Anna Dibble Newton

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Anna Dibble Newton

Tags Painter, Visual Artist, Writer

Me in 50 words or less: Married to John Newton, class of 1957. John was an educator, musician, timber frame designer/builder, and contradance caller. I'm a practicing, exhibiting visual artist.

Pronouns: She, her, hers

Department: Physics

Bio

For over fifty years I've been painting, sculpting, and showing my work in galleries, museums, art venues. My work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum. I'm currently working at this full time.

Artist Statement

My work is grounded in the wild, driven by how alienated from the ‘natural world’ we have become and what has occurred because of this. It’s an imaginary narrative about life on earth: from animals and plants in early oceans recorded in layers of rock to the current dysfunctional ecosystem discovered in the ice and land cores, and experienced in our daily planetary existence. It’s a personal mythology in a fictional world of non-linear, circular time. An amalgamation of Past, Present, Future. I’m interested in the speed and character of change generated by the rotations and seismic activity of the earth, the moon and tidal cycles, and how all of these are influenced by what we have done to our planet’s atmosphere, its inhabitants, and now even its tilt and rotation. All the interconnections.

Featured Project(s) and Video(s)

https://www.gulfofmaineecoarts.org/

I’d like to share my expertise with:

  • Alumni

  • Students

I would like to:

  • Share advice via phone or coffee chat

  • Hire an intern/apprentice (a few weeks/months)

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