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A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers

A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers

August 24, 2016 - December 16, 2016

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

BY PHOTOGRAPHER KERRY MICHAELS, EDITOR DR. LIZA BLAKEWELL Kerry Michaels. Kezar Leaves. silver gelatin print. The Biddeford Campus UNE Art Gallery will present an exhibition titled "A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers" from August 24 - December 16, 2016. The exhibition features 53 quotations by Maine women writers, edited by Liza Bakewell, Ph.D., director of Maine Women [...]

Anatomy Dissection: The quest for knowledge and beauty

Anatomy Dissection: The quest for knowledge and beauty

April 12, 2016 - August 16, 2016

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

AN EXHIBIT OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY DR. FRANK WILLARD, PH.D.CURATED BY ORAN SUTA Dr. Frank Willard, Anatomy detail of feet from three angles. Photograph. 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 [...]

FIZIKS: Freakin’ Impossible Zonking In Kinetic Studies

FIZIKS: Freakin' Impossible Zonking In Kinetic Studies

January 16, 2016

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Kim Bernard, Quiver. Kinetic sculpture. 48 x 48 x 6 inches, 2015. 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 [...]

Ant Farm: at the Nexus of Art and Science: merging art and science through the visual exploration of leafcutter ants

Ant Farm: at the Nexus of Art and Science: merging art and science through the visual exploration of leafcutter ants

August 17, 2015 - December 18, 2015

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

A Collaborative Exhibition by Dorothy Schwartz, Rebecca Goodale, Vivian Russe and Colleen Kinsella The Ant Girls, exhibit panels 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 [...]

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

Bernard Langlais. Grasshopper. Carved Wood Relief. 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 [...]