The Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine folklorist Edward “Sandy” Ives, who founded the Maine Folklife Center, inspired the Mallett Brothers Band’s latest CD, “The Falling of the Pine: Songs from the Maine Woods.” Will and Luke Mallett’s father, folk singer David Mallett, is an obvious musical influence, but their mother, Jayne Lello, also […]
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Several University of Maine faculty members and programs were mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “Local writers make collective effort to build Bangor-area literary scene.” In recent years, the number of arts and cultural events in Bangor has grown, and UMaine has had longstanding literary programming with its New Writing Series, according to the […]
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The Republican Journal reports the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor is putting on three winter shows. “Brenton Hamilton: 20 Years” features the photography of Rockport’s Brenton Hamilton, who uses 19th century processes to produce his work. In “Jared Cowan: The Life of David,” Cowan, a Midcoast sculptor, video and installation artist, has […]
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Twenty-time Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny will lead an accomplished international ensemble Sunday, Jan. 15 at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. At 15, the guitar player began working with professional jazz musicians and at 19, he became the youngest-ever teacher at the Berklee College of Music. At 7 p.m. Jan […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a committee has been formed to plan the proposed Bangor Celtic Crossroads Festival for a September 2018 launch, and a Celtic music series is set to begin this month to help raise funds and awareness for the festival. Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of […]
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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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