Jun
1
to Oct 25

Exhibition: "A Common Bond: The Brick Journal," curated by Alexis Iammarino, The Maine MILL (Museum of Innovation, Learning, and Labor), Lewiston, ME

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27 from 10:30-12, artist on-site all day Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28. Please email to connect for a conversation j@jenniferschmidt.com

Exhibition Dates: June 27-October 25, 2026

https://mainemill.org/collection-exhibits/current-exhibit/

As Maine MILL prepares to open the doors to its new, purpose-built museum in late June, the museum is also announcing the inaugural exhibition for its rotating gallery, titled A Common Bond: The Brick Journal. The exhibition is guest curated by Alexis Iammarino, showcasing the collaborative publication which gives its attention to brick. The show reflects the museum’s broader mission to connect art, history, industry, and community through exhibitions rooted in the stories and materials of Maine.

Drawing on Lewiston and Auburn’s legacy as centers of brick production, A Common Bond explores the intersections of craft, labor, industry, and community through the work of contemporary artists. The exhibition combines visual art, archival material and production artifacts to examine how place, historical memory, material culture and the built environment shape collective identity.

Visitors are invited to experience The Brick Journal as both a text and image-based art object and an ode to printed matter with the technical story of its material production as an offset newspaper, printed in Newcastle and Lewiston, Maine. The 148 page, eight-section publication (printed in 2023) is displayed in the gallery alongside artworks, production samples, and historical documents featured within its pages.

The exhibition includes selected works by Shane Charles, E. Saffronia Downing, Sam Finkelstein, Tara Morin, Will Quam, Luis Vasquez La Roche, Reniel del Rosario, Jennifer Schmidt, Colin Sullivan-Stevens, Janis Vogel, and Emma N Young. These artists work across themes of historical memory, ecological thought, place, the human body, belonging, collective knowledge, poetics, satire, and imagination. In addition to the many visual artists featured in the publication, The Brick Journal also includes oral histories, interviews, essays, and design contributions by Calvin Dodge, Janyce Denise Glasper, Douglas W. Milliken, Maeve O’ Regan, and Scott A.Sell.

A Common Bond: The Brick Journal will run June 27th-October 25th, 2026. For more information about Maine MILL, its opening weekend, and its events and exhibits, visit www.mainemill.org, email info@mainemill.org or call 207-333-3881. The museum’s new location is at 1 Beech Street in Lewiston. Opening weekend will be June 26-28, 2026. Once open, regular museum hours will be Wednesday through Sunday, 10am-4pm.

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Oct
4
12:30 PM12:30

Hybrid Event: Woven Conversations - Artist Dialogue with Artists from "A Common Bond" Exhibition, Maine MILL (Museum of Innovation, Learning, and Labor), Lewiston, ME

Artist Dialogue with Featured Artists from A Common Bond

October 4, 12:30-2pm; hybrid event at Maine MILL and via Zoom

Shane Charles, E. Saffronia Downing, Sam Finkelstein, Alexis Iammarino, Luis Vasquez La Roche, Reniel del Rosario, and Jennifer Schmidt

The exhibit focuses on the thematic exploration of bricks as blocks in their most recognizable form and clay as a natural resource. But they are also used as a point of departure for works of abstraction, critique, and the basis for narrative storytelling. Join us for this hybrid event to hear directly from contributing artists in a live dialogue that invites you to learn about the meaning and possibilities that brick holds for each of these artists. RSVP Here.

Made possible by The Onion Foundation.

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Mar
21
3:30 PM15:30

Workshop: All the News That's Fit to Print: Typesetting, Writing, and Print, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

This thematic workshop will explore the history and role of newspapers involving typography, type setting, and the written word, and how that relates to the development of reproduction techniques and the craft of printing. Connections will be made between the act of writing and producing text, and formats and methods of printing text for print. We will discuss well-known authors such as Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, who were also printers and publishers, and how the practice of setting type and printing newspapers influenced their writing and design methods. We will also explore the conceptual, philosophical, and practical similarities involving the invention and role of machines, typography, photography, and multiples, and nature's ability to reproduce and multiply through plant propagation—relating Mark Twain's idea of the acorn and the sharing of clippings from his Night Cereus plant to Walk Whitman's ideas of nature, transcendentalism, and the human condition. Together, we will look at slide presentations, artist book examples from the Center for Book Arts collection, and learn about the making/setting/reproduction of type for printing. Participants will be asked to write and share printed text with the group using several frameworks for generating content, as well as bring a plant they can share clippings from.

