Arts

Adams chosen as 2023 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park

Hollie Adams, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine, has been selected as one of 13 artists selected for Acadia National Park’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 2023. Adams is the author of the novel “Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother” and the hybrid prose-poetry chapbook “Deliver Me from Swedish Furniture,” which was a finalist […]

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BDN shares 2023 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition events

The Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine Department of Art will host its 2023 Faculty Exhibition from Feb. 3–March 17 in the Lord Hall Gallery. A public reception will take place 5:30–7 p.m. Feb. 10. The trio Aldrich Norton & Ross will perform live in the gallery at 4 p.m. Feb. 23. […]

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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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