The coronavirus pandemic has necessitated the closing of theaters, cafes, clubs, bookstores, libraries, performance spaces, art galleries, and other gathering places across the U.S. and around the world, bringing much of our cultural life to a screeching halt. It has sparked endless debate over what activities are deemed essential to a functioning society. To gallery […]
Category: Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
SANCTUARY
Sanctuary
January 15, 2020 - May 15, 2020
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
SANCTUARY is a traveling art installation to be exhibited in medical centers, hospitals, art galleries, and academic sites across the US. Writer Emily Rapp Black, and artist Carrie Scanga, will interpret viewers’ stories of medical circumstances in visual and textual forms in an ever-changing paper installation accompanied by written text. In each venue, viewers are […]
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 Dolphin Brain
The Dolphin Brain: The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962-2004
July 8, 2019 - September 26, 2019
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962–2004 Throughout history, the results of scientific research have been expressed through the lens of artistic interpretation. Such artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Vesalius expressed complex visible and hidden anatomical and physical structures of humans, animals, and natural phenomena. This exhibition shows some of […]
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 […]
Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined
Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined
January 14, 2019 - April 15, 2019
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
The Art Gallery at the Ketchum Library on the Biddeford Campus of the University of New England is pleased to present Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined. The exhibition features the photography of Tim Greenway, a local professional and commercial photographer, who also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New England where he teaches digital […]
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 […]
Elemental Changes
Elemental Changes
January 31, 2018 - July 24, 2018
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Featuring Recent Artwork by Stephen Burt, M.F.A., Chair, UNE Department of Arts The Art Gallery at the UNE Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library presented the collaborative artistic project “Elemental Changes,” a visualization of the climatic changes possible in the era of the Anthropocene. Artist’s StatementArtists, like scientists, engage in research and scholarship. Their lab is the studio. Working […]
Pain Chronicles: Photomicrographs and Personal Stories
Pain Chronicles: Photomicrographs and Personal Stories
September 14, 2017 - December 15, 2017
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
This unique exhibition features dramatic color images of cells of the nervous system, from fruit flies and mammals, which together illustrate the diverse nature of neurons involved in the development of chronic pain. These images, taken by UNE neuroscience investigators (students, staff, and faculty) using cutting edge microscopy demonstrate the simple and elegant beauty of cells that […]
Lost Landscapes
Lost Landscapes
April 18, 2017 - August 1, 2017
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
An exhibition ofplein airpaintings by Charles Matthew Thompson, UNE Professor of Art and founder of the UNE Department of Fine Arts, will be on view in the UNE Art Gallery, Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus, from April 18, 2017 through August 1, 2017. While visiting the Dyer Library in Saco, Maine, Thompson came upon a book from the […]