Museums

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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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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Hudson Museum contributes to ‘West Mexico’ exhibit in Oklahoma

An archaeology exhibition titled “West Mexico: Ritual and Identity” at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma includes 21 objects from the University of Maine Hudson Museum. The pieces on loan from UMaine and other public and private collections augment the more than 500 figures and vessels from West Mexico that Thomas Gilcrease amassed. Robert Pickering, […]

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UMMA accepting summer camp registrations, WVII reports

Kat Johnson, education coordinator at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor, was a recent guest on WVII (Channel 7). Johnson spoke about the UMMA Summer Art Camp, seven one-week sessions offered June 20 through Aug. 12. Each week is geared toward a different age level, according to the report. The camp, […]

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Unity College donates Native American artifacts to Hudson Museum

Unity College donated several dozen hand-woven Native American baskets and other artifacts to the University of Maine to be cared for and displayed at the Hudson Museum. The items — officially called the Peter Smith Terry Collection — were bequeathed to Unity College by Terry, who taught at the college in the 1970s and died […]

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UMaine Museum of Art seeks designers for fashion challenge, WVII reports

WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine Museum of Art is seeking designers to take part in a fashion challenge, similar to the Bravo TV show, “Project Runway.” The competition calls for each team — a designer and model — to create and display two outfits on the runway that were inspired by works […]

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BDN previews UMaine Museum of Art summer exhibits

The Bangor Daily News reported on two exhibitions slated to open May 13 at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Married artists Alisa Henriquez and Thomas Berding will both have displays at the museum through Sept. 10. “Remnant States,” is composed of more than 40 abstract paintings by Berding ranging from […]

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Ranco to participate in panel on Edward Curtis’ photographs, Press Herald reports

Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs and coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the Portland Museum of Art exhibit, “Edward Curtis: Selections from the North American Indian.” Ranco, who also is an anthropology professor at UMaine, will participate in the panel […]

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Brucher, student speak with WLBZ about Shakespeare’s First Folio

WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the Portland Public Library’s exhibit of William Shakespeare’s First Folio. The University of Maine Humanities Center and Department of English co-sponsored a bus trip to Portland to tour collections at the Osher Map Library, as well as attend a public lecture and view Shakespeare’s First Folio. “I think anything that […]

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