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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Laurie Hicks, a University of Maine art professor and curator of the Lord Hall Gallery on campus, spoke with The Maine Edge about two related exhibitions the Department of Art will present as part of the 2015 Maine Photo Project. “Visualizing Home and Homelessness” includes more than 60 photographs that represent investigations into the concepts […]
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