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Q&A: The American Sublime

Team taught by arts faculty members Catherine Clinger, The Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts, and professor of drawing and painting Sean Foley, Journey into Substance is a three-course expeditionary program located in physical and cultural landscapes. Through curated immersive experience, students explore the concepts of beauty, wonder, and the sublime in the context of 19th Century American landscape art.
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Melancholia

In 2016, COA art faculty member Sean Foley explored the qualities of wonder in art. Currently, and for the last four years, he’s also been exploring the humor, frustration, and sadness inherent within a more personal subject, the chronic depression that has been passed down through his paternal line.
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Looking back: Faculty and Staff Milestones in 2016

COA faculty and staff were noted among the most influential people in Maine, voted volunteers of the year, celebrated as authors of new books, and sought after as thought leaders in the world of human ecology and politics in 2016.