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Community Engagement- Featured Event Project
Annual Eco Arts Week, 2022-2026
Starting in 2022, Leu is the initiator and producer of The Annual Eco Arts Week at The D.R.A.W, her goal is to bring the community together through art and raise public environmental awareness. Eco Arts Week is a week of Arts-driven exploration into sustainability, ecology and upcycling practices through workshops, lectures, and exhibits for the community. Collaboration between over 20 artists, 10 educators, school and organizations.
2024 Steamroller Print Festival
Midtown Kingston Arts District (MKAD) presents the 2nd Steamroller Print Fest on September, Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd, as part of Art Walk Kingston! The producer, Maxine Leu, worked with over 30 artists in the Hudson Valley area on the project, at Neighborhood Printmaking Studio in Kingston. Each artist provided 2 feet by 2 feet lino blocks for their creation, which introduced our community to a wide variety of themes and reminded us of the beautiful things in our world.
Participating artist: Tona Wilson, Colin Secore, Carol Struve, Stephen Niccolls, Ana O'keefe, Maizy Milliken, Nick Carroll, Josh Kramb, Penny Dell, Lora Shelley, Jason Mones, Tatana Kellner, Robert Ferguson, Paul Soule, Alyssa Gougoutris, Debra Priestly, Chris O'Neal, Erin Dougherty, Isabel Cotarelo, Judith Hoyt, Mau Schoettle, Daniel Lofgren, Natalie Thomas, Jennifer Hicks, Riley Osborne, Riss Principe, Maxine Leu, Judith Deming, Patty Tyrol, Jean Campbell, Trudy Trutwin.
Participating artist: Tona Wilson, Colin Secore, Carol Struve, Stephen Niccolls, Ana O'keefe, Maizy Milliken, Nick Carroll, Josh Kramb, Penny Dell, Lora Shelley, Jason Mones, Tatana Kellner, Robert Ferguson, Paul Soule, Alyssa Gougoutris, Debra Priestly, Chris O'Neal, Erin Dougherty, Isabel Cotarelo, Judith Hoyt, Mau Schoettle, Daniel Lofgren, Natalie Thomas, Jennifer Hicks, Riley Osborne, Riss Principe, Maxine Leu, Judith Deming, Patty Tyrol, Jean Campbell, Trudy Trutwin.
MAPC 2024- Printmaking Themed-Portfolios Exchange
Organizer: Lujiang Li, Brian Mendez, Maxine Leu
As artists, we want to bring into focus the disconnection between our society and the cultural and natural world. We would like to invite artists to rethink what the limitations for materials leftover from our daily consumption can do when used in printmaking. We believe this open call can be used to engage everyone in showing not only their environmental concerns, but also create a platform for artists to speak about these important issues through their creative endeavors and self-expression. Materials such as Tetra Paks, soda cans, and plastic containers can be repurposed as the matrices. Test prints and scraps can be torn down and reformed into printing paper again. Even miscellaneous trash can create intriguing textures in collagraph prints.
This themed exchange invites printmakers that are inventive in their use of recycled materials to create prints. They are welcomed to share stories about how the prints are created with the idea of repurposing materials and giving them a new use through creative purposes.
As artists, we want to bring into focus the disconnection between our society and the cultural and natural world. We would like to invite artists to rethink what the limitations for materials leftover from our daily consumption can do when used in printmaking. We believe this open call can be used to engage everyone in showing not only their environmental concerns, but also create a platform for artists to speak about these important issues through their creative endeavors and self-expression. Materials such as Tetra Paks, soda cans, and plastic containers can be repurposed as the matrices. Test prints and scraps can be torn down and reformed into printing paper again. Even miscellaneous trash can create intriguing textures in collagraph prints.
This themed exchange invites printmakers that are inventive in their use of recycled materials to create prints. They are welcomed to share stories about how the prints are created with the idea of repurposing materials and giving them a new use through creative purposes.
