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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 Thayer, who am I 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 [...]

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 [...]

A Gateless Garden

A Gateless Garden

January 20, 2015 - April 12, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

The exhibition, edited by Dr. Liza Bakewell, director of Maine Women Write, pairs 53 quotes by Maine women writers with black and white images by photographer Kerry Michaels. The quotes are letterpress printing by Scott Vile of Freeport, Maine. The book, A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers, accompanies the exhibit and contains 100 quotes and 100 [...]

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 [...]

Coyote Connections

Coyote Connections

October 9, 2014 - January 15, 2015

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Featured guest: UNE professor Noah Perlut Coyote Connections features works by 31 Maine artists celebrating the Coyote and its relationships with the wild, the land, fellow wildlife, prey, families—mates, pups and parents—and with us humans as well. Included are sculpture, drawings, photographs, prints and paintings created in styles both figurative and abstract. Our Native People [...]