Stephen Burt's work on display at Portland's Victoria Mansion

Art work by Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative and Fine Arts Stephen Burt will be on display at the Victoria Mansion in Portland from March 30 - April 21, 2012.

Burt is one of eight local artists in the exhibition titled "Victoria's Wonderama." They've created new work that builds on the wonder and fantasy of the Victoria Mansion and the Victorian culture that was prevalent when the house was built in the late 1850s. Burt takes inspiration from cut paper silhouettes popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and the art of shadow puppets to create a landscape in a translucent window screen.

Admission to the Victoria Mansion is $10, although during the First Friday Art Walk on April 6th, admission is $5. The Victoria Mansion remains one of America's finest surviving examples of architecture and interior design from that period.

Read more about the exhibition in a March 29th Portland Press Herald story.

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