Author: Amanda Leen | Art Galleries

As Above, So Below Workshop

Liz Awalt Workshop

April 16, 2025

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Girard Marine Science Center

Join Liz Awalt for a hands-on Workshop in support of her exhibit "As Above, So Below." This unique opportunity is open to all students, faculty and staff. During the workshop, Liz will guide participants through a water-based painting or drawing activity, using the tanks in the Girard Marine Science Center as inspiration. The emphasis will [...]

Aftersound: A Sound Concert

January 24, 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Aftersound is a new listening series organized by Patrick Carey and Ron Harrity, focused on multi-channel / spatial audio performances and installation works in and around Portland. This will be the first of many immersive events in both dedicated music venues and less traditionally listening-oriented spaces. The name derives from Maryanne Amacher’s concept of the “after [...]

Artist Brunch

November 27, 2023

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Ketchum Art Gallery

Join us and meet with artists Rebecca Goodale, Gretchen Halpert, Raquel P. Miller, and student-cartographer Matthew Pittsley. The exhibit "Seeking Light: Plants from Shoreline to Canopy in the Arts and Sciences" takes a look at the specificity of plants through various creative lenses. Snacks will be provided, and the artists will speak about their processes. [...]

Of and About the Road: The Automobile in History, Society, and the Environment

Of and About the Road Opening

January 20, 2023

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

January 13-April 21, 2023 This exhibit has been co-curated with multi-media assemblage artist Dan Dowd to explore the automobile as a source of creative energy for artists, as well as its historical and ongoing role in society and in the environment. Featuring the work of: Philip Brou, Jamie Chan, Jarid del Deo, Dan Dowd, John [...]

Sights & Sounds of Other Realms

October 29, 2022

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery & Ludke Auditorium

Join us for a free photography exhibit & band concert featuring photographer Michael Kolster's exhibition "Home & Other Realms" as well as music by the Southern Maine New Horizon's Band directed by Nina Anderson. Pre-Registration is required. Information on parking and other instructions will be sent by email. SIGHTS: This two‐part exhibition highlights the recent [...]

River to the Sea: UNE Faculty Exhibition

River to the Sea Opening

October 14, 2022

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

This exhibition will feature work by UNE visual arts faculty, using the narrative framework of water rights and water access in the State of Maine, and highlighting the individual studio work of faculty in all of its complexity. Opening Reception Friday, October 14 from 4 - 6 p.m. in the Ketchum Art Gallery in the [...]

Lives of the Jewelers Artists’ Talks and Closing Reception

Lives of the Jewelers Artists' Talks

October 7, 2022

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

UNE Art Gallery in Portland, Maine will host an artist talk and closing reception, in conjunction with "The Lives of the Jewelers", up through October 9th at the UNE Art Gallery in Portland. Several artists in the exhibit, including Ebenezer Akakpo, Aminata Conteh, Naomi Grace McNeill, and Sharon Portelance, will discuss their practices. Refreshments will be served; [...]

Home Fires

Home Fires Opening Reception

October 22, 2021

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Home Fires October 22, 2021-January 23, 2022 Part of the statewide exhibition partnership “Freedom and Captivity,” “Home Fires” centers the narrative of the families and loved ones of incarcerated people. The experience of having a family member, loved one, or friend who has been through the carceral system, or having family history that involves incarceration, [...]

String Revolution: Textile and Visual Artifact

May 21, 2021 - September 24, 2021

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Co-curated by Elizabeth DeWolfe and Hilary Irons “So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth.”Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years “String Revolution: Textile and Visual Artifact” combines [...]

Sculpting the Virtual Future

June 3, 2021

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Online Event

Join the UNE Art Galleries and the Indigo Alliance online for an artist talk with Firefly the Hybrid, of Decontie & Brown. Firefly's new short film "Digital Triptych", is currently on view as part of the exhibition "Speculative Histories & Material Culture" at the UNE Art Gallery, Portland Campus. Looking at the inevitable transition to [...]