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![<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\nUnspoken Resilience<\/em> celebrates Maine\u2019s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster\u2019s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues of communication access, and recognizes ASL interpreters, who offer a linguistic and social bridge between the distinct cultures of Deaf individuals who use ASL and people who cannot sign. Co-curated with Michelle Ames and Meryl Troop, the show is a site of both remembrance and creative action.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMaine\u2019s Deaf community is vibrant and bright, and was disproportionately impacted by the mass shooting in Lewiston on October 25th, 2023, which left 18 people dead and 13 injured. One of the deadliest mass shootings in US history, it is believed to be the only example in the country to impact the Deaf community so severely; over 20% of the victims were Deaf. The tragedy claimed the lives of four Deaf community members; wounded two; and traumatized many more, as in-person ASL interpretation services were withheld by authorities at hospitals and other official settings during the unfolding event. Unspoken Resilience<\/em> offers a place of healing, recognition, and learning, both centering the enduring creativity of the Deaf community in the group of artworks curated by Ames and Troop, and uplifting Lewiston in Kolster\u2019s sensitive, luminous cityscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026 Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine\u2019s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster\u2019s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[76,77,80,79,25,78,75],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-portland-campus-art-gallery","tag-deaf-community","tag-lewiston","tag-mass-shooting","tag-meryl-troop","tag-michael-kolster","tag-michelle-ames","tag-resilience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/IMG_1475.jpg\"){kind=link}
Unspoken Resilience<\/em> celebrates Maine\u2019s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster\u2019s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues of communication access, and recognizes ASL interpreters, who offer a linguistic and social bridge between the distinct cultures of Deaf individuals who use ASL and people who cannot sign. Co-curated with Michelle Ames and Meryl Troop, the show is a site of both remembrance and creative action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maine\u2019s Deaf community is vibrant and bright, and was disproportionately impacted by the mass shooting in Lewiston on October 25th, 2023, which left 18 people dead and 13 injured. One of the deadliest mass shootings in US history, it is believed to be the only example in the country to impact the Deaf community so severely; over 20% of the victims were Deaf. The tragedy claimed the lives of four Deaf community members; wounded two; and traumatized many more, as in-person ASL interpretation services were withheld by authorities at hospitals and other official settings during the unfolding event. Unspoken Resilience<\/em> offers a place of healing, recognition, and learning, both centering the enduring creativity of the Deaf community in the group of artworks curated by Ames and Troop, and uplifting Lewiston in Kolster\u2019s sensitive, luminous cityscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026 Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine\u2019s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster\u2019s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[76,77,80,79,25,78,75],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-portland-campus-art-gallery","tag-deaf-community","tag-lewiston","tag-mass-shooting","tag-meryl-troop","tag-michael-kolster","tag-michelle-ames","tag-resilience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}