFT) AND LAUREN SHAW (5TH FROM LEFT) POSE WITH SIX OF THE WOMEN FEATURED IN THE EXHIBITION AT A RECEPTION IN THEIR HONOR AT THE BLAINE HOUSE.

The exhibition hopes to inspire the audience to examine the relationship they have to their personal surroundings and how it impacts themselves and their communities. For further information please visit Lauren Shaw’s website, www.laurenshaw.com.

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	TWO WOMEN ENJOY THE MAINE WOMEN: LIVING ON THE LAND EXHIBITION IN THE STATE HOUSE.