The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community. Grants support up to 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events that enhance the artistic, cultural and intellectual life of UMaine. The CA/DLS committee accepts applications four times a year. The next application deadline is Sept. 24 for […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art has announced its fall exhibitions, running Sept. 14 through Dec. 29. Shelley Reed’s “Second Nature” is a collection of black-and-white oil paintings that “highlight essential dualities and are imbued with profound messages related to fragility, power and life’s uncertainties.” Darren Emenau’s “Olio” features handmade ceramic objects, from vessels […]
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Jonathan Fox, the principal percussionist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 2000 and a University of Maine iPh.D. student studying under UMaine School of Performing Arts professor Stuart Marrs, will give a public lecture on campus Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, “Living and Working Abroad: Challenges and Rewards.” Fox teaches at […]
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The Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine is offering a variety of performances throughout the 2018–19 season. September events will include a broadcast of a murder mystery and several musical groups. National Theatre Live will bring “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” to the CCA at 7 p.m. […]
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The Maine Edge previewed the Collins Center for the Arts’ 2018-19 season, which opens Sept. 14 with Blackberry Smoke. Technically, the first show of the season is a Sept. 7 broadcast of National Theatre Live’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” said Danny Williams, the CCA’s executive director. But Blackberry Smoke truly […]
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An exhibit of books and paintings of Barbara Toothpick and Alan Horseradish will be on display Aug. 3 through Sept. 28 in the University of Maine at Machias Art Gallery in Powers Hall. A free public opening reception will be held from 5–7 p.m., Aug. 3. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7) and Q1065.fm reported on the completion of a new mural in Bangor painted by artist and University of Maine undergraduate student Liam Reading. Spanning two walls of the Together Place Peer Run Recovery Center at 150 Union St., the mural depicts famous […]
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USA Today’s 10Best featured the University of Maine Museum of Art in the article, “10 reasons you need to travel the Maine Art Museum Trail.” The trail encompasses the state’s nine leading art museums within a day’s drive of each other, allowing visitors to experience the state’s natural settings along the way that inspired some […]
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Two exhibitions that speak to historical and contemporary human concerns will be on display July 20 through Sept. 21 in Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine. The exhibition “desolve” features selected works by Andy Mauery, a UMaine associate professor of art. Mauery describes her work as “unheroic: quieter, contemplative, more likely to offer […]
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Singer, songwriter and storyteller Jeremy Camp will take the stage at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 1. Last fall, Jeremy Camp released “The Answer,” his 15th album in 15 years. He has been named Male Vocalist of the Year twice, Songwriter of the Year […]
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