97th Annual Commencement May 11 at 2 p.m. Merrill Auditorium Maine College of Art will hold a commencement ceremony for students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. The commencement speaker is artist Fred Wilson. Wilson lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase in 1976 and his work of the last two decades, rearranging and reinterpreting museum collections, has been widely shown and discussed. Profiling him for their Art: 21 series, PBS noted that his installations “question – and force – the view to question how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express.” Wilson, who has worked extensively with the MFA program as a visiting artist at the College, will receive an Honorary Degree. A second Honorary Degree will be awarded to Sarwar Khan. Khan represents the international nongovernmental organization Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) and their US counterpart, a nonprofit organization called Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR). Together they work to provide humanitarian relief, education, and jobs for impoverished Merasi residents of the state of Rajasthan. The Merasi, which literally means “keepers of the story,” are musicians and storytellers with a tradition dating back centuries. They will perform at the commencement ceremony. 97th Annual Commencement May 11 at 2 p.m., Merrill Auditorium Maine College of Art held its commencement ceremony for students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. The commencement speaker was artist Fred Wilson. Wilson lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase in 1976 and his work of the last two decades, rearranging and reinterpreting museum collections, has been widely shown and discussed. Profiling him for their Art: 21 series, PBS noted that his installations “question – and force – the view to question how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express.” Wilson, who has worked extensively with the MFA program as a visiting artist at the College, will receive an Honorary Degree. A second Honorary Degree was awarded to Sarwar Khan. Khan represents the international nongovernmental organization Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) and their US counterpart, a nonprofit organization called Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR). Together they work to provide humanitarian relief, education, and jobs for impoverished Merasi residents of the state of Rajasthan. The Merasi, which literally means “keepers of the story,” are musicians and storytellers with a tradition dating back centuries. They performed at the commencement ceremony. 97th Annual Commencement May 11 at 2 p.m., Merrill Auditorium Maine College of Art held its commencement ceremony for students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. The commencement speaker was artist Fred Wilson. Wilson lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase in 1976 and his work of the last two decades, rearranging and reinterpreting museum collections, has been widely shown and discussed. Profiling him for their Art: 21 series, PBS noted that his installations “question – and force – the view to question how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express.” Wilson, who has worked extensively with the MFA program as a visiting artist at the College, will receive an Honorary Degree. A second Honorary Degree was awarded to Sarwar Khan. Khan represents the international nongovernmental organization Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) and their US counterpart, a nonprofit organization called Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR). Together they work to provide humanitarian relief, education, and jobs for impoverished Merasi residents of the state of Rajasthan. The Merasi, which literally means “keepers of the story,” are musicians and storytellers with a tradition dating back centuries. They performed at the commencement ceremony.

97th Annual Commencement May 11 at 2 p.m., Merrill Auditorium Maine College of Art held its commencement ceremony for students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. The commencement speaker was artist Fred Wilson. Wilson lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from SUNY/Purchase in 1976 and his work of the last two decades, rearranging and reinterpreting museum collections, has been widely shown and discussed. Profiling him for their Art: 21 series, PBS noted that his installations “question – and force – the view to question how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and the language of display and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express.” Wilson, who has worked extensively with the MFA program as a visiting artist at the College, will receive an Honorary Degree. A second Honorary Degree was awarded to Sarwar Khan. Khan represents the international nongovernmental organization Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) and their US counterpart, a nonprofit organization called Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR). Together they work to provide humanitarian relief, education, and jobs for impoverished Merasi residents of the state of Rajasthan. The Merasi, which literally means “keepers of the story,” are musicians and storytellers with a tradition dating back centuries. They performed at the commencement ceremony.