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Friday, August 29, 2014
Volume 10 • Issue No. 35
‘The Jacket Project: Refashioned History’ Exhibit By Gillette YORK – Contemporary art and artists are often cited for, and sometimes accused of, pushing the limits of conventions to challenge and provoke the viewer’s experience. Some incorporate real time events with a creative interpretation that pulls the viewer in directions that are uncharted, but can be somehow deeply familiar. Artist Lauren Gillette thinks of herself as a story teller or, rather, re-teller. Her stories center on peoples’ lives and experiences, thoughts and longings. In Gillette’s Jacket Project she has scribed these stories on to the surface of leather jackets. Why jackets, why leather? Perhaps the jacket represents the skin of the individual wherein lies the true self. “I am a conceptual artist. Biography, history, and text, are my bricks, aesthetics, repetition and empathy, my mortar. I bear witness.” The Jacket Project by Gillette will be on exhibit at York Public Library from September 3 through October 30. The artist’s reception will be held on Sept. 23, at 5 p.m. This exhibit is one of the more contemporary show-
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not seem to be an order to how these stories are revealed. They appear to be helter-skelter and conjure up an overly exuberant
form or another. The Jacket Project is dear to her heart as each jacket with its myriad of planes, allows her a lot of elbow room to mine for information, to research, fact gather and interview her way through someone’s life over a period of months and sometimes years. Though intimate in tone, societal issues of wars, racism, poverty and the like are often defining factors in these stories. Gillette has also exhibited the Jacket Project at the Portland Museum of Art. She lives and works in her studio in southern Maine. The York Public Library is located at 15 Long Sands Road in York. For more information, call 363-2818 or visit www.york. lib.me.us.
Annual Septemberfest® Set for This Week KITTERY – Kittery Trading Post’s 38th Annual Septemberfest Celebration will feature a special guest appearance by Matt Light, 3-time Super Bowl champion who played his entire pro football career in New England. The popular offensive tackle who retired in 2012 will be at Kittery Trading Post on Wednesday, Sept. 3 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. to meet the public and sign autographs. Light’s appearance is being sponsored by Carhartt and Kittery Trading Post. A two-hour concert by Don Campbell benefitting the Spruce Creek Association Clean Water Monitoring Project and Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership is also set for Sept. 3 at 6 p.m. The line-up of Septemberfest events include performances by Magician Norman Ng, Juggler Jason Tardy, Female Chainsaw Artists Chainsaw Chix and slackline yoga demo on a 1” webbing by YogaSlackers. Also making appearances are outdoor personalities Brian Quaca of TV’s popular Pigman hunting series, Larry Weishuhn, Whitney Isenhart, Jason Hornady
and Super Slam hunter Tom Miranda. A wildlife animal show, pony rides, climbing wall, inflatable tiger slide, face painting and airgun shooting center round out the schedule of entertainment. Septemberfest Week winds up on Sunday, Sept. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a special appearance by Grammy-nominated, country/rock artist Aaron Lewis. The lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Staind will meet fans and sign autographs. A hunting enthusiast, Lewis will be autographing a Benelli shotgun which will be given away during the event. A complete schedule is available at ktpevents.com.
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Kite Flying on Ogunquit Beach Saturday September 13, one of the featured events of Capriccio’s Festival of the Arts.
Capriccio – Ogunquit’s Festival of The Arts OGUNQUIT – Capriccio was started by Ogunquit Performing Arts (OPA) 24 years ago to celebrate Ogunquit’s 10th anniversary as an independent town. It has grown from a weekend event to a two-week long town-wide Festival of the Arts from September 1 to September 14. OPA’s featured event for Capriccio 2014 takes place on Saturday night, September 6 at 8 p.m. at the Dunaway Center with the performance by Occidental Gypsy, a band that compliments
original material with expertly arranged ‘gypsified’ covers. Their unique approach to world, pop, jazz and dance music stems from the influence of Gypsy Swing founders, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli. An Occidental Gypsy performance includes so much more than just music. Scottie, Eli, Brett, Jeff, and Erick are incredibly energetic and charming entertainers. On stage, the dialog between band members is entertaining, esSee ARTS page 7...
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ings at the library and one that will evoke interest and engagement on many levels. Just as in real life, there may
person babbling on and on. At first glance statements and opinions seem to collide, but as you ponder each jacket, each disparate statement begins to reveal the life, times and inner workings of her subjects. Her subjects, some famous, some caught up in the political turmoil of their time and some known to Gillette personally, come from many walks of life and historical and cultural periods. As in storytelling the viewer is subject to the story teller’s interpretation of the person’s life story by what is chosen to be revealed. And therein lies the artist at work; creatively fashioning history. Since graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1983, Lauren Gillette has been storytelling in one art-based
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