Arts

UMaine International Dance Festival returns Feb. 11

The University of Maine will hold the 2023 International Dance Festival on Feb. 11 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The annual event will showcase traditional music, dance and costumes from around the world that are representative of the diverse student body at UMaine. The two shows, which are free and open to the […]

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2023 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition opens Feb. 3 in Lord Hall

The University of Maine’s Department of Art will host its 2023 Faculty Exhibition from Feb. 3–March 17.  The exhibition includes art by faculty from UMaine’s Department of Art and Intermedia Programs, including N.B. Aldrich, Diana Baumbach, Susan Camp, Tim Conte, Sam Jones, Robert Pollien, Susan L. Smith, Matt Smolinsky and Giles Timms. A diverse range […]

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A photo of Chanthu Millay

Chanthu Millay: Expressing an exceptional life through art

Chanthu Millay’s art is raw and intimate: a technicolor self-portrait in painstaking detail, a metal sculpture comprised of pieces of her old prosthetic leg, a ceramic sculpture depicting the emotions she experienced as her family’s lone survivor of the violent Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.   Millay’s art wasn’t always so personal. Her education at the […]

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Zenith Ensemble performing at UMaine Feb. 4

The Zenith Ensemble, a chamber music group that holds concerts throughout Northern New England, will perform at 3 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Minsky Recital Hall is in the Class of 1944 Hall. The event, hosted by the Collins Center for the Arts, will feature eight singers from the ensemble, including co-founder and co-artistic director […]

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Penobscot Marine Museum exhibits two shows at the UMaine Hutchinson Center

Two Penobscot Marine Museum photography exhibits — “Up River: Selections From The Captain Bill Abbott Collection” and “20 Best” — are on display at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast through May 31. The show is free and open to the public, 8 a.m.–4:30 […]

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PenBay Pilot boosts UMaine Hutchinson Center exhibit

The Penobscot Bay Pilot highlighted that the Penobscot Marine Museum has two photography exhibits — “Up River: Selections From The Captain Bill Abbott Collection” and “20 Best” — on display at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast through May 31. The show is free […]

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BDN boosts one-woman show performance at UMaine

The Bangor Daily News shared information about the performance of a one-woman show by Vicki Summers, a Portland actress who turned her maternal grandmother’s life story into a one-woman play, “Bella, an Immigrant’s Tale.” It will be performed for free at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Minsky Recital Hall. Derek Michaud, UMaine’s coordinator of religious […]

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The Atlantic features a conversation with Talty

The Atlantic featured a conversation with Morgan Talty, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, about his debut novel “Night of the Living Rez.” “I find that mentoring and editing and working with other writers is rejuvenating for me. I have to do it. It charges my batteries for the creative work. I’m […]

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BDN notes Pratt participation in Bangor Book Fair

The Bangor Daily News noted that Bruce Pratt, a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Maine, will participate in the Bangor Area Maine Authors’ Book Fair on Dec. 10, from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Pratt is an award-winning writer and poet whose first novel is titled “The Serpents of Blissfull.”

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