Museums

UMaine Art Museum to participate in Friday program

The UMaine Museum of Art will participate in the Downtown Bangor Art Walk and Food Drive Friday, Nov. 18 from 5-9 p.m.  Maps to participating artist studios, galleries and downtown merchants will be available at the UMaine museum, lon Harlow St. in Bangor.  Visitors are asked to drop of a non-perishable food item at any […]

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Art museum to host family “Art Factory” Dec. 3

The UMaine Museum of Art will host a family event called “Art Factory” on Saturday Dec. 3 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the museum in downtown Bangor.  This free event will provide hands-on holiday art-making opportunities for families who wish to drop in at any time between 11 and 3.  Participants will have opportunities to […]

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TV Report on Day of the Dead Celebration

Bangor TV station WVII covered Wednesday’s Day of the Dead celebration held at UMaine’s Hudson Museum. Local schoolchildren learned about the holiday, an aspect of indigenous Mexican culture, which honors the deceased. Contact: Jessica Bloch 207-581-3777

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UMaine art museum gallery talk Nov. 9

University of Maine Museum of Art Director George Kinghorn will host an informal gallery talk at the museum, in downtown Bangor, on Wednesday Nov. 9 at 12 noon.  The talk, and accompanying tour, will cover the Carlo Pittore exhibition “Studio Life,” at the museum through December 30.  The presentation, part of the museum’s ART@NOON gallery […]

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UMaine Museum of Art Exhibits Featured

The new exhibits at the UMaine Museum of Art were featured in a Bangor Daily News story. The exhibits, which opened Friday and run through Dec. 30, include painting, photograph, and assemblage. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

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UMaine Museum of Art to Host Oil Painting Workshop with Philip Frey

BANGOR, Maine – The University of Maine Museum of Art will host an oil painting workshop on Saturday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 29. Professional artist Philip Frey will lead the two-day workshop at the museum, which is located at 40 Harlow Street. Both days will start at 10 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. […]

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Drawing On project highlighted

Prof. Laurie Hicks from the UMaine art department was interviewed for a Friday WABI television story about Drawing On, an exhibit that opens at UMaine’s Lord Hall on Friday Oct. 14.  Part of the Maine Drawing Project, the exhibit features several artists drawing directly on the walls in the Lord Hall Gallery.  WLBZ television also […]

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Museum to return artifact to Arizona tribes

Saturday’s Bangor Daily News features a story about a centuries-old ceramic pot that’s part of UMaine’s Hudson Museum collection.  The pot, which contains the cremated remains of a member of the Hohokam people, has been in Maine since it was given as a gift to William C. Wells of Orono in 1937.  He donated it […]

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Collins Center Anniversary Featured in Newspaper

The Bangor Daily News has a story about UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season. CCA Executive Director John Patches told the newspaper the center’s recent renovation put it closer to the goal of becoming a destination, while UMaine Foundation officer Danny Williams said the CCA puts world-class […]

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Hudson Museum Noted in Story About Penobscot Artifacts

UMaine’s Hudson Museum was mentioned in a story in the weekly Free Press, which covers midcoast Maine, about the Penobscot Material Culture Collaborative. The collaborative, of which the museum is a member, seeks to keep Penobscot artifacts in Maine for future generations to see and study. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

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