Department of Art

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. […]

Lord Hall Gallery will host a two-person exhibition featuring Anishinaabe Oji-Cree mother/daughter artists Lara Kramer and Ida Baptiste. The show is entitled Ji zoongde’eyaang meaning “to have a strong heart” in Anishnaabemowin. The exhibition will be on view to the public at Lord Hall Gallery from August 26-October 15, 2024. The artists will visit campus in early […]

Proximity, this year’s Intermedia MFA thesis exhibition, opens Friday, May 17. Please join us for the opening reception from 5-7pm at Lord Hall Gallery. The exhibition runs May 17 – July 12. Lord Hall Gallery is open M – F, 9am – 4pm. Free, accessible and open to the public.

Please join the Department of Art’s Intermedia Program in Rockland on Friday, April 26 for two events. in/between/intermedia An exhibition of works from the UMaine Intermedia community  April 26, 5-7 pm 464 Maine Street, Rockland, Maine Threads, a procession and exhibition interweaving multiple feminisms in community, practice, and study April 26, 4:30 pm procession, 5-7 pm […]

The Department of Art’s sculpture program is holding its annual open studio on Friday, April 26, 4-6pm. Please come by the studio (Old Fire Station Building) at 13 Flagstaff Rd. (adjacent to the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot) to view student work.

Please join the Department of Art at Lord Hall Gallery on Friday, April 5, 5-7pm, for the opening reception of the 2024 Student Exhibition and the annual Student Awards Ceremony. Food and refreshments will be available. Free and open to the public. The 2024 Student Exhibition runs April 1-30, 2024.

The Department of Art’s Intermedia Program will host the final artist of this year’s visiting artist program. Gina Siepel will be presenting in-person on Tuesday, March 26 at 7pm in IMRC 104. Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker. Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology, and […]