The Bangor Daily News advanced a recent mixed martial arts event at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. The center hosted a New England Fights production of “NEF 40: School of Hard Knocks” on Sept. 7. “The arts is a very broad term,” said Danny Williams, executive director of the Collins Center. […]
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The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community through Sept. 30 for projects starting on or after Oct. 28. Past awards have supported lectures, Culturefest, the International Dance Festival, exhibits, performances and guest artists. Grants support as much as 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events […]
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The Collins Center for the Arts is offering a variety of performances throughout the 2019–20 season. September events include several show-stopping mainstage music performances. Chubby Checker and The Wildcats will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 13. When Checker appeared on the American Bandstand in 1960 and performed “The Twist,” it was the dawn of a […]
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As part of its statewide fall visual arts preview, the Portland Press Herald highlighted the Joan Belmar exhibit “Way Stations” at the University of Maine Museum of Art. “Way Stations,” which opens Sept. 13, features new abstract paintings, including a pair of 92-inch tondos that Belmar created for the show. Belmar gravitates toward circular forms, […]
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More than 50 works by Maine fiber artists will be featured in the exhibit “Hanging by a Thread,” Sept. 6–Nov. 22 in the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Works demonstrating techniques and forms will include wall hangings, wearable art and vessels. Artists represented in […]
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The Maine Edge spoke with Danny Williams, executive director of the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine, and Karen Cole, associate director of the CCA, about the center’s 2019–20 season. The season kicks off Sept. 13 with musician Chubby Checker and will feature a gala performance by Bobby McFerrin Sept. 28. […]
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Susan Smith, professor and assistant director of the University of Maine’s Intermedia MFA program, was selected to win the Juror’s Award from the Surface Design Association’s International Exhibit 2019 for her work titled “The Passage.” The installation piece consists of artifacts from social practice-based work at the Texas-Mexico border. Through a mourning cloth and various […]
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The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on Susan Smith, assistant director of the intermedia master of fine arts program at the University of Maine. Since February, Smith and her husband have traveled from their home in Dover-Foxcroft to the U.S. border with Mexico, and visited refugee detention centers in Florida and Texas, where […]
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The Penobscot Times ran a University of Maine media release about two gallery exhibitions that run through Sept. 20 at Lord Hall Gallery. UMaine assistant professor of art Giles Timms’ exhibit is titled “touch my human.” Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, an artist living in Seal Cove, Maine, is exhibiting paintings and mixed media titled “The Painter […]
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The Penobscot Times published a University of Maine news release previewing the 2019–20 season at the Collins Center for the Arts. The upcoming season will offer a range of shows including music, dance, magic shows, Broadway musicals and more, the release states. The season will kick off with a performance by Chubby Checker and The […]
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