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Although the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will be closed for extensive renovations, the Museum of Art will be presenting an exhibition of work from the Vinalhaven Press in two galleries at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine. During its nearly twenty-year history, the Vinalhaven Press, founded and directed by Patricia Nick, attracted a renowned group of Maine, American, Cuban, and other international printmakers to the Vinalhaven studio, located in a former island schoolhouse. Printmakers included Mel Chin, Los Carpinteros, Alison Saar, Robert Cumming, Charles Hewitt, Robert Morris, Robert Indiana, and Yvonne Jacquette, among many others. Works from the Vinalhaven Press are found in the permanent collections of many leading American museums. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art holds the complete archive of Vinalhaven Press prints, and works from this archive will be selected by Bowdoin curator Alison Ferris for this exhibition.