Amy Stacey Curtis Friday, June 19 at 7pm 2026

Amy Stacey Curtis was a practicing installation artist widely recognized and awarded for an 18-year project presented throughout nine abandoned Maine mills. Soon after completing this ambitious opus, her brain was attacked. For 22 months, Amy would experience a nonstop psychosis soon accompanied by a debilitating head-to-toe loss of muscle control, requiring the use of a wheelchair, severely impacting her speech, and cutting her off from her community. After two psychiatric wards, eight antipsychotic drugs, and 15 months of misdiagnosing doctors, it was finally determined that Amy’s brain was injured by past Lyme disease she never knew she had.

The 2025 winner of Maine’s Got Talent, Amy learns five songs weekly on her ukulele, a self-prescribed music therapy helping her speech after a six-year progression from psychosis and wheelchair, to walker, to cane, back to her feet. Her recent memoir How My Brain Saved My Life Twice, chronicles her life before and after her devastating injury. Amy shares her story and cover songs on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, where one of her videos has over 600K views. To access all of Amy’s publications, art, and music, please visit her website.