University of New England - Innovation for a Healthier Planet

April is National Poetry Month

And we're celebrating with haiku! Take a moment out of your day to write a simple verse or two. As a reminder, a haiku consists of three lines of verse with five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Stations are set up in the libraries for you to use if you wish. Here are some [...]

Circle of the Sun

Circle of the Sun Opening

March 7, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

March 7-June 8, 2025 Circle of the Sun investigates the work of three alumni of the Arctic Circle Residency, all of whom have ties to Maine and visual vocabularies related to photography. Artists Justin Levesque, Katie McElearney, and Shoshannah White create work that poses questions about our ongoing relationships with the land, emphasizing the critical point of Arctic ecosystems’ impact on our [...]

As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below Opening

February 20, 2025

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

As Above, So Below Workshop

April 16, 2025 - April 16, 2026

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Girard Marine Science Center

February 20 - May 4, 2025 As Above, So Below is a two-person show featuring the work of painters C. Michael Lewis and Liz Awalt.  A study in contrasting perspectives on our planet, from a starting point of opticality and encompassing both the scientific and the sublime, “As Above, So Below” focuses on artwork by two [...]

Archives Month!

Archives Month Fun

October 31, 2024

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Ketchum Library

Did you know that October is American Archives Month? Stop by Ketchum Library for snacks and fun archives-themed activities! Thursday, October 31, 202411 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come meet your friendly UNE archivists!

Ultrasound Dance

September 26, 2024

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

SPACE Gallery

“Ultrasound Dance” uses light, choreography and music to elevate the intensely personal experience of the ultrasound. This human-scale representation is presented as part of UNE Art Gallery Biddeford’s exhibition “Light and Shadow: Motherhood, Creativity, and the Discourse of Ability”, on view through October 20, 2024, in collaboration with SPACE Gallery. Though the heavy moments of [...]

Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery

Spark of Life opening reception

November 13, 2024

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Panel Discussion

January 17, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

The UNE Art Galleries and UNE’s Histology and Imaging Core present Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery. The work on view centers around the photography of the University’s imaging lab, in conversation with contemporary artwork. Emphasizing the materiality of abstraction, the artwork in this exhibit works together to build a complex sense of harmony revolving around a [...]

Studio Ecosystems: UNE Visual Art Faculty Show 2024

November 7, 2024 - February 9, 2025

Biddeford Art Gallery

November 7, 2024 – February 9, 2025 With this exhibition of work from UNE faculty in the visual arts, the unique creative climate of each individual studio practice is honored. The creative process builds its own systems and psychic environments in a different way for each artist, based on research; material relationships; and narrative, and in Studio [...]

Donna M. Loring Lecture

A Salute to Cpt. Joanne Murphy and the Women Who Served in Vietnam

October 1, 2024

12:00 pm

Bush Center Boardroom, UNE Biddeford Campus

A Salute to Cpt. Joanne Murphy and the Women Who Served in Vietnam Tuesday, October 1 at 12 p.m. In person and online:Bush Center Boardroom, UNE Biddeford CampusDirections and Campus MapLivestreamed on une.edu/live Captain Joanne P. Murphy was Donna Loring’s Commanding Officer while they served together in the combat zone at Long Binh during the Vietnam War, and Murphy’s bequest has [...]

The Numbers Game

June 7, 2024

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

June 7-October 13, 2024 Opening reception Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. Mathematics is the foundational, abstract system we use to find order in the world and in theory, by examining the workings of numbers. For artists, processes such as measuring, counting, segmenting, and responding to symmetry are methods that grant numbers a primary place in the [...]

Inspiration in the Archives

Inspiration in the Archives: A Conversation about Poetry

May 8, 2024

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Maine Women Writers Collection

With poet and teacher Beth Alison Jones, & poet and archivist Jefferson Navicky Facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Tuttle, Director of the Maine Women Writers CollectionFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FMI, please contact MWWC Curator Sarah Baker Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC). Beth [...]