Paula Gerstenblatt is an artist and Professor of Social Work at, University of Southern Maine. She is a pioneer in arts-based research in social work and maintains a studio practice focusing on painting, drawing, and collage. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants for her arts-based community work in Texas, and recently as part of MEGLC, an Onion Foundation grant to support a two-person exhibit with Jan Piribeck at the Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME, and a two-day retreat focused on land preservation and clean energy on Sears Island. The Maine Jewish Museum in Portland, ME, and the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center featured exhibitions of her collage portraits. As part of Maine-Greenland Collaborations, Dr. Gerstenblatt led community-based collage workshops at the Long Island, ME Community Center (USA), the Qaqortoq Museum, and Qassiarsuk in South Greenland. Additionally, she contributes her expertise in qualitative research and phenomenology to the project.

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