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Speculative Histories Feature

The current Portland Campus Art Gallery exhibit, Speculative Histories, was recently featured by Portland Press Herald staff writer Bob Keys in the To Do section. Keys interviews Gallery Director Hilary Irons and emphasizes her efforts to make the exhibit accessible remotely via Zoom tours, available through June 13. Read the article.

Speculative Histories & Material Culture

Speculative Histories & Material Culture

March 19, 2021 - June 13, 2021

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Featuring historical African masks from the collection of Oscar Mokeme in juxtaposition with site-specific installation by Asata Radcliffe. Radcliffe is an artist, writer, and filmmaker with a focus on participatory, history-based installations which emphasize science fiction, and a speculative approach to the African diasporic and Indigenous experience. Her installation (created in collaboration with other Maine […]

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene

January 29, 2021 - May 14, 2021

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Curated by Megan Grumbling and Jenna Crowder Persephone in the Late Anthropocene is a response by three visual artists to a poetry volume of the same name by Megan Grumbling, which presents a sequel to the Persephone myth and sets it in the age of climate crisis. Poet and artists reflect on the imagery and experience of climate crisis, […]

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Exhibit Video

Not able to travel to campus? Don’t miss out on our current exhibit Cut with the Kitchen Knife by artists Cecilia Ackerman and Devon Kelley-Yurdin with our new video tour of the exhibit space.

UNE Art Gallery Presents: Studiolab

Studiolab is an ongoing series of remote studio visits hosted by the UNE Art Gallery.  We highlight the studio practices of artists in our community, whose interdisciplinary work intersects with the sciences and other field. Andy Rosen Our first video features UNE faculty member Andy Rosen. Andy is an artist who has gained recognition through […]

Dress Codes

Dress Codes

October 1, 2019 - January 6, 2020

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

“Dress Codes” is an exhibition and collaboration with artist Nancy Grace Horton coming to UNE this fall. Nancy Grace Horton is a photography-based artist who embraces both analog and digital techniques to create bold narrative fragments informed by her background in photojournalism. Her MrMrs series taps into her interest in gender and culture and visually explores men who […]

The Complete City: Imagined

The Complete City: Imagined

October 24, 2019 - January 31, 2020

Since 2017, The Portland Society for Architecture has been using blank maps of Portland, Maine as a tool for citizen engagement. This project, called “Mapping Portland: The Complete City,” provides the platform to collect ideas and inspiration about our city: what we love, what we don’t, and what we can imagine. To date more than 350 maps have been collected […]

The Art of the Comic

The Art of the Comic

July 10, 2019 - October 6, 2019

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Featuring the work of 28 local comic and sequential artists, illustrators, and professional doodlers, “The Art of the Comic” explores the diversity of styles and subject matter that characterizes comics and related media. The exhibition also showcases the comic series The Pirate Ship, a collaboration between comic artists Bob Bergeron and UNE alum Katy Finch (M.S.W. ’18) […]

No One Fights Alone: World War II in the Pacific

No One Fights Alone: World War II in the Pacific

April 26, 2019 - June 15, 2019

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Using the archival collections of the University of New England’s Library Services Department of Special Collections, specifically, the Randall J. Cushing Collection of War Letters, history professor Elizabeth DeWolfe’s HIS 290: History Hands On students have built a professional-level museum exhibit open to the public. “No One Fights Alone: WWII in the Pacific,” was researched, designed, and installed by […]

My Creativity Heals Myself and Others: Martha A. Hall’s Artists’ Books

My Creativity Heals Myself and Others: Martha A. Hall's Artists' Books

August 27, 2018 - December 14, 2018

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Martha Hall’s artists’ books explore the experience of living with cancer and the frustrations and vulnerabilities inherent in living with chronic, life-threatening illness. Hall hoped to use her books to create dialogue with health care providers and students in health professions training. Hall’s books draw the reader in to share the deepest fears and greatest discoveries that […]