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 next application deadline is Jan. 30. Proposals must be submitted online using the CA/DLS Grant Application […]
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University of Maine professors Jennifer Moxley and Beth Wiemann are scheduled to showcase their opera at the John Duffy Institute for New Opera in Norfolk, Virginia in March. During the week of March 12–17, the pair will workshop excerpts from “Until the War is Over,” an opera based on the novel “Bid Me to Live” […]
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Jill Pelto’s watercolor “Decline in Glacier Mass Balance” is the cover art for the Mainebiz 2017 Book of Lists, published Dec. 26. Pelto is a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, where she graduated in December 2015 with bachelor degrees in studio art and Earth science. […]
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VillageSoup reported Kathleen Ellis, who teaches English in the Honors College at the University of Maine, will lead a poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The Triggering New Poems workshop is set from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 13–17 at the downtown museum. Participants will expand their range of poetry writing […]
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Boothbay Register reported Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Art Works: Creativity Connects grant was awarded to support a series of public programs in collaboration with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, according to the article. The programs will […]
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Yale Climate Connections published an article on Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. Pelto creates environmental artwork as a way to communicate scientific data related to climate change. Pelto grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art, according to the […]
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The role art plays in the lives of Maine military veterans, including works that are a means of expression for those who lived through war, is the focus of an exhibition at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. “Veteran Artists” explores the way military service affects the outlook of artists. Using art as […]
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The Republican Journal/VillageSoup advanced the “Veteran Artists” exhibit that opens with a free reception 5-7 p.m. Dec. 16 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The exhibit explores the role that art plays in the lives of Maine military veterans.
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The University of Maine will open its 2016 Senior Art Exhibition, “MULTIFARIOUS: Artists in Flux,” with a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 at the Lord Hall Gallery. The show, which runs through Feb. 3, features 82 works of art, including paintings, drawings, etchings, silkscreens, woodcuts, sculpture, ceramics, digital paintings and photography. […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the annual Winter Art Factory hosted by the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The free event was held ahead of the Festival of Lights Parade and included several stations for creating ornaments, wrapping paper and a paper lantern, according to the report. “Often times not everyone […]
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