Join us to celebrate creative research!

The UMaine Arts Initiative (UMAI) is pleased to present the winners of a new competitive seed grant program, created to encourage innovative and interdisciplinary collaborations that seek to build a diverse, inclusive, sustainable and equitable community of art researchers, practitioners, supporters and promoters. The participants will present on their projects:

Technology and Tradition: Shaping Indigenous Collections for the Future
Gretchen Faulkner, Director, Hudson Museum

The Island Soundscape Project
N.B. Aldrich, Associate Professor of Art
Steve Norton, Independent researcher

Art & Creative Ecologies Series
Susan Smith, Associate Research Professor of Art, Graduate Coordinator of Intermedia Programs, Department of Art
Justin Wolff, Chair, Department of Art, Professor of Art History

I Give You My Home: a site-specific opera and its historical background
Beth Wiemann, Director, Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, Professor, Music Division

Blending Migratory Wildlife Science, Curatorial Practice, and Visual Arts for High School Educational Programming
Amber Roth, Assistant Professor of Forest Wildlife Management
George Kinghorn, Executive Director and Curator, Zillman Art Museum

Enjoy light refreshments with us in-person at the IMRC Center at 3:30pm on October 19th OR register to attend via Zoom!