About
“My interdisciplinary practice spans writing, experimental filmmaking, and live performance and is often psychedelic, autobiographical and collaborative. As a writer, I’m interested in using genre (erotica, fantasy, self help, etc.) to access greater truths. My films are often a mix of formal and emotional investigation. As a mother and an artist, I tend to combine ‘home movies’ and studio experiments to create video poems, using the editing process to develop rhythm and find continuous threads in disparate imagery. My performance work combines dance, light and shadow, and physical materials to explore the relationship of internal to external landscapes.”
Amelia Garretson-Persans is an interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Maine. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University in Montreal in 2008 and her MFA from the Maine College of Art & Design in Portland, ME in 2016. Her film, writing, and theatrical work has received awards and recognition, including a Critics Choice Award in 2025 from the PortFringe Festival for her original play, A Tincture of Time, and a Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing in 2023 for her very handsome book, Where the Avonley Seed Falls. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including two Kindling Funds, and multiple Maine Arts Commission grants. She has shown work in Maine, New York, Tennessee, Quebec and elsewhere. Her residencies include the Wedding Cake House Residency in Providence, RI, 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 lives and teaches in Portland, ME with her two terrific kids, Paul and Lily.