News & Announcements
Stay up-to-date with the most recent Skowhegan news and announcements.
Skowhegan concludes 75th Anniversary Celebrations with Benefit Dinner
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, one of the country’s foremost educational experiences for artists, concludes its series of 75th Anniversary celebrations with a Benefit Dinner on Monday, April 4 to be held at the Rainbow Room.
75th Anniversary Alumni Challenge Match
In honor of the School's 75th Anniversary year, a group of Alumni and a Trustee have come together to support Skowhegan’s future, by issuing a $75,000 challenge match for a total fundraising goal of $150,000.
Skowhegan specially commissioned works by ten Skowhegan artists at Frieze New York 2019
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture is thrilled to announce it will feature exclusive prints and artwork by Skowhegan alumni and faculty as a part of Frieze New York. The works will be shown at Booth D4 at The Shed and virtually on Frieze's Online Viewing Room.
Decision Regarding 2021 Summer Session
Skowhegan is pleased to announce “Endless State'“, an exhibition of recent works made during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
The Skowhegan Alliance is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works Skowhegan Alumni made during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. Juried by Xinyi Cheng (A'14), Yui Kugimiya (A'10), and Jagdeep Raina (A'17), this is the first exhibition of its kind to be organized by Skowhegan.
Update to 2021 Summer Session
Letter From Sarah Workneh, Skowhegan Co-Director regarding the 2021 Summer Session.
A letter from Skowhegan Co-Director, Sarah Workneh
Dear Skowhegan,
It has been difficult to negotiate writing an institutional statement about the events of the past weeks. Who writes it? Skowhegan as a disembodied voice? Me, Sarah Workneh, as a Co-Director, as a person who is black? I am not talking about race in America in abstraction, I am talking about my own body and the bodies of my family and my loved ones. My initial impulse was to create a way for us—the individuals who make up a Skowhegan—to sign a statement. But, who am I speaking to and who am I speaking for? Our community, our values, and our experiences with racism are not monolithic, nor are our solidarities.
Remembering Dr. David C. Driskell
Professor David C. Driskell was a defining figure in Skowhegan’s history. We mourn his loss and extend our deepest sympathies to Thelma and his family.
Update to 2020 Summer Session
Letter From Sarah Workneh, Skowhegan Co-Director regarding the 2020 Summer Session.
Skowhegan announces 2019 Awards Dinner and Honorees
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, one of the country’s preeminent artist residencies, will hold its 48th annual Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Celebrating Anonymous Was A Woman (Susan Unterberg), Francesco Clemente, Paula and Peter Lunder, Lorraine O’Grady, with tribute to David Beitzel Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 in New York City exceptional talent and outstanding dedication to the visual arts.
Cerrie Woodner Bamford joins Skowhegan
Skowhegan is pleased to announce the appointment of Cerrie
Woodner Bamford as its new Director of Development and Events.
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture announces 2018 Awards Dinner and Honorees
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture will hold it's 47th annual Awards Dinner at the Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Celebrating exceptional talent and outstanding dedication to the visual arts, Skowhegan will present four awards: the Skowhegan Medal for Painting, to Peter Doig; the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, to Betye Saar; the Governors' Award for Outstanding Service to Artists, to Barbara Lapcek and the Inaugural Skowhegan Impact Award, to ArtPlace America and Jamie Bennett, Executive Director.
Skowhegan receives a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Gift
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, one of the nation’s leading residencies for emerging visual artists, announced today that it has received a $250,000 gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The funds will provide for a new studio building to be constructed on its rural campus in central Maine.
Skowhegan announces Appointment of New Governors and Trustees
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture announces the appointment of artists Donald Moffett as Chair and Carrie Moyer as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, commencing January 2017, and the recent election of five new Trustees: Rena Hoffman, Stephanie Hunt, Bernard Lumpkin, Jennifer Rissler and Paula J. Volent.
SVA x Skowhegan
Dec 7, 2016, New York, NY—The School of Visual Arts presents “SVA x Skowhegan,” an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores the effects an increasingly global society has on contemporary artistic practice. The show, curated by Lauren Haynes, curator, contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, brings together Negar Ahkami, Sharona Eliassaf, Alejandro Guzman, Ulrike Heydenreich, Saskia Jorda, Gregg Louis, Dave McKenzie, Miryana Todorova, Marvin Touré and Fred Wilson, 10 artists who have never been shown together and whose work touches on identity and the mapping of various geographies and landscapes, both real and imagined.
Creative Maladjustment
A note to the community from Co-Director Sarah Workneh regarding the 2016 US presidential election.
Skowhegan Presents “Mine are True Love Stories…”
Five panel discussions on artist Ellen Cantor (A ‘91). Held in conjunction with four concurrent exhibitions of Cantor’s work in New York City, screenings of her videos at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and the world premiere of her feature length film Pinochet Porn at the Museum of Modern Art.
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture announces 70th Anniversary Celebration & 2016 Awards Dinner
New York, NY (March 23, 2016)—The Skowhegan 70th Anniversary Celebration and 45th annual Skowhegan Awards Dinner will be held Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Event Co-Chairs David Beitzel (A '82) & Darren Walker, Ann & Graham Gund, and Paul Pfeiffer (F '05, '10) salute the 2016 honorees.