Gretchen Faulkner, director of the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum of Art, was interviewed by the Portland Press Herald for the article about a photography exhibit on display at Harvard, titled “Thoreau’s Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller.” Jane Pickering, Harvard Museum’s executive director, and Janis Sacco, the museum’s director of exhibits, […]
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The May issue of Down East magazine carries a story titled “Seeing Double” that explores the possibility that a carved Northwest Coast transformation mask in the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum is the model for the logo of the 2014 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Hudson Museum Director Gretchen Faulkner said Richard Emerick, the late […]
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The works of Vincent Hartgen, founder of the University of Maine Museum of Art and longtime UMaine professor of art, will be on display at Boyd Place Gallery, 21 Boyd St., Bangor. The show, “Maine Masters,” features works of Hartgen and Arthur Thompson. The exhibit is open daily, 9 a.m.–7 p.m., through May 31. A […]
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The Weekly and The Maine Edge reported on three exhibitions that will be on display at the University of Maine Museum of Art this spring. “Amy Beeler: Passion and Adornment,” “Looking Back Six Years — Part One: Selected New Acquisitions” and “Jay Kelly: Works from 2007–2014” will run from April 4 to June 7 at […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine’s maple sugar celebration originally scheduled for Maine Maple Sunday on March 23 has been postponed to Sunday, March 30 because the sap hasn’t started flowing freely. The event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at UMaine’s Page Home and Farm Museum and Thomas J. Corcoran […]
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Sap is not yet flowing freely so the University of Maine is moving its Maple Sugar Celebration from Sunday, March 23 to Sunday, March 30. Festivities, scheduled for 1-3 p.m., begin with a video titled “The Maple Sugaring Story” at UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum on Portage Road. Children in grades K-5 are invited […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art was mentioned in the Morning Sentinel’s article about modernist painter John Marin’s daughter-in-law giving nearly 300 watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks to the Arkansas Arts Center. UMMA has 26 pieces painted by Marin, who The New York Times described in 1953 as “America’s No. 1 Master.”
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The Portland Press Herald reviewed the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) installation of Kenny Cole’s “Parabellum (Prepare for War).” Reviewer Daniel Kany said the exhibit that uses a fictional Civil War veteran to inspire questions about war in America is “a genuine and humble dedication to wanting what is right and good for […]
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Student gains unique perspective on some of the finest pieces at the UMaine Museum of Art.
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The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine invites the public to its annual Maine Maple Sunday celebration 1–3 p.m. March 23. Festivities begin with a video titled “The Maple Sugaring Story” at the farm and museum on Munson Road. Children in grades K–5 will be invited to take part in learning […]
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