Gretchen Faulkner, director of the University of Maine Hudson Museum, was heralded in a Yahoo Sports piece for her efforts in loaning the museum’s transformation mask that inspired the Seattle Seahawks logo to the Burke Museum at the University of Seattle. A Kwakwaka’wakw (kwock-KWOCKY-wowk) artist or artists carved the cedar mask in the late 19th […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the third annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day, hosted by the University of Maine Humanities Center. Program events for all ages highlighted the arts, literature and history at community venues including the University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor Public Library and Maine Discovery Museum. Liam Riordan, a UMaine history […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Liam Riordan, a University of Maine history professor, board member of the Maine Humanities Council and director of the UMaine Humanities Center; and Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center, about the UMaine Humanities Center’s third annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day on Jan. 24 with a kickoff […]
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Gretchen Faulkner, director of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) and the Portland Press Herald about a native mask that belongs to the museum and may be the inspiration for the original team logo for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. The wooden Northwest Coast transformation mask depicts a bird […]
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When the Seattle Seahawks lost 24–20 to the Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 16, 2014, the defending Super Bowl champions were 6–4 and reeling. But a week later, the Seahawks won the first of six straight regular-season contests. In the ensuing Divisional Playoff, the top-seeded Seahawks trounced the Carolina Panthers, then clinched a have-to-see-it-to-believe-it 28–22 […]
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The Weekly and The Maine Edge previewed events that are scheduled as part of the University of Maine Humanities Center’s third annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day on Jan. 24 with a kickoff event Jan. 23. Free events for participants of all ages will be offered at venues including the University of Maine Museum of […]
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George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art, was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about the Bangor City Council approving a $1,000 matching grant that could allow a 10-foot-tall “buoy-like floating sculpture” to be anchored in the Kenduskeag Stream in downtown Bangor this summer. The buoy, created by […]
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VillageSoup and The Weekly reported on the University of Maine Museum of Art’s winter exhibitions that will open to the public on Jan. 16 and run through March 21. The exhibits are, Barbara Putnam and Deborah Cornell’s “Global Change: The Dance of Contingencies,” Dan Estabrook’s “King & Clown” and Rachel Hellmann’s “Infra/Structure.”
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The Bangor Daily News reported Bangor’s Business and Economic Development Committee approved a $1,000 Individual Artist Grant that could allow a 10-foot-tall “monumental fiberglass buoy-like floating sculpture” to be anchored in the Kenduskeag Stream in downtown Bangor this summer. The buoy, created by Eastport artist Anna Helper, will be part of her exhibition on display […]
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The University of Maine is one of 240 colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the 2015 Community Engagement Classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. UMaine and 156 other institutions received reclassification; 83 colleges and universities received first-time classification. In 2008, UMaine and Bates College were the first […]
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