A faculty fellow in studio art at Colby, Spaien also teaches at Maine College of Art. She has taught at the University of Southern Maine, the University of Maine Augusta and Haystack School of Arts and Crafts. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine in 1980 and her M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute in 1987. Spaien resides in South Portland with her husband and daughter. Also on exhibit at the museum is the Joan Whitney Payson Collection .
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