Episode 3

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12th May 2025

Raquel P. Miller

Today we will hear from Raquel P Miller who was a Black Seed Studio Resident in January 2024 at Indigo Arts Alliance. Born and adopted from Cuenca, Ecuador, Raquel is an emerging artist from Biddeford, Maine. From painting to drawing, her work is focused on the confrontations and expressions of identity, experiences, and emotions. She was the recipient of a 2022 BIPOC Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and in 2023 was awarded a residency at SPACE Gallery’s Residency Room in Portland, Maine. Her work has been displayed online, in New York at Collarworks (Troy), Deanna Evans Projects (NYC), SOIL Gallery (Seattle)and throughout Southern Maine at the Harlow, the Buoy Gallery, New System Exhibitions, Alice Gauvin Gallery, and Engine.

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Voices + Visions: The Podcast
Indigo Arts Alliance Presents Voices + Visions: The Podcast
An artist talk series that features Indigo Arts Alliance's alumni artists in residence, highlighting their similarities, creative intersections and distinct voices.

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Florence S. Edwards DDS, has been a practicing dentist for almost 2 decades including time served as a Captain in the US Army. She is a Howard University College of Dentistry graduate and a Maine resident since childhood. Her love of Maine, seafood and oyster culture has lead her to co-owning and co-farming Indigo Oyster Company. Sign up for IOC's newsletter at https://www.indigo-oysters.com/

Flo is an active member of her community; she serves on the Board of Directors of The Third Place and is a board member of Friends of Casco Bay. Podcasting grew out of her volunteer work at the University of Southern Maine's WMPG radio station and she organizes a networking happy hour for Mainers of Color, called Fourth Friday. In 2024 Fourth Friday became a recipient of a Maine Community Foundations grant.