Jennifer Steen Booher lives and works in Bar Harbor, Maine
Portfolio: www.jenniferbooher.com
EDUCATION
1997 MLA, Landscape Architecture and Certificate in Historic Preservation, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
1989 BA, Art History and Asian Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2014 Coursework in photography at Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME
1989 Coursework in sculpture and metals, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2017 Frenchman Bay Partners Environmental Stewardship Award, Bar Harbor, ME
2017 Kindling Fund Grant, Portland, ME The Kindling Fund is administered by SPACE Gallery as part of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts’ Regional Regranting Program
2015-2016 Artist-in-Residence, Acadia National Park, ME
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Beholding the Past, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Somesville, ME.
2017 MDI Photo Club Annual Show, Northeast Harbor, ME
2016 Designing Acadia: Creating Maine’s National Park Experience, Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME
2016 Art Meets Science Exhibition: “A Fresh Field of Life: Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia”, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME (opens June 20)
2015 Archipelago, Kingspoke, Portland, ME
2015 Island Photographers, Northeast Harbor Library, ME
2015 MDI Open, Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
2014 Vanderbilt Carriage House Designer Showhouse, Bar Harbor, ME (sponsored by Maine Home + Design)
2014 MDI Open. Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
2013 Art Meets Science, MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
2012 MDI Open. Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Autumn Leaves, Featured Photographer, September, Yankee Magazine website (newengland.com)
2016 Island Artisans, Northeast Harbor, ME
2015 Selections from the Beachcombing series, Art Waves, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 Maine Beaches Conference, Portland, ME
2013 Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, ME
2013 Buy Some Damn Art, buysomedamnart.com (online exhibition)
2012 No.27 Gallery, Rochester, NH
2011 The Insatiably Curious Beachcomber, Coffee by Design, Portland, ME
2011 Reel Pizza, Bar Harbor, ME
2011 Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, ME
LECTURES
2017 “Coast Walk and Still Life,” MDI Photo Club
2016 “Coffee and Conversation” (with Dru Colbert, Professor of Art), College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
2016 “Trivial Pursuit: The Otter Creek Edition,” PKMDI, Bar Harbor, ME (Pecha Kucha)
2016 Guest lecturer in two classes at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 Artist Talk, Schoodic Institute, Acadia National Park, ME
2015 “Stories from the Coast Walk,” Bar Harbor Historical Society Annual Meeting, Bar Harbor, ME
2015 “The Coast Walk,” Frenchman Bay Partners Annual Meeting, Bar Harbor, ME
WORKSHOPS
2015 Playing with Nature: Digital Art from Found Objects, Art Waves, Bar Harbor, ME (weekly series July-August)
2015 Playing with Nature, Acadia National Park, ME (3 outdoor sessions)
GALLERIES
Lisa Hall Jewelry, Northeast Harbor, ME
The Sail Locker, Belfast, ME
COLLECTIONS
Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME
Royal Carribean (on board Quantum of the Seas), Miami, FL (20 photographs)
21 Broad Street Hotel, Nantucket, MA (36 photographs)
Nautica, New York, NY (16 photographs)
Works held in private collections in Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States.
PUBLICATIONS (as author)
“An Artist in the Archives,” Chebacco, Vol.XIX, 2018.
“Healthcare Series”, Mount Desert Island Hospital Historic Journal, 2017
“The Coast Walk,” Chebacco, Vol.XVII, 2016.
“The Coast Walk,” project website and blog, www.jenniferbooher.com/wp-walking, 2015-present
PUBLICATIONS (photographs)
Yankee Magazine, September/October 2016
Friends of Acadia magazine, Winter 2015
Smithsonian magazine, July/August 2014
Outside magazine, November 2014
Daily Mail (UK) online, November 28, 2013
Spider magazine, May/June 2012
Handmade Sewing, September 2012
AFFILIATIONS
Alamy (licensing)
Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, ME
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Frenchman Bay Partners, Bar Harbor, ME
Friends of Acadia, Bar Harbor, ME
Island Institute, Rockland, ME
Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert, ME
Union of Maine Visual Artists
In an alternate timeline, I am a licensed landscape architect working with LARK Studio of Bar Harbor.
I also own and manage a vacation rental apartment in Bar Harbor.