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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.

Anastasia Lipp, who is pursuing a BA in Studio Art and a minor in psychology, has been awarded the prestigious Lunder Summer Internship in Studio Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Supported by the Lunder Foundation, the needs-based paid internship is offered to an outstanding student who is a resident of the state […]

The Bangor Daily News reported that the Art Education Program received a President’s Campus Leadership Award. “The President’s Campus Leadership Award recognizes a student organization or campus department at each Maine Campus Compact member institution for its contributions to community service-learning and civic engagement efforts on their campus. The organization cited a project by art […]