Category: Portland Campus Art Gallery

Conduits of Care

Conduits of Care Opening Reception

November 20, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Art Gallery

Join us for a show that honors connection, empathy, and kindness at the root of studio practice Conduits of Care reflects the connectivity of community engagement, social consciousness, and visual art practices, through the lens of artists whose work supports an ethos of care. Both contemplative and outwardly-focused practices provide space for viewers to find [...]

Arrows & Operators: Visual Debates in Music

July 10, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Beginning in the 1950s, composers in search of new sounds and new modes of performance began to push beyond the limits of traditional notation and experiment with alternative ways of visualizing sonic thought. This exhibition juxtaposes Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise — the landmark graphic score composed between 1963 and 1967 — with works by contemporary artists [...]

Gone From My Sight

Closing reception

June 6, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

The experience of loss is universal; Gone From My Sight asks how we can witness death with a spirit of curiosity and intention while still honoring sorrow. Maine artists Jacqueline Scott, Rachel Sperry, Fran Vita-Taylor, and Ronnie Wilson, along with poet Hazel Koziol, offer a range of responses to this fundamental challenge. The exhibit features painting, sculpture, [...]

Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In

Opening and Reception

September 25, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Celebrate Deaf Resilience and Creativity

October 25, 2025 - October 25, 2026

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026 Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine’s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster’s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues [...]

Activating the Labyrinth: A Performance for Two People in Three Parts

September 6, 2025

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UNE Art Gallery Labyrinth

To celebrate the closing of our remarkable exhibit “An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary”, curated by Nelleke Mack, UNE Art Gallery Portland presents an outdoor performance by Elana Adler and Patricia Brace. Free and open to the public; refreshments served; rain date September 7th. Much like the Cottingley Fairies photographs that blurred the lines between fantasy [...]

An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary

Opening Reception

July 10, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Artwork from the Stephen K. Halpert Photographic Collection at UNE; curated by Nelleke Mack July 10 - September 7, 2025 Opening reception Thursday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. In 1917, two girls set off into the woods of West Yorkshire to make some magic. Elsie, aged 16, and Frances, aged 9, borrowed a quarter-plate camera to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New Photography at UNE Art Gallery

Recent Aquisitions in the Stephen K. Halpert Collection of Photography

February 16, 2024

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Join us to celebrate the new acquisitions in our collection. The display showcases new photographic works procured by Stephen K. Halpert, curator of photography at UNE, in his signature narrative curatorial style, focusing on his longstanding interest in work that documents diverse perceptions of daily life in Maine and across the world. The show, open [...]