Category: Events | Art Galleries

Activating the Labyrinth: A Performance for Two People in Three Parts

September 6, 2025

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UNE Art Gallery Labyrinth

To celebrate the closing of our remarkable exhibit “An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary”, curated by Nelleke Mack, UNE Art Gallery Portland presents an outdoor performance by Elana Adler and Patricia Brace. Free and open to the public; refreshments served; rain date September 7th. Much like the Cottingley Fairies photographs that blurred the lines between fantasy [...]

As Above, So Below Workshop

Liz Awalt Workshop

April 16, 2025

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Girard Marine Science Center

Join Liz Awalt for a hands-on Workshop in support of her exhibit "As Above, So Below." This unique opportunity is open to all students, faculty and staff. During the workshop, Liz will guide participants through a water-based painting or drawing activity, using the tanks in the Girard Marine Science Center as inspiration. The emphasis will [...]

Circle of the Sun opening

Circle of the Sun Opening

March 7, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Circle of the Sun investigates the work of three alumni of the Arctic Circle Residency, all of whom have ties to Maine and visual vocabularies related to photography. Artists Justin Levesque, Katie McElearney, and Shoshannah White create work that poses questions about our ongoing relationships with the land, emphasizing the critical point of Arctic ecosystems’ [...]

As Above, So Below opening

February 20, 2025

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Join us on Thursday, February 20, 4 - 7 p.m. for the opening of As Above, So Below - a two-person show featuring the work of painters C. Michael Lewis and Liz Awalt. A study in contrasting perspectives on our planet, from a starting point of opticality and encompassing both the scientific and the sublime, [...]

Aftersound: A Sound Concert

January 24, 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Aftersound is a new listening series organized by Patrick Carey and Ron Harrity, focused on multi-channel / spatial audio performances and installation works in and around Portland. This will be the first of many immersive events in both dedicated music venues and less traditionally listening-oriented spaces. The name derives from Maryanne Amacher’s concept of the “after [...]

Opening the Door to Discovery: “Spark of Life” panel discussion

Opening the Door to Discovery

January 17, 2025

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Featuring Jackie Brown, Meg Brown Payson, Peter Caradonna, & Carter Shappy Peter Caradonna and UNE Histology Lab.Layers of neurons highlighting the unique organization of the retina. CGRP+ bipolar neurons (yellow), NF200+ nerve fibers (magenta), cell nuclei (cyan). Confocal microscopy. Artists Jackie Brown, Meg Brown Payson, and Carter Shappy will be joined by UNE Histology and [...]

Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery

Spark of Life opening reception

November 13, 2024

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

November 13, 2024-February 16, 2025 Opening reception Wednesday, November 13, 5-7 p.m. The UNE Art Galleries and UNE’s Histology and Imaging Core present Spark of Life: Abstraction, Microscopy, and Discovery. The work on view centers around the photography of the University’s imaging lab, in conversation with contemporary artwork. Emphasizing the materiality of abstraction, the artwork in this exhibit [...]

Studio Ecosystems: UNE Visual Art Faculty Show 2024

Studio Ecosystems opening reception

November 7, 2024

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

November 7, 2024 – February 9, 2025 With this exhibition of work from UNE faculty in the visual arts, the unique creative climate of each individual studio practice is honored. The creative process builds its own systems and psychic environments in a different way for each artist, based on research; material relationships; and narrative, and in Studio [...]

Ultrasound Dance

September 26, 2024

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

SPACE Gallery

“Ultrasound Dance” uses light, choreography and music to elevate the intensely personal experience of the ultrasound. This human-scale representation is presented as part of UNE Art Gallery Biddeford’s exhibition “Light and Shadow: Motherhood, Creativity, and the Discourse of Ability”, on view through October 20, 2024, in collaboration with SPACE Gallery. Though the heavy moments of [...]

The Numbers Game

June 7, 2024

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

June 7-October 13, 2024 Opening reception Friday, June 7, 5-8 p.m. Mathematics is the foundational, abstract system we use to find order in the world and in theory, by examining the workings of numbers. For artists, processes such as measuring, counting, segmenting, and responding to symmetry are methods that grant numbers a primary place in the [...]