Course Code: 26SAT005I

This in-person workshop takes place on Saturday, March 21st, from 11AM to 5PM ET

Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on March 7th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

Link to Register

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Dec
1
to Jan 17

Presentation: International Printmaking Conference 2026, Print Media in Contemporary Art: Between Materiality and Immateriality, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland

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I will be giving a talk and presenting my work as part of the International Conference Print Media in Contemporary Art. Between Materiality and Immateriality, which will be held in a hybrid format at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław in January 2026. www.asp.wroc.pl

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Nov
4
11:00 AM11:00

Artist Lecture: Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Incontro con Jennifer Schmidt

Martedì 4 novembre 2025 alle ore 11.00, l’Aula Magna dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ospita l’incontro con Jennifer Schmidt, artista multidisciplinare, che presenterà le sue ultime ricerche nell’ambito delle pratiche artistiche legate al printmaking. L’incontro, a cura dei proff. Stefano W. Pasquini e Agim Sako,sarà l’occasione per l’artista di interagire con gli studenti per creare un dialogo da punti di vista differenti.

Jennifer Schmidt

Jennifer Schmidt  vive a Brooklyn, New York, lavora con supporti cartacei, grafica, tessuti, scrittura e suono per creare installazioni, video e performance site-responsive che mettono in discussione il ruolo dell’iconografia visiva e delle azioni ripetitive all’interno di un determinato ambiente. È stata due volte borsista in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts presso la New York Foundation for the Arts, borsista Denbo presso il Pyramid Atlantic Center for the Arts e beneficiaria di una borsa di studio del National Endowment for the Arts.

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4 novembre 2025, 11:00

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Aula Magna

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4 novembre 2025, 11:00

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May
30
to Jun 30

Solo Exhibition: I can hear fishing in the forest, Interloc Projects, Thomaston, ME

https://www.interloc.co/

May 24 - June 30, 2025

Opening receiption: Saturday, May 24, 5-7pm

“I can hear fishing in the forest” is an exhibition that relates various states of being involving the “woods” as a site of projection, embodiment, and experiential understanding. The artist presents projects involving poetry/mentions/thoughts/sayings/exchanges in print, graphics, textiles, sculpture, publishing, and performance, allowing for an intimate encounter with nature, the artist’s mud image, and current events. The artworks traverse the space of the gallery and the natural world, creating a site that is at once a stand, a point, a path, a shore, and a woodland.

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May
28
to May 29

Contributor: Nico Dockx & Sandip Patel for InstroomArt & PLUS-ONE Projects, Antwerp, Belgium

In the summer of 2023, Michelin starred chef Seppe Nobels, Nico Dockx and our dear friend Charuwan Pauwels decided to put our energies together to create InstroomArt: a social, culinary and artistic project initiated with the aim of training newcomers and refugees from different parts of the world for a career in hospitality, and hereby promoting diversity, sustainability, and inclusion. These trainees bring their culinary traditions and techniques as well as their memories resulting in unique dishes and related stories that are an ode to their origins. This (nomadic) project is not just a restaurant, but also an academy in which we bring an immersive experience in an artistic and culinary context, with a great social heart where art, food and education work together towards a sustainable future. Migration is a creative situation. We have to cook it up fresh each time! To let ourselves be touched. It is felt. Migration is normal. Migration is necessary. During the forthcoming Antwerp Art Weekend 2025, InstroomArt is “a guest” at PLUS-ONE Projects where we facilitate integration through a welcoming space of dialogue, and culinary and artistic experiences. We will give our chef Sandip Patel (political refugee from Gujarat, India) the floor to serve his ‘Royal Panipuri’ (an Indian street food) recipe to the visitors. He asked us to create together with him a ‘welcoming’ space at PLUS-ONE Projects during that long weekend at the end of May.

Plus-One Projects

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Jul
20
to Mar 1

Project Development: Textiel Lab, Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

I am collaborating with the Textiel Lab at the Textiel Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands to translate graphic designs screenprinted on found textiles into programmed, digitally knit patterns that are continuous designs integrated into the structure of the fabric— to create editions of wearable, useable, interchangeable, soft sculptures.

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Jul
3
to Sep 23

Exhibition: "Fist in a Velvet Glove," Site-specific installation of screenprinted posters, Trix, Antwerp, Belgium

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