Please join me as an honored guest scholar for the Chebeague Island Historical Society Ellsworth Miller Memorial Lecture Series on Monday, February 26, 2024 at 7 p.m. ET for “Cooking Up Maine History with Community Cookbooks,” a discussion of my research on community cookbooks in Maine recently published in Maine History.

Join at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82962476056.

Join me for five days of cyanotype and book form exploration in beautiful Rockport, Maine! Your week will be filled with making cyanotypes, book form demonstrations, time for image and book making exploration, and sharing ideas and in-progress work, culminating in a final, finished artist’s book at the end of the week. No bookmaking or photography experience is required!

Dates: Sep 23, 2024 – Sep 27, 2024
Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Workshop Fee: $1395
Workshop Duration: 1-week (Monday-Friday)
Workshop Location: On-campus
Class Size: 8

Learn more and sign up at the Maine Media Workshops + College website.

Check out the “Meat + Three” episode on “Cookbooks: Past and Present,” aired Friday, July 21st 2023 on the Heritage Radio Network, where Marieke Van Der Steenhoven, Special Collections Education and Engagement Librarian at Bowdion College, discussed my recent Women of Windy Hill artist’s book in context of archiving the past of present of women’s history through communitry cookbooks.

Listen to the “Meat + Three” episode here (External Site).

View the full Women of Windy Hill artist’s book.

Join the Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts (KCCCBA) and the University of Southern Maine’s Special Collections this Thursday, September 29th, 5-6PM for the “What is Book Arts: a Panel Discussion.” Free and open to the public!

7th floor of Glickman Library, on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus (free parking in the parking garage)

Panelists: Liz Brown, Rachel Church, Anna Low, and Angel Simoneau. They are members of the KCCCBA Critique Group.

The Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts (External Site) at the University of Southern Maine (USM) is excited to be hosting it’s annual Book Arts Bazaar after a 2-year hiatus. The Book Arts Bazaar is a festival with book artists, papermakers, bookbinders, printmakers, educators writers and all things related to the book. Free and open to the public!

Sunday April 3, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Wishcamper Center, University of Southern Maine Portland Campus
34 Bedford St. Portland, Maine

Free parking in the University of Southern Maine Parking Garage at 88 Bedford Street, attached to the Abromson Community Education Center. The entrance and exit to the parking garage is found on the side street of Surrenden St., closest to the skywalk.

I hope to see you there!

Join me this coming June for RSP 299 Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio art, offered through the University of Southern Maine.

RSP 299 Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

June 13^th-19^th, 2022

Welcome to RSP 299 Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art.  This is a one-week intensive studio class with Zoom sessions Mon, Tues, Fri, and Sun and site visits Wed. and Sat.

The course is co-taught by Lisa Hibl, Director of the Russell Scholars Program, and Rachel Church, intermedial book artist and Part-time Art Faculty, and is designed to encourage interdisciplinary creativity.  It fulfills the Creative Expression Core requirement at the University of Southern Maine. Credits: 3

Schedule Details:

• June 13, 9-11 am class meets on Zoom.
• June 14, 9-11 am and 4-6 pm class meets on Zoom.
• June 15, 9 am-1 pm class meets at Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay, bring your lunch (if students are not in the mid-coast Maine area we will guide them in selecting an appropriate garden site near where they live as an alternative).
• June 16, 9-11 am and 4-6 pm class meets on Zoom.
• June 17, 9-11 am and 4-6 pm class meets on Zoom.
• June 18, 9 am – 1 pm class meets at Pineland Farms, Cumberland, bring your lunch (visit your alternative garden site as approved by instructors).
• June 19, 9-11 am class meets on Zoom. 
• Final Project due by July 3.

How to Register:

Priority Registration (Matriculated USM/UMS students): March 1-2

Open Registration: March 3

Learn more about how to register (External Site).

Questions?

Contact lisa.hibl@maine.edu or rachel.church@maine.edu for more information.

In case you missed my October workshop, I’m offering it again through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (External Site) this June:

Print, Fold, Cut! Three Playful Techniques for Bookmaking
with Rachel Church

Tuesdays:
June 1, 8, 15
4:30–6:30pm CT

Learn more and register for the workshop here (External Site).

On view now (virtually) at the Portland Public Library: Boundless Possibilities 2: USM Book Arts (External Site)

I am so happy to be part of this exhibition with the Critique Group at the USM Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts, and the Portland Public Library did a great job in creating the virtual experience!

Untitled, 2020: Art from Maine in a _____ Time is now on view online at the the Portland Museum of Art! While I hope we can safely go see the show in person soon when the museum re-opens, in the meantime visit https://www.portlandmuseum.org/2020 to view videos about the exhibition, explore the gallery through a virtual tour, and learn more about each artist and artwork selected.