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PAST | 2026

Black Box Warnings

"Black Box Warnings" written in a typeface that looks like it's cut from magazine letters.
May 9 - August 23, 2026
Opening Reception: May 9 at noon

Black Box Warnings features the undergraduate thesis works of students

Izzy Martinez and Natalie Rohman, and their mentors, UMA alumni artists

 Aylah Ireland (‘17) and Tanya Russell (‘11). 

 

The exhibition’s title addresses a range of ominous traces. Black box warnings are the pharmaceutical industry name for symptom warnings printed on prescription medication; the “black box” of an airplane preserves a record of disaster; and the term can serve as a shorthand for an unknowable mechanism operating in darkness. The four artists included in the exhibition each deal with the unknown, suspenseful, mysterious, recoverable and irrecoverable memory, and the limits of seeing. 

2026 UMA Student Art Exhibition

Blue text on a chartreuse background reads: 2026 UMA Student Art Exhibition Marach 29 - April 26, 2026, Opening reception: March 29, 2026 at 1pm, Jurors: Tom Butler, Kate Russo

2026 UMA STUDENT ART EXHIBITION
March 29 - April 26, 2026 
Opening Reception: March 29 at 1:00 p.m.


This annual juried exhibition is open to all students taking art classes at UMA during the academic year (in this case, the 2025-26 academic year). This year's exhibition and its awards were juried by artists Kate Russo and Tom Butler.

Eric Stark: A Sabbatical Year Through Weaving

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Eric Stark, 2512-RG (coastal 6). Image: Luc Demers

ERIC STARK: A SABBATICAL YEAR THROUGH WEAVING

January 12 - March 13, 2026
Reception: January 29 at 4 p.m.
Cordage Demonstration: February 13 at 12 p.m.
Artist Talk: February 25 at 12 p.m.

Professor Eric Stark is an artist and architect who has taught at UMA for 20 years, building UMA’s Architecture program into a five-year accredited degree that graduates design professionals each year who shape the physical and conceptual landscape of Maine and beyond.

 

In the past decade, Professor Stark has become a highly skilled and sought-after basket weaver, bringing his profound understanding of design and structure together with practicing a craft that marries tradition, function, history, concept, aesthetic, and ecology.

 

Teaching and learning are at the core of Professor Stark’s life and work as a design professional. During his 2024-25 sabbatical, he demonstrated his love of teaching by becoming a student, studying his chosen artistic medium, basket weaving, under a remarkable community of fellow maker-teachers who this exhibition highlights.

 

Eric Stark: A Sabbatical Year Through Weaving is organized around creative processes of teaching and learning and Professor Stark’s original sculptural baskets. Three sections: Learning from Others; Learning from Making; and Learning from Materials offer insight into the ways Professor Stark’s practice of weaving evolved over his sabbatical through the revolutionary intellectual and creative practice of learning. 

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