Department of Art

The Department of Art and the Department of English are pleased to host Elizabeth Atterbury & Anna Hepler on Tuesday, April 15. The artists will deliver a presentation at 5pm in Neville Hall 108. A reception will follow. Hepler & Atterbury’s new work Cipher was permanently installed in Neville Hall in 2024. It was commissioned […]

Lord Hall Gallery is proud to host the Department of Art’s 2025 Student Exhibition. This show highlights diverse artwork made by students at UMaine who have taken undergraduate courses in foundational studies and media-specific coursework in Painting, Ceramics, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Photography, and Sculpture. Students who were enrolled in a department course […]

As the final component of her residency, Perrin will produce a unique work of art for permanent display on the University of Maine campus. For more about the Littlefield Gallery Sculptor-in-Residence program, see here. Also visit the Littlefield Gallery website here.

Contact Graduate Coordinator Susan Smith for more information.

The University of Maine’s Lord Hall Gallery presents ORBITS, an exhibition featuring the work of three Maine-based artists who are invested in material re-use and sustainability: Tom Jessen, Isabelle Maschal O’Donnell, and Ian Trask from February 3 – March 14, 2025. A reception will be held on February 7, 2025 from 5-7pm. During the reception, […]

Octophonic Soundscape CompositionWednesdays, 1:30-4:00pmJanuary 8-April 2, 2025IMRC 103Free and open to UMaine students, faculty & staff This spring semester, internationally renowned Canadian composer Barry Truax, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, is offering a free online course in octophonic (8-channel) soundscape composition. The course surveys the theory, history, and emerging practice of soundscape composition. The […]

The 2024 senior capstone exhibition, Mutual Threads, opens Friday, November 15 and runs through January 20, 2025. The exhibition features work by Studio Art B.A. and B.F.A. seniors. Please join the department for the opening reception on Friday, November 15, 5-7pm. There will be food, drink, and music. Free and open to the public.

Bethany Engstrom, adjunct assistant professor of art, is featured in an exhibition at the UMaine-Farmington Art Gallery. Titled Bethany Engstrom: In the Works, the exhibition opens October 31. A reception will be held 4-7pm at the UMF Art Gallery. More information is here: https://www.artgalleryumf.org/beth-engstrom_in-the-works.

The artist Constantina Zavitsanos will be speaking on Tuesday, October 29 @ 7pm as part of the Intermedia Program’s Visiting Artist Series. The event will be in Room 104 in the IMRC. Free and open to the public.

The Department of Art announces two events with artists Lara Kramer and Ida Baptiste. Anishinaabe Oji-Cree artists Ida Baptiste and Lara Kramer bring forward their relational practices through generations to express and represent embodied experiences like memory, loss, and reclamation. Lara Kramer will present an artist lecture in IMRC 104 on October 1st at 7pm. […]