March 6 - June 8, 2026 Please join the UNE Art Gallery and Westbrook College Alumni Weekend for a closing reception for our remarkable exhibition Gone From My Sight. Artist walkthroughs; live music; food and drink! Free and open to the public, no registration required. We hope to see you there! The experience of loss is [...]
June 5 - October 25, 2026 Another Shore looks at issues surrounding climate migration, political disruption, and how even a simple act of relocation is an act of upheaval and faith. Artists include Portsmouth artist Sachiko Akiyama, whose carved wood sculptures evoke voyages and transformation; New York sculptor M. Annenberg, who looks at the human impacts [...]
For 17 years, the MWWC has been hosting the Donna M. Loring Lecture Series, a space for education, dialogue, and reflection on issues such as Indigenous rights, environmental advocacy, civil rights, social justice, and human rights. Will you give a little to help support this work? We are excited to be participating in UNE’s Giving [...]
15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History
March 26, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
MWWC
Join us for this celebration of Women’s History Month with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe! Refreshments start at 4:30 p.m. If “well-behaved women seldom make history,” as historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously quipped, ill-behaved women certainly dominated the historical headlines. Such women were branded as passive, irrational, or depraved, their lives reduced to colorful [...]
Join us on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 for a writing workshop led by 2025 MWWC Creative Fellow Maya Williams. Participants will review the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, Donna M. Loring, Annie Finch, and Emily Taylor Perkins and then spend some time writing poetry about grief. Free and open to the public. Maya Williams (ey/they/she) [...]
December 4, 2025 - May 17, 2026 Direct Snap looks into the pattern, ritual, and focus inherent to athletics. Artists Jo Ophardt (working with football imagery) and Miguel Pavón (looking at boxers and their environment) present work that investigates the psyche of the athlete and the collaboration of the spectator. Like a sporting event, the [...]
Three Indigenous women stood side by side at the front of the St. Francis Room at the University of New England as more chairs were brought in for the growing audience of 125. Read more about this year's Donna Loring Lecture that took place Tuesday, October 28 on the Biddeford Campus. View the recorded event.
Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026 Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine’s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster’s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues [...]
Join UNE librarian Sonya Durney to learn more about Open Educational Resources! This workshop will introduce faculty to open textbooks – one type of OER, and the benefits these textbooks offer: affordability, pedagogical practice, student learning, and engagement. The workshop will also cover grant-funded opportunities to review, adopt, or create OER. Wednesday, October 15Time: 2:00 [...]
Narrative Medicine & Visual Art: Opening Perception and Sharpening Observation for Health Professions Learners
October 8, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Join us for a vibrant evening of art, conversation, and connection at the UNE Biddeford Campus Art Gallery! This interprofessional event brings together health professions students for a unique exploration of how visual art can deepen clinical observation and enhance medical understanding. Featuring: Sophie Hamacher, Artist & Filmmaker Dr. Andrew Eisenhower, Cardiologist Hilary Irons, UNE [...]
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