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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Sep 18

UPDATE: Found! Whew!

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our cat, Shark, has escaped from our South Portland home on Bellevue Avenue, on the edge of the Piggery. She is a petite tuxedo cat, about six pounds, with white whiskers. She is approachable but will react better to women than men. No collar, but microchipped. #lostcat #lostcats #maine 2077997324

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Aug 21

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025.

Tonight at University of Southern ME! Hosted by @mainehistory.org and the Osher Map Library.

Reception: 5:30–6:00 p.m.
Panel discussion and book signing: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m.

www.mainehistory.org/events/shoul...

Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025

Several contributors to the new essay collection What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History (UMass Press, 2025) will offer a brief illustr...

www.mainehistory.org

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Aug 20

The new Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is out! The roundtable on curating #womenartists is required reading for #curators and other #museumpeople. It was also a pleasure to edit pieces by Virginia Girard, Larry Silver, and Angela Jager. #arthistory #museums jhna.org/issues/vol-1...

Volume 17: Issue 1 (2025) - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

jhna.org

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please sign the petition to support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News, to include staff at the Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Brunswick Times Record, Portland Press Herald, and Morning Sentinel within the News Guild of Maine. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Maine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effort

Staff have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board and are asking the parent company of the Press Herald and other newspapers to recognize nearly 50 additional employees as part of th...

www.pressherald.com

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Jul 28

"These nudes...do not bear the weight of the centuries that came before them. They are more free, less inhibited, than their predecessors."

My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on "A Fountain of Forms" at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art: bit.ly/40DOwHE

A Fountain of Forms: The Rise Of The American Woman Sculptor, 1910-1929 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

GREENSBURG, PENN. — This year, 2025, is the “Year of the Woman” at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Blockbusters are planned (and some have already opened) on Cecilia Beaux, Berenice Abbott an...

www.antiquesandthearts.com

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Jul 2

#Mainers, know and remember this.

koolkankat.bsky.social @koolkankat.bsky.social · Jul 2

... It was all performative. Murkowski isn't up for re-election until 2028, so her vote was needed. Collins is up for re-election in 2026 and her seat is needed by Republicans so she was allowed to vote no on the bill. To make Collins look like a moderate who isn't afraid to buck her party. All BS/2

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Jun 30

Once upon a time, a #Maine mom put the fear of God into the staff at the @newyorker.com. @rayrouthier.bsky.social on how a strongly worded letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother was the genesis of the magazine's #factchecking department. www.pressherald.com?p=7469341&uu...

The New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s mother

The magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother, pointing out several errors in a story abou...

www.pressherald.com

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · Jun 19

Some reading for your #Juneteenth —the new issue of #JournalPanorama is out, with features on Dave the Potter, Edmonia Lewis, Blackness in the Ashcan school, and more. #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #AfricanAmericanArt @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social

Screenshot of website for Panorama, Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 29

"of teaching commercial art & illustration as well as painting & sculpture and exhibiting works like Ruth Morley’s costume designs & Steven Cartoccio’s figurine of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. alongside portraits by Will Barnet & seascapes by Winslow Homer.”

📷Steven Cartoccio/Art Students League NY

Gilded statue of a man in sunglasses and hip-hop garb seated on a throne and wearing a crown. One foot is up on a giant stack of dollar bills, and his left arm holds a scepter-like cane.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 29

"This philosophy, historically and today, extends beyond women to include queer artists, people of color and international students, and, moreover, that it extends beyond human demographics. The League also has a history of dismantling barriers between art genres...

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 29

“The League’s commitment to inclusivity, its willingness to break boundaries, is clearly one of its superpowers" My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on the capstone 150th anniversary show at the Art Students League of New York.
bit.ly/4dzS4Qq

Shaping American Art: A Celebration Of The Art Students League Of New York At 150 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

NEW YORK CITY — The Art Students League is an unusual name for an art school, when you think about it. The word “league” usually refers to a diplomatic entity (League of Nations), or a sports organiza...

bit.ly

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

I also want to note that as a Catholic I agree that actions matter, not just belief. To that end I have to look at my own words and actions in this thread and discern where I've gone so wrong that it came to this point. Again, I apologize for it.

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

I hear this and don't deny it. I definitely grew up in a Christian-dominated environment. But for what it's worth I did not grow up *as* a Christian and often felt some of the things you are describing. It's been a complicated journey. I appreciate you taking the time to engage with me on this.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

Do you have more authority than me? I thought we were just people talking.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

OK, I didn't say that at all, but I am sorry that you have been hurt, and I wish you well.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

That's all I've got, in the end.

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

I acknowledge that I see it through a Christian lens, but doesn't that follow? I do not view it as an example of Judenhass but I do understand how it is possible to.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

You asked why I'm privileging Jesus's opinion over Jewish sources. I mean, I'm Christian. I privilege his opinion in most things. Plus as far as I know there is no Jewish retelling of the Temple story; it only appears in Christian scripture

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

Nice intolerance badge, sport.

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

Respectfully, I believe this is a misinterpretation.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

I have actually really enjoyed the conversation, which reminds me of Twitter before it sucked. I appreciate your perspectives.

Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

The waters have gotten very muddied here as we both practice exegesis and discuss the historical moment in which Christianity emerged.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

OK. I will say for the record that I do not see Christianity as replacement for Judaism, that Jews are the real Jews, and that I fully acknowledge the bible is not historical fact.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · May 24

I don't really disagree with you, though personally I find the teachings of Jesus to be a moment of clarity within it. It's okay for us to disagree.