Department of Art

Please join the Department of Art on November 15 at 5:30pm for The Seance-sorium: An Invitation to Plant Thinking, an event in the Art & Creative Ecologies Series. It is free and open to the public. This collaborative, participatory event will take place on Zoom. Bring a plant, or something that has been part of […]

The visionary composer and sound artist Annea Lockwood will be presenting on November 1 as part of the Intermedia Visiting Artist Lecture Series. When: November 1, 2022 @ 7pm Where: APPE Space, IMRC Center and on Zoom (register in advance here https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdeioqDkrG9Mc9Sp6n0PT9jq4b-RO2H48 

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Each year the Department of Art hosts a professional sculptor as part of the Littlefield Gallery Sculptor-in-Residence Program. This year’s Sculptor-in-Residence will be Mark Pettegrow, UMaine Class of 1981. While on campus October 17-20, Pettegrow will visit students in Associate Professor of Art Greg Ondo’s sculpture studio, deliver a public presentation, and make plans with […]

ART workers, the 2022 Intermedia faculty exhibition, opens August 29 and runs through September 16 at the IMRC Center. A gallery talk will take place on September 13 at 7pm. Featured artists are N. B. Aldrich, Arturo Camacho, Bethany Engstrom, Sheridan Kelley Adams, and Susan Smith.  

On August 24, the Bangor Daily News reported on graduate students in the Department of Art’s Intermedia Programs making art with nanocellulose. See the article here.

The Art & Creative Ecologies Series is a suite of events taking place during the 2022-23 academic year. Funded by a University of Maine Arts Initiative Seed Grant, the series features visiting scholars and artists, as well as panels and workshops, addressing the ways that contemporary art and creative practices engage ecological processes and crises. […]

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Sofia Rivera, an art education and studio art double major, and an art history minor, was profiled and interviewed by UMaine News on June 15. See the profile here.