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The Color Of Memory Edited by Amy Stacey Curtis
2022, ISBN 978-1-7362719-9-5, 242 pages, perfect-bound
THE COLOR OF MEMORY is a sampling of the thousands of color-specific memories shared at Amy Stacey Curtis's major interactive exhibit "The Color Of Memory" in Westbrook, Maine's former high school gym (March 26-April 22, 2022). As the 2022 University of Southern Maine Artist-In-Residence, Curtis built a neighborhood of 9 homes---each house, its yard, and its possessions wholly a different color (orange, yellow, blue, white, black, light pink, green, red, and light blue). Participants of this exhibit were asked to think of personal memories sparked by the respective colors, to enter these homes to anonymously write their memories within the homes' respectively colored books inside. Curtis hopes to revisit this concept on the U.S. west coast, perhaps internationally, and to publish more volumes of memories shared.
THE COLOR OF MEMORY ebook edition (ISBN 978-1-7362719-4-0, 242-page PDF, 2.8 MB)
9 SOLO BIENNIALS (Special Edition) by Amy Stacey Curtis
9 SOLO BIENNIALS is a small-run, 400-page, autobiographical catalogue documenting Amy Stacey Curtis's 18-year solo-biennial project in Maine's mills. This Special Edition was made possible through the fiscal sponsorship of Engine (an arts non-profit propelling the creative community in Biddeford, Maine), and 275 donors.
9 SOLO BIENNIALS documents Curtis's 18-year commitment to interactive installation from 1998 to 2016---9 solo-biennial exhibits in the vast empty mill spaces of 8 Maine towns, a total of 81 large-in-scope, participatory installations. Each biennial was a 22-month, Maine-studio-to-Maine-mill process focused upon a different theme, each exhibit inviting the audience to perpetuate its 9 installations. This narrative includes a foreword by Dr. Owen F. Smith, 9 mill histories, 181 full-color plates, and lists the more than 1,000 patrons, donors, and volunteers who contributed to Curtis's long-term project. Curtis is querying publishers to make a smaller-scale book about her 9 solo biennials widely available.
There are still books available through donation toward Curtis's upcoming interactive installation projects. To donate, send shipping address and check or money order for $25 (written to "Amy Stacey Curtis"; memo: "9 SOLO BIENNIALS") to: Amy Stacey Curtis, 191 Lisbon Street, #3, Lewiston, Maine 04240. To donate with credit card click PayPal; type "9 SOLO BIENNIALS" into "Description" field; keeping "Quantity" at "1," type $25 into "Price per item" field; next screen select "Pay with Debit or Credit Card"; next screen click "Ship to my billing address" or include shipping address. You can also donate using Venmo (Amy-Curtis-117; 3390) including shipping address and mention of book.
DRAWING MEMORY by Amy Stacey Curtis
2015, 64 pages, perfect-bound, editioned/signed (12 of 99 remaining; $15 price includes shipping), includes 18 black-and-white plates, autobiographical narrative
To order, send shipping address and check or money order for $15 (written to "Amy Stacey Curtis"; memo: "DRAWING MEMORY") to: Amy Stacey Curtis, 191 Lisbon Street, #3, Lewiston, Maine 04240. To pay with credit card click PayPal; (type "DRAWING MEMORY" into "Description" field; keeping "Quantity" at "1," type $15 into "Price per item" field; next screen select "Pay with Debit or Credit Card"; next screen click "Ship to my billing address" or include shipping address. You can also pay using Venmo (Amy-Curtis-117; 3390) including shipping address and mention of book.
AMY STACEY CURTIS: 9 WALKS by Amy Stacey Curtis
2013, 32 pages, perfect-bound, includes 11 full-color plates, autobiographical narrative, and excerpt from "Seeing Process" by Jessica May, used with permission from the Portland Museum of Art
Context, process, and reflections regarding the 2013-2014 exhibit "Amy Stacey Curtis: 9 walks" at the Portland Museum of Art.
WOMEN, TRAUMA & VISUAL EXPRESSION by Amy Stacey Curtis, foreword by Patricia Reis
2005, ISBN 0-9763567-0-8, LCCN 2004099442, 256 pages, perfect-bound, includes 23 half-tone plates, notes, selected bibliography, index
Drawing from extensive research, ambitious surveys, interviews, and personal experience, Amy Stacey Curtis focuses on how and why women visual artists who have experienced trauma communicate trauma through their work process and imagery. WOMEN, TRAUMA & VISUAL EXPRESSION compares the lives and work of nine women artists: four from our past--Artemisia Gentileschi, Kaethe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Eva Hesse--and five contemporaries, including Curtis herself, from Chicago, Washington State, San Francisco, New Jersey, and Maine. Curtis discusses personal, cultural, and collective trauma, the anatomy of trauma, the history of women's trauma research, the artist's work process and connection to audience, trauma's content, symbols, patterns, and archetypes, trauma and "trauma art" as stigma, and the collective visual manifestation of coping mechanisms used to survive trauma. Curtis received her MA in Art and Psychology from Vermont College of Norwich University in 2000, and in 2003, proposed/juried "Women, Trauma & Visual Expression" at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, an international exhibit featuring work by women who have experienced trauma.
Pay what you can (between $5 and $20) for each perfect-bound book.
WOMEN, TRAUMA & VISUAL EXPRESSION ebook edition (ISBN 0-9763567-0-6, 227-page PDF, no images, 1.3 MB)
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