Art Galleries

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 […]

A new traveling exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, examining concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, is showing now through April 12, 2017 in the UNE Art Gallery in the Ketchum Library on the UNE Biddeford Campus. This exhibition, produced by the National Library of […]

BY PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT PENNINGTON The University of New England’s Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library Art Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition, ZERO ~ los desplazados de Colombia, photography in black and white by Robert Pennington, running from January 26 through March 1, 2017.  ZERO is an intimate study that examines the lives of Colombia’s desplazados (displaced). It is a story about people; those who […]

AN EXHIBIT OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY DR. FRANK WILLARD, PH.D.CURATED BY ORAN SUTA Cadaveric dissection has long been a rite of passage for physicians. There is no book that can impart the lessons that this experience can, challenging the intellect, hand-skill and integrity of the initiate. The donor’s gift challenges the assured authority of textbooks, demonstrating innumerable variations […]

FIZIKS is the result of Bernard’s research, experimentation and collaboration with the physicists at Harvard University where she is the artist in residence. This solo exhibit includes polyhedron pattern paintings, an interactive grid and cube of oscillating balls that invite the viewer to engage their motion and crocheted hyperbolic planes made out of recycled bicycle […]

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 […]

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, […]

An exhibit created by UNE undergraduate history students opened at the Biddeford Campus’ Jack S. Ketchum Library on December 4, 2014. The exhibit features images and letters from World War II, with interpretive text researched and written by students. It encompasses three different themes: The Homefront; Frontlines; and Romance and relationships in WWII. Students researched primary […]

The Maine Artist’s Animals gathered paintings, drawings and sculptures that together highlight a powerful concern in his work: how to explore the aesthetics of form through animal representation. Whether in paint, pencil or pen as well as with paper, formica, wood and nails, the artworks chosen here from the Kohler Foundation’s 2014 gift to UNE’s permanent […]