Augusta Sparks Farnum is an artist living and working in Brooklin, Maine. She received her Bachelor’s in Photography from Bard College, a Master’s in Arts in Medicine from University of Florida, and is finishing her MFA in Intermedia from University of Maine. The landscape, edge effect, and non-linear storytelling are essential elements that run throughout her work, which is influenced by photography. At University of Maine, Farnum initiated use of the Process Development Center’s cellulose nanofiber as an art medium, and served as teaching assistant for the Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine program. 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 taught in the community program for Haystack Mountains School of Crafts; exhibited at the Parsonage Gallery in Searsport, Maine; presented at SPACE gallery in Portland, Maine; has been written about in Art New England and published in ArtPlace.
