AUGUSTA SPARKS

Augusta Sparks Farnum is an artist living and working in Brooklin, Maine.

She works with Dr. Hugh Silk, and Dr. Sara Shields, as the art consultant for developing a database and faculty development toolkit to integrate medical humanities into family medicine residency training, at the UMass Chan Medical School. She received her Bachelor’s in Photography from Bard College, a Master’s in Arts in Medicine from University of Florida, a Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine certificate and a MFA in Intermedia from University of Maine. At University of Maine, she initiated use, and teaches workshops with, the Process Development Center’s cellulose nanofiber as an art medium. Augusta came to the University of Maine to serve as a teaching assistant for the Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine program. Prior, Augusta founded the Carnegie Picture Lab, an arts education non-profit, and the social prescription program Arts In Health: First Aid Art Kits for the quarantined population during COVID in Walla Walla, Washington. Recently, she has taught in the community program for Haystack Mountains School of Crafts; exhibited at the Parsonage Gallery in Searsport, Maine and with the Performance Art Initiative in Rockland, Maine; presented at SPACE gallery in Portland, Maine; has been written about in Art New England, published in ArtPlace, and archived in Movement Research’s conversation series.

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