Lord Hall Gallery to display work by two Port Clyde artists

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

July 20, 2017 Arts, Outreach

This summer, the Lord Hall Gallery on the University of Maine campus will host exhibitions by two of Maine’s leading artists, both of whom live in Port Clyde.

The Susan Groce and Antonia Small exhibits will be on display from July 24 through Sept. 22. A free public reception for the artists will be held from 5:30–7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15 in the Lord Hall Gallery.

“Susan Groce: Prints and Drawings” will present the work of Groce, a professor of art at UMaine.

Both her small- and large-scale images speak to the nature of space and the environment. Through her art, Groce makes visible the complexity and impermanence of the world and “how through environmental time, elemental forces such as wind, water, fire, as well as human activity, can dramatically alter our surroundings.” She is particularly interested in how such changes often exist in the margins of our awareness.

“Antonia Small: Photographs” is a selection of images related to the fishing and lobstering cultures of Maine’s coast.

The project began in 2009 as an effort to document the ground fishermen who worked to save their fishery through the development of the first community-supported fishery (CSF) in the country. The exhibition includes more than 30 black-and-white photographs from Port Clyde and Monhegan, making visible the places, people and processes that make up the fishing and lobstering cultures of Maine. The exhibition includes many of the images from Small’s recent book, “Caught: time. place. fish.” co-written with Glen Libby.

Both exhibitions are free and open to the public. Lord Hall Gallery is open 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday through Friday and is wheelchair accessible.