As the Seattle Seahawks celebrate their 50th season, a piece of the team’s visual DNA rests quietly in a university museum nearly 3,000 miles away. The team’s original logo, unveiled in 1976, was inspired by a carved cedar transformation mask created by the Kwakwaka’wakw people of British Columbia. That very mask lives at the University […]
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) covered the addition of a gift shop to the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum. “This has been under construction, I would say, for the last three years, but it has really taken form in the last month,” said Rochelle Lawrence, museum educator and assistant curator.
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The Page Farm and Home Museum has released a new virtual tour developed in collaboration with Matthew Magnani, assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, and his students. In consultation with museum Director Patricia Henner, students in Magnani’s Museum Anthropology course helped create a high-quality digital copy of the main […]
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WFVX (Channel 7 in Bangor) interviewed University Ph.D. Student Maraina Miles about her research voyage in Chile and her documentation of it through photography. Her photos are on display at the UMaine Hudson Museum.
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The boat where Maraina Miles lived for a month was equipped with a small oven large enough for a tray of brownies, a four-burner gas stove and a mini refrigerator. Most of the perishables, such as avocados and cabbage, were stored on the top deck, kept cool by the Chilean weather and chest freezers. Despite […]
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The Mount Desert Islander promoted an event happening Tuesday, April 30 at the Wendell Gilley Museum with University of Maine professor of English Jennifer Moxley, who will discuss her book titled “For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds.” The event will be live-cast online, with an in-person reception at 6 p.m. and […]
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The Denver Post featured information on seven objects at the University of Maine Hudson Museum that will be removed in May at the request of Indigenous Alaskan tribes for a story about a similar request being made at a Denver museum. The Post also interviewed Hudson Museum Director Gretchen Faulkner about repatriating the objects, one […]
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Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News highlighted the partnership between the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum and Penobscot Nation Museum to create an online lexicon for Wabanaki basketry. The lexicon is funded by a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will feature images and terminology related to the basketry. CentralMaine.com […]
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“This is special,” said Jennifer Neptune (Penobscot) as she peered through the glass pane of a display at the University of Maine Hudson Museum. “What’s unique about this one is the lace work around the outside edge. See how the ash is woven?” Her fingers moved in a weaving motion, an echo of the Wabanaki […]
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News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Wabanaki Winter Market, the largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists in New England, held at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts. WABI, WVII (Channel 7), the Bangor Daily News and Maine Art Scene Magazine previewed the event. WBRC (Channel 7 in Birmingham, […]
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