Visiting Artist Series: Brittany Burke
Visiting Artist Series: Brittany Burke
Photo of Visiting Artist Brittany Burke.
The Visiting Artist Series in the Lunder Arts and Culture Gallery is designed to enrich the Museum & Theatre’s arts education programming for children and their families with a focus on using art as a lens to explore sustainability and our changing planet. From October 2022 to May 2023, the Visiting Artist Series will host several artists who call Maine home. The Artists will work with Museum & Theatre visitors to create communal works of art.
Brittany Burke at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine
During the months of October and November 2022, Visiting Artist Brittany Burke will facilitate a honey-bee-themed pop-up studio in the MakerSpace.
Brittany will guide visitors through the process of molding and painting hexagonal wax sheets to create a sculpture inspired by the essential role that bees play in our environment.
Each piece will be added to the sculpture in order to create a collaborative work of art, just as bees collaborate to create their hive.
Children can choose to color a picture about bees or create their own drawing about helping bees survive.
Brittany’s work and “pop-up” is meant to spark conversation and raise awareness about what bees do for us and how we can give back to them.
Brittany Burke Bio
Born in Portland, ME, Brittany grew up attending Portland Public Schools. In 2018, she graduated from University of Southern Maine with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and a minor in Studio Art: Concentrating in Photography. Brittany has always been passionate about art, and she’s developed a great love of sharing that passion with growing people. She has worked as an educator for Mad Science of Maine, Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, Stages Youth Theater, and most recently as an Educational Technician for Portland Public Schools. Currently, Brittany is pursuing her Master of Arts in Teaching at Maine College of Art & Design. Expected to graduate in May, 2023, Brittany will be a certified visual art teacher for Pre-K-12th grade. Brittany could not be more thrilled to be a Visiting Artist at the Children’s Theater of Maine!
Schedule for Brittany Burke at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine’s MakerSpace
More About the Visiting Artist Series
Beginning in February and continuing through May, visitors will have the opportunity to meet and create alongside our Visiting Artists who were chosen through a rigorous application and selection process. Over the course of several dates, each Visiting Artist will be working in the MakerSpace for special “pop-up studios” during specific play sessions over four weeks (please see events calendar).
Each artist works in a different medium and will supply base materials and lead special art-making techniques that visitors will use to contribute to the communal work of art.
CMTM’s mission promotes engagement with the transformative power of the arts and provides essential opportunities for children to explore identity, foster creativity, and develop critical life skills essential for healthy development. As children engage in artmaking, they also are given the opportunity to explore new and complex ideas and express their understanding of the world around them.
In addition to the generous funding of the Lunder Arts & Culture Gallery by The Lunder Foundation, the Visiting Artist Series is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.