A film featuring Mitchell Rasor, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Academic Studies at MECA&D, will screen at the Portland Museum of Art on Sunday, March 29.
Writes the Portland Press Herald: "Rasor, a landscape architect, artist and musician, has been creating his salt marsh art along the Royal River for about four or five years. Just about every day in winter, he drives a few minutes from his Yarmouth home, parks at the Spear Farm Estuary Preserve and drags his painting supplies and paper canvases — some are 10 feet long — through the woods and down to the marsh. At low tide he might go knee-high into the water, while he works on a thick floating canvas."
Using natural paints and charcoal, Rasor paints with the brush-like tips of marsh phragmites. He paints primarily for the experience, mostly scenes of the river, marsh and woods that surround him.
The film, titled Salt Marsh, will be shown Sunday, March 29, at 4pm at the Portland Museum of Art. An artist talk and Q&A with Rasor will follow.
Watch the film's preview here.
Learn more about the Portland Museum of Art screening.