The NPF is grateful to Laurie Hicks, interim director of the UMaine Museum of Art, and to artist and designer MaJo Keleshian (whose idea it originally was), for making possible a special exhibition of "Art of the 70s" timed to coincide with our upcoming conference on The Poetry of the 1970s.

In curating the show for the Lord Hall Galleries on campus, Hicks drew on the ample permanent collection of the UMMA.

The exhibition will be supplemented during the Conference itself by a digital reconstruction of keynote poet Bernadette Mayer's 1971 image-sound installation "Memory" (listen to Mayer's description of the project here). Special thanks are due to Lynda Claassen and her staff at the Archive for New Poetry for their hard and careful work in the digitization process and to Stephen Cope for timely tips on identifying and locating key materials related to Mayer's "Memory" project.

Posted by Steve Evans on Friday, May 9 2008 in Announcements