In reporting on a $2.5 million grant to the Maine Community Foundation, the Bangor Daily News noted the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Expansion Arts Fund in 2020 to support development and promotion of a virtual Wabanaki Winter Market, including educational content and a Wabanaki Artist […]
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The Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal and Centralmaine.com shared a University of Maine news release indicating that the Hudson Museum, the Page Farm and Home Museum, the Zillman Museum of Art and the Versant Power Astronomy Center are open to the public with face coverings required. Visit the facilities’ websites for hours and more information.
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The Bangor Daily News advanced an exhibit of James Linehan’s work at The Gallery at 900 Broadway through Aug. 27. Linehan is a professor of art and chair of the art department at the University of Maine. The exhibit is sponsored by St. Joseph Healthcare Healing Arts Program, which seeks to enhance the hospital environment […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced a new traveling arts and social justice exhibit which opens on June 4 in Portland and will be offered at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center at the University of Maine beginning Sept. 3. The Kneeling Art Photography Project will explore the meaning and evolution of the Take-A-Knee gesture […]
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George Kinghorn, director of the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum, will join fellow directors of The Maine Art Museum Trail for a virtual discussion about their museums and the art landscape in Maine and beyond at 6 p.m. May 25 via Zoom. “A Conversation with The Maine Art Museum Trail Directors” will feature four […]
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Centralmaine.com, the Bangor Daily News, The Irregular, The Maine Edge and the Advertiser Democrat promoted the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ production of “Twelfth Night,” which will be available for streaming on-demand through May 9. Information about viewing the production is online.
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Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of Maine System vice chancellor for research and innovation and University of Maine president, spoke with WABI about a $100,000 gift from Joe and Sue Cyr. The gift, which was announced on the Maine Day of Giving, will be used to support UMaine’s MBA program, a campus biomedical lab and the Collins […]
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University of Maine Foundation President Jeffery Mills announced a $100,000 gift to kick off the annual Maine Day of Giving event led by the Foundation. Donors Joe and Sue Cyr of Old Town have provided $50,000 to name a biomedical engineering prep lab in the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center, $40,000 to support the […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present an on-demand virtual production of its final spring 2021 show, William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” filmed in the Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden on the UMaine campus and streaming online from April 28 to May 9. “Twelfth Night,” one of Shakespeare’s best-known romantic comedies, centers […]
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Jon Ippolito, a University of Maine professor of new media, spoke with WIRED for a story about networked creativity that builds on digital art shared on virtual platforms such as TikTok.
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