Department of Art

The Department of Art mourns the loss of longtime UMaine professor of art Michael H. Lewis, who passed away June 27, 2021, after a long illness. He was 79. Please see the university’s announcement here.

Lord Hall Gallery will reopen to the public on Monday, Aug. 17. The current exhibition is Featured Faculty/2020, which features photographs, sculpture, ceramics, paintings, and prints by studio art, art history, and art education faculty members John Eden, Michael Grillo, Susan Groce, Laurie E. Hicks, James Linehan, Ed Nadeau, Gregory Ondo, and Ellen Roberts. The […]

Jill Pelto’s ’15, ’18G watercolor and colored pencil creation Current is Time magazine’s cover for its special July issue that focuses on climate change. Her cover is an artistic rendering of information about climate change. Pelto earned degrees in both studio art and earth and climate sciences. “I hope that my art encourages audiences to […]

With the generous support of the Maine Humanities Council and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as well as the guidance from our community partners, the Art Education students in the Spring 2020 AED 474/574: Topics in Art Education have just completed a video unit of interdisciplinary/intercultural art lessons intended to address LD 295, the Maine law […]

              UMaine art faculty exhibition to open Feb. 17, 2020 Orono, Maine — The Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine presents an exhibition of the rich and varied creative work of eight faculty members who teach in the Department of Art. Featured Faculty / 2020, which runs from […]

From October 4 through November 15, 2019, the Lord Hall Gallery hosted an exhibition, “Framing Maine: Artists’ Perspectives on Place,” in celebration of Maine bicentennial In a celebration of Maine’s upcoming bicentennial, more than 50 works that share a strong connection to — and/or vision of — the state were featured in the exhibition, “Framing […]

FEATURED FACULTY / 2015 AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY DEPARTMENT OF ART FACULTY ILLUSIONS AND REALITY AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF ALAN STUBBS February 6 – March 13, 2015 Reception: Friday, Feb. 6, 5:30-7:00 THE LORD HALL GALLERY University of Maine The Lord Hall Gallery is wheelchair accessible. Monday-Friday 9:00-4:00 Department of Art / […]

Albers & Heirs, an exhibition of the works of Josef Albers, Neil Welliver, and Jane Davis Doggett, will be at the Lord Hall Galleries from 16 June – 18 July.  Curated by Osvaldo Monzon, the exhibit marks a significant occasion for the university in underscoring the importance of the Bauhaus school via Black Mountain College and […]

The Department of Art thanks Dr. David Pariser, Professor of Art Education at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, for his presentation, The Juvenile Work of World-Class Artists, as the inaugural Wyeth Family Heritage Lecture!  Thanks to all those who participated and helped make it such a successful event!   See it documented here at: David Pariser, The Juvenile […]