Arts

BDN features UMaine Zillman Art Museum

The Bangor Daily News wrote a feature about how the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum ended up in downtown Bangor. The museum was founded in 1946 by longtime UMaine art professor Vincent Hartgen, but by the late 1990s, it had already well outgrown its on-campus location at Carnegie Hall with the nearly 6,000 works […]

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BDN shares Wabanaki Winter Market

The Bangor Daily News reported that the Wabanaki Winter Market, an annual celebration of art created by Wabanaki artists, will return with one-of-a-kind artwork for sale from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on Dec. 10 at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts. The schedule of events is online.

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Media share ‘Plan B’ art exhibit

The Penobscot Bay Pilot, Courier-Gazette and Republican Journal noted that “Plan B,” a new multimedia art exhibit curated by Larraine Brown of Artivism in Maine, is at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. The show, on display through Jan. 9, is free and open to the […]

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UMaine Machias museum management class exhibit opens today 

“TIME: Stories of the Past and Echoes of the Future,” an exhibit by UMaine Machias professor Bernie Vinzani’s museum management class, opens today, Nov. 28, 4–6 p.m at the University of Maine Machias Art Gallery on the first floor of Powers Hall. The exhibit, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s poem “Burnt Notion,” conveys the idea that […]

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Machias Valley News-Observer shares ‘Hungry Now’ documentary screening

The Machias Valley News-Observer noted that the documentary “Hungry Now,” filmed and produced through a class at the University of Maine Machias, will have its regional premiere at the University of Maine at Machias Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Dec. 2, following its television premiere on Maine Public Television on Thanksgiving night, Nov. 24, […]

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‘Plan B’ art exhibit at the UMaine Hutchinson Center

“Plan B,” a new multimedia art exhibit curated by Larraine Brown of Artivism in Maine, is at the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The show, on display through Jan. 9, is free and open to the public from 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday. There will […]

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Media share Downing performance at Boothbay Harbor Opera House

The Times Record, Boothbay Register and Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that Elizabeth Downing, instructor of flute at the University of Maine, will perform with Grammy-winning composer and pianist Paul Sullivan at the Boothbay Harbor Opera House on Dec. 3 for the first in a series of holiday concerts at the historic venue. 

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Call for performers at 2023 International Dance Festival

The Office of International Programs and the International Student Association is issuing a call for performers for the 2023 International Dance Festival in the Collins Center for the Arts on Feb. 11, with shows at 2 p.m. and 7 .p.m.  The annual event showcasing performances from around the world is a unique opportunity for cross-cultural […]

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