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After eight-month-long, national search, Cranbrook Educational Community has named Paul Sacaridiz, top executive of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, as the next leader of the Cranbrook Academy of Art.Sacaridiz, who has served as executive director of Haystack since 2015, will join…
Art review: Maine Jewish Museum reopens with exemplars of art and craft
The first exhibition at its renovated Congress Street home features 10 artists and makers.
By Jorge S. Arango
Photos by Elizabeth Ruskin
A fire last May at the Maine Jewish Museum forced the institution to find other exhibition space at the former Nissen Bakery building on Washington Avenue in Portland. But now, with repairs and renovations completed, it is back home on Congress Street. The inaugural exhibition, “Mixing It Up” (through March 19) certainly lives up to its name. Organized by resident curator Nancy Davidson and ceramist and art collector Elizabeth Ruskin, it has no particular discernible theme and ranges far and wide.