Saturday 28 June
Saturday 28 June the harbor village of Rockport will be transformed into "Wegman World" as Maine Media Workshops hosts an all-day visual arts festival celebrating the work of renowned artist William Wegman.
Sponsored by
11:00 AM | Film Screening: Alphabet Soup
and other films for children
Rockport Opera House
6 Central Street
2:00 PM | Film Screening: The Hardly Boys
and other selected video works
Rockport Opera House
6 Central Street
4:00 - 6:00 PM | Simultaneous Receptions:
Wegman Outdoors
Workshops Gallery at Union Hall
2 Central Street
William Wegman Paintings and Drawings
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
162 Russell Avenue
William Wegman, born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, received a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1967. Wegman's interest in areas beyond painting developed, ultimately leading him to photography and to video. While in Long Beach he got his dog, Man Ray, and began a fruitful collaboration that was to last for twelve years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes.
Wegman has published a number of children's books based on classic tales and stories of his own invention, and a number of books for adults including William Wegman 20 x 24 (Abrams), a photographic survey of almost thirty years of Wegman's work with the 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera. Wegman has created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Nickelodeon and his video segments for Sesame Street have appeared regularly since 1989. In 1989, Wegman's film The Hardly Boys was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
Wegman's photographs, videotapes, paintings and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. His most recent exhibitions have included traveling retrospectives in Japan, Korean, Sweden and Spain. William Wegman: Funney Strange, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum in the fall of 2005, completed its tour of North America this fall at the Wexner Center in Columbus. A catalogue of the same title was published by Yale University to accompany the exhibition. William Wegman lives in New York and in Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.
These events are open to the public free of charge.
Seating is limited; to reserve a seat, please call: 1-877-577-7700 (toll free) or 207-236-8581 (international).