Department of Art

On Saturday, April 16 the Department of Art, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and the UMaine Foundation were delighted to host members of the Goos family to formally dedicate the Goos Family Studio, the department’s newly-renovated ceramics facility in York Village. Sam Goos, M.D., Sarah Goos, and Ariel Goos ’19 were in attendance.

On April 28, 2022, Greg Ondo, associate professor of art, and Sam Hoey, sculpture studio technician, participated in The SESAME Colloquium, hosted by Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Ondo and Hoey joined Justin Dimmel, assistant professor of mathematics education and instructional technology at the University of Maine, […]

Students in the University of Maine Art Education Community Outreach (UMAECO) course, AED 474: Topics in Art Education, successfully completed several projects. The objective this year was to bring awareness to the Blue Hill Heritage Trust’s endeavors, through restorative ecology, to help heal the understory of the recently conserved Surry Forest. The Surry Forest project […]

From the Studio: 2022 Student Exhibition April 8 – 29, 2022 Mark your calendar! The opening reception for this year’s student exhibition at Lord Hall Gallery is Friday, April 8 @ 5:30pm. The department’s annual awards ceremony will be held that evening as well. From the Studio will run through April 29.

To learn more about this spring’s ArtWorks! program, click here.

Students in UMaine’s Art Education program conducted a three-hour workshop with students from Orono High School on March 22, 2022. The Art Education students helped the Orono students produce relief prints for a cookbook to be sold by the Blue Hill Heritage Trust. The cookbook will have recipes for the plants that are being seeded […]

Celeste Roberge, Professor Emerita of Sculpture, University of Florida, is this year’s Littlefield Gallery Sculptor-in-Residence in the Department of Art. She will give a public talk titled “Moving Thoughts Through Objects” in Lord Hall 100 on March 1, 2022 at 5:15pm.

The Department of Art is pleased to announce that this year’s faculty exhibition, Faculty 2022, will run February 11 – March 18 in Lord Hall Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Susan Smith and features works by Susan Groce, James Linehan, Ed Nadeau, Greg Ondo, and Ellen Roberts, as well as artwork by the late […]

Because of safety concerns having to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, UMaine’s Art Education students created a virtual ArtWorks! exhibition rather than inviting family and friends to campus for the traditional reception. Please see the virtual exhibition here. The Art Education Program will be offering another session of the ArtWorks! program in the spring 2022 […]

As part of a collaboration with the Bangor Land Trust, the Maine Humanities Council and the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, art education students at the University of Maine are helping to improve food security for humans and wildlife in Maine by producing outreach materials for a project that is introducing native berry, nut, […]