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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 […]

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.