Dear Pen Pal
Dear Pen Pal, is a project of Leu, the first present in O+ as a drop-by event where the community is encouraged to recall the temperature of connecting with people they love by sending a physical message, letting people have a pause from their busy lives through creative activities, and giving people an experience of illustration to imagine the world. This community engagement project has three sections, Post Hugs Here, The Mailing Box Installation and the two-solo exhibition by Maxine Leu and Corina Willette at Worlds End Comics, Kingston, O+ Festival 2022- SO+mewhere.
Sticky Sculpture and Edible Sculpture!?
In 2014, the exhibition, Sculpture In The Park- Millennium Park Public Art curated by the curators, Bo-feng Sun and Jun-ming Fan. The part of the exhibition, Environmental Art Creativity competition of Sticky Sculpture curated by the coordinator, Ying-zheng Su and CEO, Maxine Leu.
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Public Art Project & Public Art Commission
Kurt and Arlette (Sky and Ground)
The collaborative team of Michael Asbill and Maxine Leu built sculptures to honor the Surrealism painter, Kurt Seligmann at Seligmann Art Center in Sugar Loaf, NY. The project was commissioned by Orange County Citizens Foundation and SunCommon.
2022 The Fuller Moon Arts Festival at Warwick
The Fuller Moon Arts Festival is presented by Wickham Works, Warwick Dance Collective, & the Orange County Arts Council, it celebrates the convergence of performance, art and nature with a one-day festival featuring live music and dance, interactive art installations, and short plays. In this project, Maxine Leu was commissioned by Wickham Works and created a group of outdoor Dandelion sculptures.
2021 Rye'sAbove Butterfly Artists
Rye’sAbove, a public art project and fundraiser led by The Rotary Club of Rye and The Rye Arts Center. Maxine Leu as one of the 34 selected artists, their goal is to uplift the community through the arts while supporting educational programs in the region.
2020 Community of Peace Art Project
Community of Peace Art Project, a public art project and fundraiser led by Stone Wave Yoga, Sunflower Art Studio, Roost Studio, and New Paltz Chamber of Commerce. The selected artists repurposed wood into a peace sign, peace pole or sculpture. All projects spread positive, uplifting, focusing on messages that knit the community together. All proceeds go to a future artist scholarship fund in the region.
The Jam-The Best show in 2018
The SUNY New Paltz Narwhal team, Prof. Emily Puthoff, Megumi Naganoma, Joseph Kattou and Maxine Leu made the sculpture, Multi-Species Commons for pollinators in Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, USA.
Beautification of Mosaics Publicart
Between 2012 and 2015, Maxine Leu participated in mosaic projects led by artist Lin-gjun Ye. She served as perview drawing and production assistant for the Longdu Elementary School in Meinong, the Linbian Bridge in Pingtung, and the public art in the Southern Taiwan Science Park.
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Research Contributions and Documentary
Found The Mysterious Identity
Maxine Leu and Prof. Sheng-fa Yang who teaching Eastern Art History in TUT, Tainan, Taiwan helped to find out the identity of the 19-century Chinese painter, Ke-chang Dai for Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz.
HFA 2021 Project
Habitat For Artists (HFA) a collective project created by Simon Draper in 2007. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ by 6’ studios that made from reclaimed material, installed at a variety of locations. HFA 2021, the collaboration between: ArtPort Kingston, the contact committee, Michael Asbill and Beth Humphrey, the 18 HFA 2021 residency artists and volunteer interview video producer Maxine Leu.
HFA 2021@ArtPort Kingston
HFA Residency interviews | @hfaeast
HFA 2021@ArtPort Kingston
HFA Residency interviews | @hfaeast
The Earthday Action-Main Street-Two Hours Collection
The mysterious plastic bag mummy, Plady made with 300 plastic bags from TOPS supermarket in 2017. Plady's existence represents that waste happens daily and we use plastic bags unnecessarily. The word "Plady" is the name of the plastic creature, which came from a combination of the words "Plastic"and "Lady." Since the plastic bag ban of Ulster county was implemented earlier this year, Plady has shifted her focus to champion responsible recycling of all kinds.
Introductory video of artist's work
Contemporary sculptor, Megumi Naganoma focus on rape awareness art. Naganoma and Leu published the four minutes intro video about her work, Listen to them in the versions of English, Spanish and Chinese.
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