Jude Valentine's Projects

BFA Alumni

Major: Printmaking

Graduation Year: 1978

Artist Statement:

Some landscapes are charged with a vital energy that leaves a physical impression. The views can be 'stunning' and literally 'hit' you or 'absorb' you. There is a numinous quality there. These places can move you--just as the body and mind have the ability to alter qualities of the landscape in which one lives, so does a landscape have the ability to alter the state of one’s body and mind.

It is this impact and vital ability to 'alter' or 'shift' one's perspective that I seek to portray in my prints, offering the viewer a deeper appreciation for the power of place.

Biography:

A long-time resident of Maine, Jude Valentine completed her BFA at the Maine College of Art and received an MFA in visual art from Vermont College of Fine Art. She has received numerous awards for her work including a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, several Special Opportunity Stipends through the New York Foundation for the Arts, artist in residency grants through the New York Council on the Arts, and National Park Service, and an Individual Grant Award from Cornell University Council of Creative Arts. In 2013, one of her landscapes was awarded an Honorable Mention as part of the international Pastel 100 competition.

In addition to her studio practice, she has taught art and design classes to youth and adults, through workshops and residencies, and at the college level since 1982. She is currently an adjunct member of the interdisciplinary fine art faculty at the University of Maine in Machias. As an arts administrator, she has worked as a museum educator, headed the New York State Alliance for Arts Education and for seven years was director of programs at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine. In 2013, she was awarded three, month-long visiting artist residencies at the: Vermont Studio Center, The Stephen Pace House in Stonington, Maine, and as visiting printmaker at St. Michael's Printshop in St. John's, Newfoundland. During July 2015, she was a resident fellow at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation on Great Cranberry Island, Maine, where she completed 11 paintings for a Percent for Art commission to be installed at the Washington County Courthouse in Machias, Maine. During September 2017, she was a resident artist at the Joseph Fiore Art Center / Maine Farmland Trust in Jefferson, Maine and focused on developing and refining a new monoprinting technique, creating 35 new works.