Museums

Indian Holiday Market basketmakers featured in PMA show

Four Native American artists who participate in the Hudson Museum’s Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market at the University of Maine also have baskets showcased in the Portland Museum of Art’s biennial “You Can’t Get There from Here.” Penobscot artists Theresa Secord and Sarah Sockbeson and Passamaquoddy artists Jeremy Frey and George Neptune have artwork in […]

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Page Farm and Home Museum to hold Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe Dec. 5

The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will hold its annual Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. The free event will feature more than 20 local area vendors with handcrafted and homemade products including jewelry, bread, cheese, wreaths, toys and quilts. The event is […]

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Averill speaks about Page Farm and Home Museum on WABI

Halcyon Averill of the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine was a recent guest on WABI (Channel 5). She spoke about the museum’s role in the Maine Harvest Festival being held Nov. 14–15 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Averill said the museum focuses on agriculture and domestic life in […]

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UMMA exhibit, Kinghorn cited in Free Press article on photo collection

The Free Press reported the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland will open an exhibit of selections from the Bruce Brown Photography Collection organized by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA). The show is half of a two-part exhibition celebrating the collection of Bruce Brown, CMCA’s curator emeritus, who began collecting works by Maine photographers […]

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Kinghorn mentioned in Artscope magazine article on Miami art fairs

George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA), was mentioned in an Artscope magazine article on upcoming international art fairs in Miami. Art Basel Miami Beach is the world’s leading art destination during the first week of December and several adjunct fairs are scheduled to operate that week in […]

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UMHC to offer student bus trip to Bangor Artwalk Nov. 13

The University of Maine Humanities Center (UMHC) is offering a free student bus trip to attend the Downtown Bangor Arts Collaborative Artwalk on Friday, Nov. 13. The bus will depart campus at 4:30 p.m. from the Collins Center for the Arts parking lot and return by 8 p.m. The event will feature an art installation […]

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UMMA to host Drop & Shop, Maine Edge reports

The Maine Edge reported the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) in downtown Bangor will host Drop & Shop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28. The event allows parents to drop their children off at the museum while they do some holiday shopping on Small Business Saturday. Children aged 8–12 will […]

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Press Herald publishes review of UMMA exhibits

The Portland Press Herald published a review of the current exhibitions at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “The suite of exhibitions offers a provocative consideration of contemporary photography,” according to the article. The three separate exhibits are “Celebrating Photography in Maine: Selections from the Bruce Brown Collection;” “Natural History,” photographs […]

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UMMA offering adult workshops, Maine Edge reports

The Maine Edge reported the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor will offer art-making workshops for adults in November. Students will design and construct a hanging wire sculpture over the course of two Saturday workshops, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and 14, according to the article. The first session […]

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Smith discusses art exhibit with Portland Phoenix

The Portland Phoenix reported Owen Smith, a new media professor at the University of Maine, has art in the exhibition, “You Can’t Get There From Here: The 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial.” The exhibit, curated by Alison Ferris, accentuates the artistic process at play in the contemporary art scene in Maine, according to the […]

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