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
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
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 […]
The Maine Artist’s Animals: Bernard Langlais at UNE
September 15, 2014 - December 2, 2014
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
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 Foundation’s 2014 gift to UNE’s permanent […]
13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational
June 6, 2014 - October 31, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
The 13th Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational at the University of New England is scheduled to open June 6, 2014 and run through October 31, 2014. An Opening Reception, free to the public, will be held on Friday, June 6 from 4-6 p.m. Works of sculpture by 16 artists will be placed in the UNE Art Gallery’s Vestibule […]
Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage
June 26, 2014 - September 28, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Collage, from the French ‘coller (to glue),’ has been with us since the Chinese invented paper in 200 BCE, through the middle ages, into 17th century Venice when découpage (from découper, to cut out’) became fashionable, right on through to the present day. But modern collage as a formal artistic technique is considered to have […]
2014 Art Department Faculty Exhibition
February 5, 2014 - February 23, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
A biennial tradition since 2002, the exhibition highlights the diverse studio practices of UNE’s teaching artists. Recent works and works in progress are presented in a representative range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, 3D printing and illustration. The following faculty members will display work: Stephen Burt, Corliss Chastain, Jen McDermott, Sarah Gorham, Holly Haywood, Joe […]
Joe Guertin: A Graphic Designer Remembered
November 6, 2013 - January 26, 2014
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Joe Guertin (1940-2010) was highly involved as a teacher and graphic designer in the art and design community of Portland from the early 1970’s onward, serving as head of the Department of Graphic Design at the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art) and on the advisory committee for the Payson Building at […]
A Mountain Rises: The Art of Katahdin
July 31, 2013 - October 27, 2013
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Co-curators David Little and Stephen Halpert mounted an exhibition of approximately 80 historic and contemporary works of art that represented Mount Katahdin and surrounding region. Included were works by Sanford Gifford, Jervis McEntee, James Fitzgerald, Marsden Hartley, Carl Sprinchorn, Maurice “Jake” Day, Vincent Hartgen, William Kienbusch, and many living artists, including Susan Siegel, Michael Boardman, Sam Cady, Alice […]
Maine Women Pioneers III - Dirigo
June 22, 2013 - July 21, 2013
Portland Campus Art Gallery
Maine Women Pioneers III was co-curated by Anne B. Zill, Gael May McKibben and Andres A. Verzosa. This exhibition was the third on this subject in the history of this Art Gallery, striving for national impact in defining pioneering Maine women artists of our age. Dirigo was the fourth and final exhibition of the Maine Women Pioneers III series, offering the works […]
