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

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, […]

Write Again Soon: Letters from World War II

Write Again Soon: Letters from World War II

December 4, 2014 - April 15, 2015

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

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: Bernard Langlais at UNE

The Maine Artist’s Animals: Bernard Langlais at UNE

September 15, 2014 - December 2, 2014

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

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 […]