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Bio: |
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May 2010 |
Alice Spencer was born in
Colorado in 1944 and grew up on the East Coast. She
received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and continued her studies at
the San
Francisco Art Institute. She has lived and worked in Maine for over 40
years.
During her career she has worked in many mediums including watercolor,
acrylics and
oils. She is also a printmaker and a cofounder of the Peregrine Press, a
printmaking
cooperative in Portland. Her current work is made with hand-made stencils.
Spencer has had 20 one-person exhibitions. Her work has been shown
extensively
throughout Maine, New England and New York and was featured in exhibits at
the
United States embassies in the Chile and Bosnia Herzegovina. She was one
of 10 women
painters exhibited at the United Nations “Ingredients for Peace
Celebration” held in New
York . Her paintings and prints are included in numerous museum and
corporate
collections including the Portland Museum of Art, the Colby College Museum
of Art,
Simmons College, United Technologies and the UNUM Corporation.
Spencer has taught printmaking at the Haystack School of Crafts in Deer
Isle and the
Maine College of Art Continuing Studies Program. She has also taught
printmaking
abroad in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Zanzibar, Tanzania. She has served on
the Board
of the Maine College of Art and was chair of the City of Portland’s Public
Art
Committee. In 2009 she received the Maine College of Art’s state-wide
Award for
Leadership and Excellence in the Arts.
Spencer resides in Portland. She is married to Richard Spencer, an
attorney, and has
three grown children. |
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