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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 […]

NATIVE VOICES: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness and KIKEHTAHSUWIW — “It Heals”

NATIVE VOICES: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness and KIKEHTAHSUWIW — “It Heals”

March 6, 2017 - April 12, 2017

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

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 […]

ZERO ~los desplazados de Colombia, photography in black and white

ZERO ~los desplazados de Colombia, photography in black and white

January 26, 2017 - March 1, 2017

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

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 […]

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 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 Write, paired with black and white images […]

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 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: Freakin’ Impossible Zonking In Kinetic Studies

FIZIKS: Freakin' Impossible Zonking In Kinetic Studies

January 16, 2016

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens

The Paintings of John Calvin Stevens

April 21, 2015 - July 19, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Today John Calvin Stevens is remembered for his distinguished six-decade career as Maine’s leading architect of the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. From 1880 to 1940, Stevens designed hundreds of homes and buildings throughout Maine, as far south as Virginia, and as far west as Colorado. Overshadowed by these professional achievements is Stevens’ lifelong passion for […]

Color Fields Printed Paintings

Color Fields Printed Paintings

February 3, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

A new resident of Maine, Joan Busing has had an illustrious career in New York, and this exhibition on the Lower Level of the UNE Art Gallery will introduce this artist to our state. Several bodies of work are on display, including her Moon series, for which she studied the phases of the moon for many […]