About
Evan Haynes is an artist and mechanical designer with over 40 years of experience working solo and in multi-disciplinary design teams. His art practice has included exhibiting, teaching, consulting, planning, public art commissions, directing exhibitions and facilitating community design-build projects. In 2006 he began visiting New Zealand, starting new work in photography, hand cut paper and painting. He returned to Maine in 2018.
Public Art Commissions
2013
Intervale
New Gloucester, Maine. Royal River Conservation Trust.
2012
Maine Emergency Medical Services Memorial
Augusta, Maine. With Richardson Assoc. Landscape Architects. Phase 1 completed September 2013.
2005
Lord Hall
University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art
2005
Sitting Walls
Western Maine University, South Paris, Maine
Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art
2003
Clew
Windham High School, Windham, Maine
Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art.
2003
Vertere
Riverview Psychiatric Center, Augusta, Maine
Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, State of Maine
Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art
2001
Communique
Maine State House, Augusta, Maine
Maine Arts Commision Percent for Art
Vivo
Hitchner Hall, University of Maine at Orono
Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art
1997
Providence
Convergence International Arts Festival, Providence, RI
1996
Barnes Memorial
Portland Public Library, Burbank Branch, Portland, Maine
Planning & Design
2007
Islington Street Corridor Action and Arts District Planning, City of Portsmouth, NH with Richardson and Assoc. Landscape Architects
2006
Maine Memorial Park, Augusta, ME, with Richardson and Assoc. Landscape Architects Master Planning for 22 acre, Maine State Memorial Park
Bayside Community Design Workshops, Portland, ME. Project facilitator with Architalx.
2002
West End Dog Park, Portland, ME. Project coordinator, community design-build project with Architect David Sellers, Architalx, YouthBuild, Portland West.
1997
Forest City Annual, Portland Maine; Director, Temporary public art installations, 12 artists in Deering Oaks Park.
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Meetinghouse Arts Gallery, Freeport, Maine. A Community of Artists, paintings
2020
Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, Maine. Clarity, sculpture
2019
Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, Maine. Living with Art, sculpture
2018
WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Neverland, paintings of New Zealand and Maine
2017
Taute Gallery, Taipa, New Zealand, paintings
Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, New Zealand, paintings
2016
Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand, Works from the NZ Pacific Studio
2016
Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, New Zealand, paintings
2010
Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, New Zealand, works on paper
2004
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY Identity Crisis, with Stephen Dignazio
Univ. of New England, Portland, ME Sculpture Garden Invitational
2003
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood
2001
Saco Museum, Saco, ME. Inspired by Saco, with Stephen Dignazio
2000
Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, VT. “Prose and Cons”, with poet Stephen Dignazio
Greenhut Galleries, Portland and North Pownal ME. Sculpture from New England, curated by June LaCombe
1999
AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH. “Lit.” Writings, drawings and sculpture; Collaborations with poet Stephen Dignazio
1998
Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ. Art and Language
VI International Biennial of Experimental Poetry, University of the Southwest, Chula Vista, CA and Mexico City, Mexico, collaborations with poet Stephen Dignazio
Maine Audubon Society, Falmouth, ME, Sculpture Sanctuary, curated by June LaCombe
Cole-Haan Executive Headquarters, Yarmouth ME, Sculpture in the Workplace, curated by June LaCombe
1997
The Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME, with photographer Donald Duncan.
1996
The Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME. Solo exhibition, paintings, drawings
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. International Poetry Conference. Assembling Alternatives: Collaborations with poet Stephen Dignazio
University of Maine, Orono, ME. 50th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition
1995
The Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME. Spirit of Home.
1994
Artfellows Gallery, Belfast, ME. with artist Lazlo Lazowska.
Artist in Residence
2014
New Zealand Pacific Studio, Wairarapa, New Zealand
2012
New Zealand Pacific Studio, Wairarapa, New Zealand
2009
Lochmara Lodge Arts Center, Picton, New Zealand
2002
Northern Forest Canoe Trail/National Park Service, Art and Community Landscapes
2002
Mabel Wilson School, Cumberland, ME Gulf of Maine Lighthouse; painting and collage
2001
Yarmouth Middle School, Yarmouth, ME “Sentence Diagraming-Using Grammar in Art”
Longfellow School, Portland, ME“Bridges as Metaphors, Art and Engineering
1992
Fairmount School, Bangor, ME Writing and Book Illustration
Grants & Awards
2011
Maine Arts Commission, Maine/New Brunswick Border Photo Project, $1,500.
2002
Art and Community Landscapes, National Endowment for the Arts, National Park Service, New England Foundation for the Arts, LEF Foundation, Vermont Arts Council $54,500.
1997
Forest City Annual, Davis Family Foundation, Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance, $5,000.
1994
Roger B. Hill Fellowship, Ruth Stebbins Prize, Edmund Schildknecht Prize, University of Maine
Education
1994
University of Maine, Orono, ME. B.A., Studio Art
1986-90
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME., Continuing Education
1976-77
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA., Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
1975
Franconia College, Franconia NH., B.A., Environmental Design
Conference Presentation
2005
The Trust for Public Lands, Worcester, MA, Speaker; Art and Land Conservation
2003
New England Rail Trail Conference, Worcester MA. Speaker; Art and Community Landscapes
2004
National Trails Symposium, Austin TX. Speaker, Art on the Trail
Memberships
Maine Arts Commission, Public Art Committee member, 2002-2003
City of Portland, Public Art Committee, advisory member
Architalx, Design lecture series and community design NPO; Board member, exhibition coordinator. Project manager. 1999-2004
Town of North Yarmouth Planning Board, 2010-2013
Mangonui Community Library, Director Mangonui, New Zealand , 2015-2018
Arts and Cultural Alliance of Freeport, Board of Directors, School and Youth Committee, 2019