Our friends at The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) are looking for art submissions for their 2010 fair.
Each year, MOFGA hosts an artwork contest to find an illustration that captures the essence of the Common Ground Country Fair. The winner gets $1000, as well as the satisfaction of seeing her/his creation on posters [...]

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The New York Times ran an op-ed this spring about artists buying $100 houses in a depressed Detroit neighborhood. Turns out one of the artists is SPACE alum Jon Brumit, who entertained us with his impromptu residency “Vendetta Retreat” back in the Summer of 2005. Jon has written on his website about the experience and [...]

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Our friend Wendy posted on takepart.com about a chance to chat live with Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc.
She says:
“It is simple to participate. At 10am PST on Friday 6/19 login to twitter and put #foodinc in the search bar and hit enter. You are now following the conversation. If you have a question, [...]

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We’re really excited that Swoon will be making a stop here in the fall, and so in the meantime we’re vicariously floating along with the Swimming Cities of Serenissima fleet via Tod Seelie’s blog and whatever other postings we find, such as this one. Flavorwire just ran this interview with Swoon a couple of weeks [...]

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Joe and Nick, curators of the Found Footage Festival, return to SPACE this Friday, May 15th with a whole different batch of off-the-hook found videos that will melt your face with laughter.
Here’s a preview:

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Hello Have Faith In Worthless Knowledge fans, I apologize for the interruption of our blog and the current lack of images. Our web server suffered a fatal error and we were down for about 24 hour, rats and damn rats again.
Anyway, things are getting better and we should be normal tomorrow, I hope.

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But they need your help to know where to go! Julian Koster and co. had a great time here on the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour and will be back to Maine to wrap up the upcoming caroling tour! Read on for details about how you can vote YOUR HOUSE on the list (and don’t [...]

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What do you get when you take a couple of guys who’ve worked for The Colbert Report, Late Show with David Letterman and The Onion and send them on tour with a much beloved collection of some seriously warped found videos? Why, The Found Footage Festival!
We’re all gushy about hosting Nick Prueher and [...]

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The Time of Rivers Festival is upon us. Three nights, two days, all weekend, all good.
The Phoenix wrote a great piece about it.
We might post some artist primers if there’s time, but we have to get things set up. I mean, this is big!
Did we mention we got media sponsorship for the festival from the [...]

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Through July and August, SPACE Gallery and Portland Downtown District put their heads together to come up with the fun-in-the-sun afternoon concerts of The Weekday Music Series. Aside from one show being canceled due to weather, they all went off without a problem and pleased the audience – whether they were fans, passersby, or workers [...]

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