Healing Arts Exhibits

Healing Arts Program
Healing Through Art

As members of the Healing Arts Commission, we are proud of the expansion of the Healing Arts Program since it began in 2014. We are honored to help create spaces throughout St. Joseph Healthcare that support healing, recovery and wellness for patients, employees and the community. We hope you enjoy!

Jean Deighan, Mary Hollister and Jeff Wahlstrom

Members of the Healing Arts Commission

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Current Exhibits

  • Where to view Kerstin Engman’s Exhibit
    • St. Joseph Healthcare, The Gallery at 900 Broadway, Building 5
    • First floor display case, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway

Kerstin Engman is exhibiting at The Gallery at 900 and the St. Joseph Hospital lobby until June 30, 2023. Her artistic focus started with her passion for sculpture and expanded to include Maine landscape paintings.

Engman was born in New England, educated at the Maine College of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Pennsylvania. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and spent time teaching in Hungarian Public Schools. In 1997, Engman founded Project Kalocsa, a cultural exchange between Kalocsa, Hungary and her hometown of Belfast, Maine. She has lectured and taught at various colleges throughout the Northeast, most recently in the Art Department at The University of Maine. Engman also teaches workshops from her Belfast, Maine studio on color theory, drawing, gilding, calligraphy and design.

Engman’s work has been exhibited throughout Maine. She has also exhibited at the Arden Gallery in Boston, The Schmidtberger Fine Arts Gallery in Pennsylvania, The Geras Tousignant Gallery in San Francisco and the Greenhut Gallery in Portland, Maine.

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Oil on Yupo Panel By Kerstin Engman
  • Location: First floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Neuroscience wing

You will find the paintings of Diana Young on the first floor of the hospital. Young remembers being an artist since she was a child, in fact, she has been “making pictures” by painting landscapes in Maine and from her travels throughout the world for nearly 50 years.

Her work leans toward line, direction, force and motion, rather than form and naturalism. For her, an outdoor place is a point of departure rather than a study in nature. She is always looking for “the kernel of a place.”

Diana Young in her studio in Bangor, Maine (photo provided by the artist)

“What makes an artist? Doing art with enthusiasm for many years is the proof. What starts our looking strange may become accepted as beautiful over time and I’m hoping that happens to me. Being an artist could well be one part talent and nine parts desire.”

Young is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited in regional galleries and across artist cooperatives throughout Maine. She continues to create art in her studio located in Bangor, Maine.

Her art can be seen at the Eastport Gallery in person during the summer months (June through September) and online year round. You can see a beautiful collection of her work online and available for purchase by visiting Flood Fine Art.

  • Location: Third floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, General Surgery and Urology Extension Wing

You will find colorful paintings by local artist Jill Hoy on the third floor of the hospital. Hoy’s work focuses on the qualities of Maine light in her plein air oil paintings. Strong composition, rhythm, gesture, pattern, energy, power of place, and soul are primary focal points.

Jill Hoy shares a painting of her home on Deer Isle. (photo credit: Jlynn Frazier)

“I’ve spent my summers in Deer Isle, Maine since I was ten years old. Deer Isle has raised me to be a painter,” said Hoy. Reflecting on the exhibit, she shares: “All of my oil paintings are done outside on location. My work captures both an intimate relationship with nature, along with the movements of wide-open spaces that allow our heart to expand.”

Hoy has exhibited her work extensively in Maine and in locations across the United States. You may have seen her work on the cover of an L.L. Bean catalog or a Down East Magazine publication. Hoy’s work is on display in more than 600 private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe, including The Jill Hoy Gallery, which is open for the season in Stonington, Maine.

  • Location: Second floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Respiratory, Cardiology, and General Surgery wing

You will find contemporary landscape paintings by local artist Nina Jerome on the first floor of the hospital. As a long-time resident in Maine, Jerome finds inspiration for her work in both natural and constructed environments, drawing and painting in series that examine visual variations of place. For her, the painting process conveys her personal direction through the land as she witnesses its light, movement, and changes.

Nina Jerome painting at Great Cranberry Island, (Photo credit Pablo O’Campo)

Jerome spends the warmer months in coastal Maine, a rich visual resource with its undeveloped shoreline and wide-ranging tidal fluctuations. She has also explored sense-of-place in other Maine areas. Jerome has completed residencies on two of her favorite Maine islands – Great Spruce Head Island and Great Cranberry Island – and has created paintings for fourteen public art projects in Maine including a series for the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor.

This exhibit includes paintings dating from 1980 to the present. Notable series presented here are “Quiet Tension” (1995), a record of Jerome’s walks along the rocky shore in Addison, ME, “Altered Landscape” (1986), construction views of the Veterans Remembrance Bridge across the Penobscot River, “Winter Power” (2005), a series depicting the steam plume marking the location of an electricity generating plant along the Penobscot River, “From the Kayak” (2006), images of floating between sea and sky in Addison, ME, and “Homage to the Ocean” (2013), a series that wove words written about climate change into the images of the sea.

  • Kathi Smith & Kristen Strong: June 30 – September 15, 2023
  • Kal Elmore, Nancy Fitch & John Rohman: September 15 – December 15, 2023
  • Evelyn Dunphy: December 15, 2023 – March 29, 2024
  • Philip and Matt Barter: March 29 – June 28, 2024
  • Ed Nadeau: June 28 – September 27, 2024
  • Michelle Billings
  • Robin Birrell
  • Cheryl Coffin
  • Jean Deighan
  • Maureen Egan
  • Shalece Fiack
  • Clyde Folsom
  • Martin Gallant
  • Eddie Harrow
  • JoAnne Houlsen
  • Jill Hoy
  • Nina Jerome
  • Kat Johnson
  • Constance Kilgore
  • Kathy Lena
  • James Linehan
  • LeeAnne Mallonee
  • Katia Mason
  • Dan Miller
  • Mark Nutt
  • Gail Page
  • George Partal
  • Ken Putnam
  • Suzanne Roberts
  • Katie Schaffer
  • Robert Shetterly
  • Rick Tardiff
  • Michelle Walker
  • Wayne Walker
  • Jeff Wahlstrom
  • Kristbjorg Whitney
  • Diana Young

For more information about the St. Joseph Healing Arts Program, please contact us.

(207) 907-1000
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