Rebecca Goodale
Multi-media works and book art
About
Rebecca Goodale was a printmaking major at the Portland School of Art, Portland, ME (1971-1973), and studied textile design at the Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN (B.F.A., 1975) and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (graduate studies 1975-1976). She has been an adjunct professor in the Art Department at the University Southern Maine since 1981. In 2007 she became the Faculty Director of the USM Summer Book Arts program and in 2008 added the Program Coordinator of the USM Center for Book Arts to her list of positions at USM. She is planning to retire from USM in the summer of 2020, and a scholarship in her honor has been established at USM.
Along with her career as an extremely versatile and imaginative printmaker, Rebecca has been creating innovative and sublimely-made artist’s books for many years and frequently does collaborative work with other artists as well as public art installations. Goodale’s work includes, among many other things, a series of artist’s books about the more than 200 plants and nearly 50 animals currently listed as threatened or endangered by the State of Maine.
