The University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor will open “Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick Artists” on Sept. 23. The exhibit highlights a diversity of creative approaches and genres — from representational to conceptual — by artists from throughout New Brunswick. Also varied is the range of media, which includes ceramic, photography, oil […]
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University of Maine graduate student Jill Peto was included in the National Geographic series, “20 Under 30: The Next Generation of National Park Leaders.” The feature on Pelto, titled “This artist turns dull data into art — and a call to action,” focuses on her environmental artwork that convey climate change in North Cascades National […]
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard history professor, will deliver the lecture, “Patty’s Sampler and Phebe’s Quilt: Traces of Maine in the American West” at 12:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Collins Center for the Arts. Ulrich demonstrates how the diaries, letters and needlework of Patty Sessions and Phebe Woodruff suggest new […]
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The works of nine contemporary Maine artists will be featured in the exhibition “ENCAUSTIC — wax+heat,” Sept. 16 through Dec. 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. An opening reception will be held from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16. The exhibit in the H. Alan and Sally Fernald Art Gallery will highlight […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced performances of “Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland,” a compilation of traditional stories that have been part of the Penobscot Indian Nation’s oral tradition for centuries. Margo Lukens, a University of Maine English professor, collaborated with Carol Dana and other members of the Penobscot Nation to research and bring to […]
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The Maine Edge published an article advancing the 31st season of the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The CCA is a “cornerstone of the region’s creative and cultural landscape,” the article states. Its history of booking exceptional acts continues with the 2016–2017 season, one that features bands, comedians, chamber music, […]
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The annual Chamber Music Institute at the University of Maine will feature three public concerts Aug. 6–7 — a performance by New York Philharmonic violinist Jin Suk Yu, and two student performances. Yu, the former concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, will perform with classical pianist Maxim Pakhamov and the Chamber Music Institute Orchestra. Tickets for […]
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Broadway World reported the Penobscot Theatre Co. will present “Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland,” a new play about a Wabanaki tribe hero who taught people the arts of civilization and protected them from danger. The original work is the culmination of a yearlong collaboration among the theatre, Penobscot elders and playwrights, native scholars and […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Penobscot artist and University of Maine student Christiana Becker. Becker, an art major, used stories she heard growing up as inspiration for a series of carved woodblock prints she created in a printmaking class, according to the article. Becker’s prints not only depict her artistic interpretation […]
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An upcoming exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor was advanced in the August 2016 issue of Maine Home + Design magazine. In celebration of a partnership between the Maine Arts Commission and the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, UMMA will present “Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick […]
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