Beginning as graphic designer for Preview! Magazine, a weekly arts publication,over 19 years, Maureen Farr has held various positions until becoming production manager for three monthly fisheries newspapers. She held that position for five years prior to starting Mozelle! Studio, her own graphic design business, in January, 1999.

During the past eight years, she has worked with a broad range of clients and projects, including the design of business cards, promotional postcards for artists and galleries, newsletters, brochures, and catalogs, as well as books for publishers and self-publishing authors – a part of the business that she finds most rewarding.

In June 2000, she started Arts Guide, her own publication, an annual guide to the arts in Downeast Maine. Originally intended to focus specifically on the Deer Isle, Stonington and the towns on the Blue Hill Peninsula, its scope has broadened over the ensuing years to include Ellsworth, Bar Harbor, and the Schoodic Loop: Hancock, Sullivan, Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor, with Castine coming onboard in 2008.

Also a visual artist, she works mostly in encaustic and mixed media, incorporating found objects and other ephemera she picks up along the road of life. She also works with alternative photographic processes including Polaroid transfer and emulsion lift, as well as acrylic, pastels, and funky jewelry. She occasionally offers art classes in her Deer Isle studio. You can visit her website to see more of her work.

She has lived on Deer Isle, Maine for over 12 years, in an eccentric old house built in 1842. When she isn’t working at graphic and web design, painting in her studio or teaching classes, she might be found sailing the skies above her favorite mountain in a paraglider.