About
“I work in a variety of narrative forms, including filmmaking, installation and writing. I’m interested in the ways stories can reveal and hide the truth of our lives. My work often centers on heroines caught between the act of writing and being written.”
Amelia Garretson-Persans is an interdisciplinary artist based in southern Maine. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University in Montreal and her MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, ME. She has shown work in Maine, New York, Tennessee, Quebec and elsewhere. Her residencies include the Digital Narratives residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, the Jenny Family Residency in Nova Scotia and the Stephen Pace House in Maine.
She is passionate about creative collaboration and community engagement and helped produce dozens of short films by directors with disabilities while at Bomb Diggity Arts (2014-2022) as well as a dynamic slate of public programming. In 2018 she co-created the In Her Kitchen series which partners Maine College of Art & Design students with immigrant chefs from In Her Presence to create visually engaging recipe videos and elevate the voices of immigrant women.
She is currently at work on a feature-length, psychedelic art film, based on her experiences in the hospital caring for her child. She lives in South Portland with her family.