Kate Hassett

Rock City Coffee Roastery

Posted in photography by katehassett on February 3, 2010

Patrick Reilley owns and runs Rock City Coffee with his partner Susanne Ward. Here Patrick is releasing the beans after roasting! This was a French Roast batch.

GALLERY SHOW!

Posted in announcement, photography by katehassett on January 31, 2010

For the month of February, I am the featured artist in the Good Tern cafe gallery. Come look at my show! Below is my artist’s statement that’s hanging in the gallery with the photos. There are 10 frames in all.

Cow -Themed Catharsis

I have loved cows since I was two years old. Growing up next door to a retired dairy farmer in Somerville, Maine, I spent hours roaming fields with the cows that the farmer boarded for other dairymen. My old neighbor’s name is Don Hewett, but I called him Tractor. No matter how many times my parents told me it was rude, the name made sense to me because it seemed he spent most of his time riding old John Deere tractors. The name has stuck. Tractor is now 87 years old, and we are still close friends. He is still Tractor. And I still want to spend every moment of the day with cows.

The cows in these photos belonged to another dairy farming friend of mine, Wayne Cunningham. I’ve worked off and on for Wayne milking cows since I was in 8th grade. I bought my first pet cow from him when I was in 6th grade and resold her to Wayne when I was in 8th grade.

The cows pictured in this series are from Wayne’s most recent herd, which was sold in the summer of 2009 due to the economic situation and a very poor haying season. Over 80 of the bovine girls were sent to slaughter in Pennsylvania with funding coming from a dairy farming cooperative called Cooperatives Working Together. (Their website is www.cwt.coop.)   I urge everyone to research this subject. Having been personally attached and connected to the cows, I found this financing of mass slaughter traumatizing. I hope my photos convey my love for these creatures as well as reveal the intelligence I believe they possess as a species.


I became interested in photography when I took a black and white photo class with Ken Martin while a student at Medomak Valley High School. I discovered digital when my high school Humanities teacher and mentor, Chuck Boothby, let me borrow his digital SLR camera. In college I took only one photography class while I explored other media, but I still carried my camera with me everywhere. Most recently I did a semester at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland where I spent three months photographing Joe Miller, a homeless man bound to a wheelchair, with a place on the sex offender registry, a tendency to dress in women’s clothing, and a long history of mental illness. During this time I also did a shorter documentary on the Short-nosed Sturgeon population in the Penobscot River.

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Black Crow Bakery

Posted in Soundslides, photography by katehassett on January 26, 2010

Mark Mickalide owns Black Crow Bakery in Litchfield, ME and bakes bread 5 days a week in a bakery wedged between his house and the barn. He’s been creating bread in this location for 20 years. He also makes the bread for communion at The Greek Orthodox Church  of the Holy Trinity in Lewiston, ME. (Click the photo to see slideshow)

White Orchard Farm

Posted in Soundslides, photography by katehassett on January 19, 2010

Cecil Linscott and Ann Wilson milk 14 Jersey cows at their farm in Franfort, Maine. They deliver their raw milk and yogurt to co-ops and markets in Rockland, Belfast, Bangor and around Frankfort. Click the photo to see a slideshow glimpse of their operation.

Heiwa Tofu

Posted in Soundslides, photography by katehassett on January 14, 2010

Heiwa Tofu in Camden, Maine is owned and operated by Jeff and Maho. Visit their website for more information on their business and click the photo above to experience the morning I spent in their mini-factory.

Poet Project with Lisa

Posted in Sewing, announcement by katehassett on January 13, 2010

My Side of Sewing

http://www.pplp.org/wywwproject.htm

Lisa's Side of Writing

check out my new blog

Posted in Uncategorized by katehassett on January 6, 2010

Felted Bowls

Posted in Uncategorized by katehassett on January 5, 2010

Felted bowls. I’ve started making TALLER ones, standing at about 8 inches. The smaller bowls (like the green one in these photos) are roughly 5 inches high.

Laminated Clutch with Lots o’ Pockets

Posted in Sewing by katehassett on January 5, 2010

Snap closure, multiple card slots and 3 large pockets for paper money and a checkbook.


Laminated fabric…takes about 3 hours to make. I’m hoping to sell these for about $25-$30, depending on the fabric used.

Autumnal Totes

Posted in Sewing, photography by katehassett on November 23, 2009

The psychedelic purple bag is a small lunch bag sized version of the bigger totes. Can fit a yogurt, apple, juice box, sandwich box and maybe a carrot too. The bigger totes are all purpose grocery/papers and books/purse type bags.