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The Art of the Comic

The Art of the Comic

July 10, 2019 - October 6, 2019

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Featuring the work of 28 local comic and sequential artists, illustrators, and professional doodlers, "The Art of the Comic" explores the diversity of styles and subject matter that characterizes comics and related media. The exhibition also showcases the comic series The Pirate Ship, a collaboration between comic artists Bob Bergeron and UNE alum Katy Finch (M.S.W. ’18) [...]

The Dolphin Brain

The Dolphin Brain: The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962-2004

July 8, 2019 - September 26, 2019

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

The Peter J. Morgane Research Collection on the Cetacean Brain, 1962–2004 Throughout history, the results of scientific research have been expressed through the lens of artistic interpretation. Such artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Vesalius expressed complex visible and hidden anatomical and physical structures of humans, animals, and natural phenomena. This exhibition shows some of [...]

No One Fights Alone: World War II in the Pacific

No One Fights Alone: World War II in the Pacific

April 26, 2019 - June 15, 2019

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Using the archival collections of the University of New England's Library Services Department of Special Collections, specifically, the Randall J. Cushing Collection of War Letters, history professor Elizabeth DeWolfe’s HIS 290: History Hands On students have built a professional-level museum exhibit open to the public. "No One Fights Alone: WWII in the Pacific," was researched, designed, and installed by [...]

Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined

Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined

January 14, 2019 - April 15, 2019

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

The Art Gallery at the Ketchum Library on the Biddeford Campus of the University of New England is pleased to present Mackworth Island Transformed — Rocks Reimagined. The exhibition features the photography of Tim Greenway, a local professional and commercial photographer, who also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New England where he teaches digital [...]

My Creativity Heals Myself and Others: Martha A. Hall’s Artists’ Books

My Creativity Heals Myself and Others: Martha A. Hall's Artists' Books

August 27, 2018 - December 14, 2018

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Martha Hall's artists' books explore the experience of living with cancer and the frustrations and vulnerabilities inherent in living with chronic, life-threatening illness. Hall hoped to use her books to create dialogue with health care providers and students in health professions training. Hall's books draw the reader in to share the deepest fears and greatest discoveries that [...]

Elemental Changes

Elemental Changes

January 31, 2018 - July 24, 2018

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Featuring Recent Artwork by Stephen Burt, M.F.A., Chair, UNE Department of Arts The Art Gallery at the UNE Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library presented the collaborative artistic project “Elemental Changes,” a visualization of the climatic changes possible in the era of the Anthropocene.  Artist's StatementArtists, like scientists, engage in research and scholarship. Their lab is the studio. Working [...]

Pain Chronicles: Photomicrographs and Personal Stories

Pain Chronicles: Photomicrographs and Personal Stories

September 14, 2017 - December 15, 2017

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

This unique exhibition features dramatic color images of cells of the nervous system, from fruit flies and mammals, which together illustrate the diverse nature of neurons involved in the development of chronic pain. These images, taken by UNE neuroscience investigators (students, staff, and faculty) using cutting edge microscopy demonstrate the simple and elegant beauty of cells that [...]

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 [...]