The Shag represents the art, films, music and words of Shana Barry, Bang-Bangs and Crash Barry.
Shana is a sculptor-painter-seamstress-singer-songwriter
who started making art by sewing her first doll when she was four and has been creating non-stop since. Her latest project is a series of dolls in honor of President Obama. In February 2009, she released a family album, A Pink Whale and a Very Tall Tree.
Bang-Bangs is a conceptual artist and filmmaker (and Shana’s brother-in-law) under surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security. Watch his films.
Crash Barry makes documentaries about his brother, Bang-Bangs, and writes One Maniac’s Meat, a monthly column for The Bollard, a Portland, Maine news magazine. Read the column.
The Shag started as a physical art gallery representing eight Maine contemporary artists: Patrick Corrigan, Amy Ray, Jennifer Gardiner, Meghan Conley, Christopher Keister, Arthur Cadieux, Shana Barry and Bang-Bangs. The Shag flew up, up and away from it’s Down East Maine storefront, to it’s new home on the world-wide web.
Shag is a nickname for the cormorant, a sea bird commonly seen at the Maine coast.
Hi,Miss you guys.
AC
Eastport not the same without the both of you.
Arthur
Hey AC! You’re sweet!
How are the both of you doing. It’s been a ok summer, and a
new gallery in town, called the breakwater gallery did a good
job. However, I miss your spirit.
AC