Hinge Collaborative is a contemporary atelier and creative platform founded by the artist team of Séan Alonzo Harris and Elizabeth Jabar. After 30 years of experience in making, exhibiting, teaching, and public engagement initiatives, the pair opened a storefront studio in Waterville, Maine, to showcase emerging and established artists working in printmaking and photography and invested in community building.
The studio storefront is a unique platform designed to engage with artists, invest in their work, teach the craft of printmaking, and participate in community-driven projects. The shop sell prints, photographs, artist books, zines, and publications, amongst other printed matter. In addition to their studio practices, the studio also facilitate socially engaged art projects and educational partnerships for artists and community members to convene, connect, learn, and make. “The studio provides space for individuals to engage in opportunities for creative expression, to animate our connections with each other and to build better civic models for a sustainable future,” describes Elizabeth.
Hinge Editions, designed and produced by Elizabeth, employ a variety of printmaking techniques combining image and text to communicate timely and potent messages. She tells us; “My imagery encompasses an array of influences, including folk art, social-political events, images of women, nature, pattern motifs, and symbols. These varied motifs are part of an extensive lexicon that I have developed over many years. The lexicon continues to evolve in response to local conditions, global events and studio research.” Elizabeth utilises a range of techniques and implements a very labour-intensive approach to creating her images by combining several printmaking techniques. Most recently, this has included screen print, woodcut, collagraph, and Xerox lithography. She then simplifies these works into screen prints in order to maintain open editions and make the prints accessible to a larger audience. Elizabeth states; “My creative practice is located in the studio, classroom and community, and embodies printmaking’s democratic tradition of resistance and collective power and reflects my commitment to art as a tool for social change.”
Séan Alonzo Harris is a professional editorial, commercial, and fine art photographer concentrating on narrative and environmental portraiture. His work focuses on human experience and identity and examines how individuals visualise themselves and how they are portrayed. Séan’s images bear witness to often invisible or overlooked members of our communities, resulting in portraits that provide a counter image and narrative of self-worth and personal agency. His public engagement projects include I Am Not A Stranger; a series of 50 community portraits of people who live and work in Maine. These images were displayed across the city of Waterville in locations such as laundromats and the Colby College Museum of Art. Using a combination of photographic portraits and audio interviews, the project created channels for telling the untold stories, capturing personal histories and building bridges across differences.
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