Hauck Hall, University of Maine (Orono, Maine)

The whole reason for my 10 day trek to Maine was to hang my first solo show, Evolving Beauty, as part of the Beautiful Project. In its second year, the Beautiful project is designed to celebrate women's beauty and self-expression, providing them the opportunity to be honoured, rejoiced in, and fully self-expressed in their communities.

I was invited by the Beautiful Project to develop an exhibit of my work with the Female Nude, and out of that request grew "Evolving Beauty". The design, production, matting and framing of the show was executed in under six weeks, so it was with great pleasure and relief that I hung the work on the walls of Hauck on the evening of April 2, 1998.