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Alice Jones

Alice is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine. She earned her BA in Visual Arts from Bowdoin College in 2017, and in 2018 she co-founded New System Exhibitions, a project space devoted to providing solo shows to emerging and mid-career artists. She founded and manages the Kids’ Table Goat Collective, which raises a small herd of dairy goats in Freeport.



Born and raised in eastern Tennessee, she holds dear the untamed mountain-laurel woods with their tumbling creeks and oppressive humidity, and the influences of missing home prevail in her work. In her paintings, she explores relationships to place and landscape through a lens of memory and emotion in an ongoing attempt to understand what provides grounding in life.




What Does the Future Hold for Maine's Snowshoe Factory?

Brunswick artist John Bisbee interviews the Lights Out team at their new location, 10 Tannery Street, Norway, Maine to learn more about why they are dedicated to supporting artists and the Maine arts community and how you can help bring their vision to life.



Lights Out (Daniel Sipe, Reed Mclean, and Karle Woods) has found its new home at 10 Tannery Street, Norway, Maine. Purchased in February of 2022, we immediately began working to renovate and restore the old snowshoe factory, working to build an evolving hotspot of local collaboration and statewide coordination. This new location will soon be home to dozens of small businesses, local organizations, artists, makers, and educators.


Please consider supporting this project with a monthly contribution at


The buildings are 15,000 square feet combined and sit on almost a full acre in downtown Norway.


There are four zones planned for the factory renovation and restoration, each with its own use. In the historic factory building, the first floor will be dedicated to shared office and studio space. A multi-purpose dance studio will take up the second floor. The daylight basement will be dedicated to a community makerspace and tool library. The newer warehouse building, built in the 1970’s, will become a gallery and event space.


With the generous help of dozens of volunteers and community members, we have cleared out both buildings, made structural repairs, and lifted and reinforced the foundation. These necessary fixes ensure that Lights Out’s new home will serve the community for years to come.


For more information, visit our website at https://www.lightsoutgallery.org/


Michel Droge

Michel Droge is a painter whose work engages with the environment and ideas of multi-species, non-binary, and entangled life systems. Inspired by oceans and land, mapping, and environmental research, their abstract paintings and drawings visually explore vulnerable and under-represented environmental areas to promote awareness and conservation, unravel existing systems and make way for emerging new ones. They view environmental research and philosophy through a queer and eco-feminist lens.



Michel's recent work visually explores and investigates the effects of deep-sea mining on the ocean and the world’s ecosystems. Since May of 2021, Michel has been a Visiting Artist in Residence at Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Studies in East Boothbay, Maine, meeting regularly with Dr. Beth Orcutt, a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Orcutt studies microbial life in deep-sea environments and the effects of deep-sea mining on the ocean’s ecosystems. The work here is informed by these sublime environments, mysterious life forms, uncharted territories, and conversations about the risks of human impact in these rarely seen primordial places.





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