The University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum will kick off its annual wreath-making workshops Saturday, Nov. 30, on Portage Road. Three workshops will be held Nov. 30 — from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2–4 p.m. and 5–7 p.m. Workshops will also be held 5–7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3 and Wednesday, Dec. 4 […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed Mary Ellen Camire, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine, for the article “Struggling Mainers brace for cuts in food stamps.” Camire said Maine already has significant food security issues and even a minor federal cut to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or SNAP, […]
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The Weekly previewed the mixed-media art exhibition “Place of Mind: The John Bailly-Richard Blanco Collaborative Project” that opens Friday at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. The collaboration includes art by French-American painter and printmaker Bailly and Cuban-American poet and teacher Blanco, who read at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
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The Portland Press Herald previewed the exhibition “Place of Mind: The John Bailly-Richard Blanco Collaborative Project” that opens Friday at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. The exhibit features mixed-media art by French-American painter and printmaker Bailly and Cuban-American poet and teacher Blanco, who read at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
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University of Maine Museum of Art director and curator George Kinghorn was noted in a Bangor Daily News story for winning an award during an event sponsored by Bangor Fusion, the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce’s networking group of younger residents. Kinghorn won the the Fusion Leadership and Vision Award (FLAVA), which recognizes an individual, […]
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George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art, is one of three nominees for a Fusion Bangor 2012 Leadership and Vision Award recognizing a Bangor-area resident who has made a positive impact on the Bangor region. Kinghorn, who also is president of the Downtown Bangor Partnership, has long supported downtown […]
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Three new University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) exhibits open to the public Friday, Oct. 5, for the fall season. Exhibits include “Alan Bray: At the Edges,” which features more than 20 works by one of Maine’s most respected contemporary landscape painters; “Mayumi Sarai: Ring Cycle,” a display of floor-based and hanging sculptures; and […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art will host MOSAIC, its fourth annual gala event, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the museum at 40 Harlow Street in downtown Bangor. The museum galleries will be transformed into a creative stage for music, art and mingling with fellow museum and art […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on Saturday’s “Paint the City” project and fundraiser in Bangor for local artists. The University of Maine Museum of Art and Bangor Art Society collaborated in organizing the event. Local artists were invited to paint scenes from downtown Bangor and the work was auctioned off later in the day. Contact: George […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on the 2nd annual Bangor Paint Day, a free event being held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, in cooperation with the Bangor Art Society. The event gives people of any age an opportunity to paint any scene in […]
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