The University of Maine Hudson Museum website features online educational resources. A page of resources for teachers provides information on many websites, books and videos on Wabanaki history and culture. The museum’s YouTube channel features 19 videos showcasing Wabanaki artists talking about basketmaking, birchbark and carving traditions, and more. In the publicly accessible database, users […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) is launching “Fabulous Fridays,” a new way to enjoy the museum’s exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Each Friday, UMMA will post a new virtual tour or an online follow-along-at-home art class led by Kat Johnson, senior museum educator, on their website. The videos also will […]
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News Center Maine reported on a February break art camp offered by the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. The weeklong camp focuses on teaching kids to appreciate and understand art, and create art in response to what they see in museum galleries. The camp “just brings kids into an awareness of what’s […]
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A number of University of Maine groups and venues are mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about affordable art, music and theater offerings in the area. They included the Collins Center for the Arts, Minsky Recital Hall, the UMaine School of Performing Arts, the University of Maine Museum of Art, Hudson Museum, Page Farm […]
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University of Maine professor of art history Justin Wolff talked with The Bowdoin Orient about the “Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860” exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. “Rather than focusing exclusively on the work of Rufus Porter, [the goal of the exhibit] is to give everyone a bit […]
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The Penobscot Times shared the University of Maine media release about the free, public exhibit “Maine’s Threatened Shell Middens: Losing a Link to Understanding our Past” in Hudson Museum’s Minsky Culture Lab. For generations, indigenous Wabanki people left heaps of harvested clams and oysters shells along the coast. Materials in the piles provide opportunities to […]
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Penobscot Marine Museum’s historic photography exhibit, “From the Cradle to the Grave” by photographer Ed Coffin, will be on display Dec. 9–March 6 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The free public exhibit in the H. Alan and Sally Fernald Art Gallery, open 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday–Friday, is a collection of two […]
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The Free Press advanced the free, public opening reception for the exhibit “What’s Art Got to Do With It?” 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The exhibit features 29 portraits by Maine photographer Lynn Karlin and an 8-foot-by-16-foot community mural inspired by designs and words of Waldo […]
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Barry Dana and Peter Neptune will demonstrate Wabanaki traditions at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Both men have participated in the annual public event — a collaboration with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance — since its inception 25 […]
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Four Wabanaki Artist Showcases will be held this fall in the Maine Indian Gallery of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. Frances Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy basketmaker, will be the featured artist 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. In November, Penobscot Butch Phillips will share his birchbark art 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Penobscot James […]
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