Department of Art

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, […]

The Department of Art is sad to share the news that Professor Owen Smith passed away on October 14. Please see the university’s announcement here.

Weeds and Wildflowers: Maine Photographs by Matt Smolinsky

Please visit the Lord Hall Gallery website for more information.

UMF Art Gallery’s fall 2021 season opens with ‘Vital Traces’ exhibit by sculptor Samantha Jones