University of New England - Innovation for a Healthier Planet

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

September 28, 2022

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Join us for a weekly exploration of mindful-awareness practices that will help you to build a friendly relationship with your mind and allow you space to relax and reflect. We will meet for 30 minutes on Wednesdays to cultivate curiosity and happiness, with guided activities such as reflective writing, walking meditation, and focus on the […]

Jack S. Ketchum Birthday Party

Jack S. Ketchum Birthday Party

September 15, 2022

11:30 am - 3:00 pm

Ketchum Library main floor

Come celebrate the birthday of former UNE President and library namesake Jack S. Ketchum. We’ll have cornhole and board games, birthday cake, prizes and a raffle for a Chromebook.

Advocacy & Tea

Advocacy & Tea

September 8, 2022

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Wish you could join a book club but don’t have time to read the books? Join us for an article/video club on issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hosted by UNE Librarians Cathleen Miller and Sonya Durney. Join us the 2nd Thursday of every month from 3-4 p.m. in the Ketchum Art Gallery in the […]

The Lives of the Jewelers

Reception for The Lives of the Jewelers

July 1, 2022

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Curated by Maria Wolff & Hilary Irons July 1-October 9, 2022  Join us for an opening reception on Friday, July 1, 4 to 7 p.m. From the forms of the region’s plants and animals to global social and cultural histories, inspirations abound for Maine Jewelers, who use metals and other precious materials to embody their […]

Found in the Archives

Found in the Archives

May 12, 2022 - May 22, 2022

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Online

Join us for an evening of stories discovered in archives with Dawn Potter (poet), Elizabeth DeWolfe (UNE history professor), and Carol Dana (Penobscot language master). Watch via Zoom, on the web, or on Facebook live. Dawn Potter is the author of nine books, most recently the poetry collection Accidental Hymn, forthcoming this spring. She directs poetry and teaching programs at […]

Place and Narrative in the North Atlantic

Place and Narrative in the North Atlantic

April 7, 2022

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

UNE Art Gallery at the Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library

Join UNE North director Holly Parker for a panel conversation with artists Ingunn Milla Joergensen & Alice Jones on the topic of a sense of place in the North Atlantic region’s different nations. As part of the UNE Art Gallery’s ongoing series of interdisciplinary public talks revolving around gallery exhibitions and academic overlap, this talk […]

Make a Zine!

Make a Zine!

April 1, 2022

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Do you enjoy making things? Enjoy writing or art, comics or doodling? Feel passionately about something that you want to share with others? Cool! Join us for a Zine workshop on Friday April 1 from 6-7:30pm in the Ketchum Library Art Gallery. We’ll have all the supplies you need to walk away with your own […]

Homesick: Architects as Essential Health Care Workers

Homesick: Architects as Essential Health Care Workers

March 24, 2022

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Online

Jon Calame presents “Homesick: Architects as Essential Health Care Workers” as part of UNE Art Gallery lecture series “Homesick: Architects as Essential Health Care Workers” is part of the UNE Art Gallery’s ongoing series of remote interdisciplinary public talks revolving around gallery exhibitions and academic overlap.  In the context of “Sensing Place”, at the UNE […]

Home Fires: Incarceration & Children

Home Fires: Incarceration & Children

November 3, 2021

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Online

Join us for a special event in conjunction with “Home Fires: Freedom & Captivity” Wednesday evening! UNE Art Galleries present: “Home Fires: Incarceration & Children”, a remote conversation with Jan Collins, M.Ed., Assistant Director of Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition. November 3, 2021, at 6pm. Zoom broadcast with Q&A: une.zoom.us/j/92287556047 Free and open to the public. […]

Open House

Open House

September 25, 2021

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Please join us for an Open House on Saturday, September 25, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. at the UNE Art Gallery on the Portland Campus. (Rain date: Sunday, September 26) Beginning Thursday, September 9, Portland Campus gallery hours will be Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Current exhibition extended to October […]