Museums

Kinghorn, UMMA Summer Exhibition Mentioned in BDN Article

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, Weekly Preview UMaine Museum of Art’s Winter Exhibitions

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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UMMA Summer Exhibition Advanced in BDN Article

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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Carnegie Foundation Classification

Carnegie Foundation Selects UMaine for 2015 Community Engagement Classification

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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UMMA to Benefit from State Tourism Grant, Press Herald Reports

The University of Maine Museum of Art will benefit from a fall 2014 Tourism Enterprise Marketing Grant, according to the Portland Press Herald. The Maine Office of Tourism recently announced eight recipients for the grants that aim to support tourism marketing projects in 2015 that will increase visitor traffic to Maine, the article states. The […]

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WABI Reports on New Year’s Eve Family Event at UMMA

WABI (Channel 5) advanced the family-friendly activities offered at the University of Maine Museum of Art as part of Bangor’s Downtown Countdown New Year’s Eve celebration. The museum offered a free workshop for children to make a crown or tiara. The museum’s education coordinator, Eva Wagner, said the event is a safe, family-friendly way to […]

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UMaine Cited in Sun Journal Article on Maine Forestry Museum

The University of Maine was mentioned in a Sun Journal article about the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum officially changing its name to the Maine Forestry Museum. For the past several years, the museum has broadened its geographic range across the state and country with the main purpose of educating and entertaining people about Maine’s […]

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UMMA Family Event Part of Holiday Event Roundup

A Bangor Daily News story about events statewide for welcoming in the new year includes the children’s activities planned at the University of Maine Museum of Art. More information about the Dec. 31 UMMA family event is online.

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