Year: 2015 | Art Galleries

Ant Farm: at the Nexus of Art and Science: merging art and science through the visual exploration of leafcutter ants

August 17, 2015 - December 18, 2015

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

A Collaborative Exhibition by Dorothy Schwartz, Rebecca Goodale, Vivian Russe and Colleen Kinsella A collaboration of four printmakers, known as the Ant Girls, created this exhibit in a eusocial way to imitate the social structure of leaf cutting ants. The Ant Girls are four Maine-based artists working collaboratively to merge art and science through the visual […]

Focusing on Home and Beyond: The Photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, 1897‐1937

April 30, 2015 - August 19, 2015

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Throughout the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) returned home to Kingfield, Maine, each summer to document the family homestead, rural life, traditional labor practices and the many pleasures of summer. Trained in drawing, painting, and as an art educator, Emmons gravitated toward photography when her twin brothers, F.E. and F.O. Stanley, […]

The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens

April 21, 2015 - July 19, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Today John Calvin Stevens is remembered for his distinguished six-decade career as Maine’s leading architect of the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. From 1880 to 1940, Stevens designed hundreds of homes and buildings throughout Maine, as far south as Virginia, and as far west as Colorado. Overshadowed by these professional achievements is Stevens’ lifelong passion for […]

Color Fields Printed Paintings

February 3, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

A new resident of Maine, Joan Busing has had an illustrious career in New York, and this exhibition on the Lower Level of the UNE Art Gallery will introduce this artist to our state. Several bodies of work are on display, including her Moon series, for which she studied the phases of the moon for many […]

A Gateless Garden

January 20, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

The exhibition, edited by Dr. Liza Bakewell, director of Maine Women Write, pairs 53 quotes by Maine women writers with black and white images by photographer Kerry Michaels. The quotes are letterpress printing by Scott Vile of Freeport, Maine. The book, A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers, accompanies the exhibit and contains 100 quotes and 100 […]