Briar Pelletier, a University of Maine art history major from Lewiston, Maine, will study this spring at Hirosaki University in Aomori, Japan to learn about cross-cultural perspectives in contemporary Japanese woodblock printing. While abroad, she will be working on her capstone thesis “Art as Ambassadorship,” as well as assisting in a woodblock print exchange between read more Briar Pelletier: Exploring art from Maine to Japan