Sofia Rivera from Oakhurst, New Jersey is an art education and studio art double major with a minor in art history. Rivera has been honored with numerous awards from the Department of Art, including the CLAS Dean’s Exhibition Award and the Department of Art Elizabeth Graves Fine Art Scholarship award for outstanding performance in art […]
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The Bangor Daily News reviewed playwright Jen Silverman’s 90-minute, one-act play “The Moors,” presented this weekend by True North Theatre at the Cyrus Pavilion at the University of Maine. Lauren Billings, who plays the free-spirited younger sister Huldey, will begin her third year as a theater major with a minor in dance at the University […]
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Emily Dunlap from Old Town, Maine is a rising fourth-year music education major with an instrumental concentration. She is also in the Honors College. Dunlap has received the Thomas E. Lynch Honors Fellowship, been recognized as a James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior and is an alumni member of the 2021 Macy’s Great American Alumni Marching […]
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George Kinghorn has been named senior executive director of cultural engagement and arts at the University of Maine. In addition to this three-year appointment, he also will continue to serve as director and curator of UMaine’s Zillman Art Museum. Kinghorn will collaborate with Danny Williams, executive director of the Collins Center for the Arts, and […]
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Broadway World, the Boston Sun and Beacon Hill Times shared information about a performance of an original, one-woman opera based on the life of Rose Standish Nichols, pacifist, suffragist, garden designer and museum founder who died in 1960 at the age of 88. Beth Wiemann, professor of composition, clarinet and music theory in the University […]
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The Ellsworth American shared information about a concert by Kevin Birch, music faculty member at the University of Maine’s School of the Performing Arts, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor. A historical instrument specialist, Birch will perform on the clavichord, a precursor to the piano played largely from the […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared that “Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by […]
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“Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by the Nazis. He was joined in […]
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News Center Maine, 3D Printing Industry, NewsBreak and the Bangor Daily News reported that a UMaine team is 3D printing a replica of one of the items, the Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet, which will be displayed at the Hudson Museum while the original is sent back to the Tlingit tribe in southern Alaska. UMaine engineers […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine Department of Art, the Old Town Hannaford and two UMaine students, Gabriella Peluso and Elaine Thomas, were honored at this year’s 2022 Maine Campus Compact Awards Ceremony.
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