Arts

Kaye to speak about caregivers of older adults at UMMA

Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, will deliver a noontime talk July 20 at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Kaye’s talk, “Caregivers of Older Adults: ​America’s Unsung Heroes,” is being held in conjunction with Jason Bard Yarmosky’s “Somewhere” exhibition. The exhibit features a series of paintings, drawings […]

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Indian Island School art at the Hudson Museum

Hudson Museum exhibits ‘Art from the Indian Island School’

School’s out for summer. But printmaking art created this past winter and spring by students at the Indian Island School is on exhibit in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts. “Art from the Indian Island School” will be displayed in the Minsky Culture Lab through Sept. 7, when a public reception […]

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Republican Journal previews children’s art exhibit at Hutchinson Center

The Republican Journal reported the public is invited to view the “Celebrating Sprouts” children’s art exhibit on display through July 21 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. More than 24 framed artworks highlight the creativity of preschoolers ages 2 to 5. The pieces were completed during the recent school year at Broadreach […]

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Boothbay Register advances climate change, art discussion in Newcastle

Boothbay Register published a news release announcing the first in a series of public conversations that bring together ceramic art masters, scientists and Mainers working in natural resource-based fields to examine intersections between art and contemporary environmental issues. At 5:30 p.m. July 7 at St. Patrick’s Church in Newcastle, Port Clyde lobsterman Gerry Cushman will […]

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Ceramic sculptor highlights impacts of climate change in Gulf of Maine

What do a ceramic sculptor, lobsterman and climate scientist have to talk about? Find out at 5:30 p.m Friday, July 7 at St. Patrick’s Church in Newcastle. University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck will join Port Clyde lobsterman Gerry Cushman and artist Nancy Selvin to view images of artist Paula Winokur’s towering installations inspired […]

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Lincoln County News reports on DMC science illustration workshop

The Lincoln County News published a University of Maine news release about natural science illustration workshops held at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. For the past eight years, the center has been hosting the workshops led by David Wheeler, who taught illustration to college students in New York for over three decades before moving […]

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Summer hours in effect at Hudson Museum

University of Maine Hudson Museum summer hours — from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday — are in effect through August. The museum’s Saturday hours — from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — will resume Sept. 9. The Hudson Museum will be closed during the Fourth of July weekend, from 4 p.m. Friday, […]

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Emma Jandreau

Emma Jandreau: Expanding knowledge through new dance family

Before Emma Jandreau of Caribou, Maine decided what she wanted to do professionally, she knew she wanted to pursue a career that would help people. That goal, along with her lifelong passion for dance, led her to the University of Maine where she is pursuing a degree in communication sciences and disorders with minors in […]

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Public invited to events with featured UMMA artist

New York artist Jason Bard Yarmosky will attend two public events June 29 related to his current exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. At noon, Yarmosky will give an informal talk at the museum on “Somewhere,” his exhibit featuring a series of paintings, drawings and video that explore issues […]

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Free Press, BDN cover Climate Change Institute art exhibit

The Free Press and Bangor Daily News reported on an exhibit at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast that features photography and artwork illustrating the diverse research activities of students, faculty and staff of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. About two-thirds of the art exhibitors are current or former CCI students, including Jill Pelto, […]

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