{"id":20420,"date":"2021-08-25T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20420"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:35:57","slug":"from-meca-to-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/from-meca-to-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"From MECA to Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e2e2e2&amp;d=september2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=31&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A day in the life of four\u00a0<b>Maine College of Art<\/b>\u00a0alumni who&#8217;ve catapulted to\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>New York&#8217;s art mecca\u00a0<\/b>to catch a rising star.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>By Gwen Thompson<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Sage Lewis &#8217;04<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;New Yorkers\u00a0have been wining and dining streetside in their puffer coats, which in terms of grit and perseverance reminds me of living in\u00a0<b>Maine,<\/b>&#8221; says Sage Lewis, a close observer of her new world. &#8220;I moved to\u00a0<b>Brooklyn<\/b>\u00a0in 2018, and the hardest thing to adjust to here is that it doesn&#8217;t get cooler in the evenings during the summer. My former roommate moved out, but we meet up to do outdoor yoga in\u00a0<b>Fort Greene Park<\/b>\u00a0every Saturday, then hit the farmer&#8217;s market. I decided not to post for a new roommate for the time being and turn the spare room into my studio space so I don&#8217;t need to rent a separate studio.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Lessons Learned Navigating the City<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Survival skills? Carrying an extra cardigan is a waste of valuable space in my bag! You need to carry snacks and know where the good bathrooms are. And when you start to get that glazed look in your eyes running errands, get thee to the subway home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I have two cats and a full-time job as a Client Services Manager for an art logistics company,\u00a0<b>Atelier Fine Art Services<\/b>. Many of my clients are museums we work with to coordinate the packing, crating, and transport of exhibition loans. Thankfully, I don&#8217;t need to work a second job. I&#8217;ve gone that route at other times in my life, but for me the stability and structure of consistent daily work is helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"MECA\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MECA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine College of Art graduates pursue artistic careers in New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20458,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions\/20458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}