Artist statement

Much of my current work embraces the world of my imagination. By mixing my recent travels and my fascination with the beauty and complexity of the natural world, I am free to create my own brand of visual associations. I am especially interested in the reawakening of my training in textile design combined with my extensive career as a book artist.

Biography

For the past twenty years Rebecca Goodale has been creating a series of artist’sbooks about Maine’s rare plants and animals. Recently she has been revisiting her training as a textile designer by employing that aesthetic and various printmaking techniques to create large scale repeatable patterns often inspired by Maine’s biodiversity. Rebecca has taught Book Arts and Design in faraway places and close to home at the University of Southern Maine, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine Media College, and Bowdoin College.

Her work is in many collections including the Maine Women Writers Collection at UNE; Bowdoin College Library; Herron Art Library at IUPUI; Boston Athenaeum; Yale University; The Library of Congress; State Art Museum of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI; Chapin Library, Williams College, MA; Rhode Island School of Design Library, Providence, RI; Plymouth State University Library, Plymouth, NH; National Museum of African Art Library (book made with Atta Kwami), Smithsonian Institution; University of Alberta, Special Collections, Canada; Szent Istvan Kiaraly Muzeum, Szekesfehervar, Oskola, Hungary; The White House Ornament Collection, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Fogg Museum Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Munakata Shiko Museum, Toyamo, Japan; The Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea; and the Portland Museum of Art, ME. She is a member of Circling the Square Press in Gardiner, ME where the swimming is good from May until October. Her studio is in Freeport, ME and abuts the beautiful Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary.

Website: www.rebeccagoodale.com
Email: goodale@maine.edu
Freeport, Maine