Arts

Maine Edge previews Collins Center for the Arts season

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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Public concerts offered as part of annual Chamber Music Institute

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 advances ‘Transformer Tales’ performances

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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BDN publishes feature on art student, work highlighting cultural history

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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Maine Home + Design previews UMMA ‘Contemporary Currents’ exhibit

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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WABI reports on Warhol-inspired student art at Hudson Museum

WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum exhibit, “Wabanaki Portraits from the Indian Island School.” The exhibit features Andy Warhol-inspired photographic silkscreen self-portraits created by eighth-graders at the Indian Island School. Several Warhol pieces on loan from the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor also are included in the […]

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Maine Edge reviews new audio DVD produced at IMRC Center

The Maine Edge published a review of “4 Contemporary Sound Poets,” a  new audio DVD produced at the University of Maine’s IMRC Center. The DVD includes sound poetry by Tomomi Adachi, a noted Japanese artist and performer; Owen Smith, a new media professor and director of the Intermedia MFA program at UMaine; Duane Ingalls, an […]

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Downtown Maine photography exhibit to open July 22 in Lord Hall Gallery

The Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine presents an exhibition of the rich and compelling photographs of Heath Paley. “Picturing Downtown Maine,” which runs from July 22 through Sept. 23, includes a selection of large-scale photographs that paint a portrait of Maine’s community life. The images, created between 2009 and 2014, come from […]

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Warhol-inspired student portrait

Warhol-inspired student self-portraits on display at Hudson Museum

Eighth-graders at the Indian Island School created Andy Warhol-inspired photographic silkscreen self-portraits for their graduation shots. The student pop art productions, along with several Warhol pieces on loan from the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, are on exhibit in the Minsky Culture Lab in Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. Michael […]

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Arts & Culture: Katie Keaton takes the stage

Read transcript Alumna Katie Keaton, ’16, embraced her undergraduate experience as a theatre major with a double minor in dance and business management. For Keaton, immersing herself in the performing arts at UMaine — both onstage and backstage — made her happy. The Caribou, Maine native was deeply involved in various UMaine clubs and organizations. She was a […]

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