PAST | 2024
Constructed Intervention: 2024 UMA Architecture Student Show
Constructed Intervention
2024 UMA Architecture Student Show
October 31 - December 10, 2024
Opening Thursday, October 31 at Noon!
This highly anticipated annual exhibition features works created over the past year by students in UMA’s 5-year UMA’s Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) program.
UMA’s B.Arch. program offers the only professional architecture degree in Maine and the only public 5-year professional degree in northern New England.
The UMA Architecture program is SMALL… INTEGRATED… HANDS-ON. That mission fundamentally means we are about people: our students, our faculty, and our community partners. We teach architecture through engagement, educating, and empowering students to explore, investigate, and analyze the built environment. Engagement brings students into active contact with each other, their coursework, and our community partners. This exhibition offers a window into the UMA Architecture’s small, integrated, hands-on program.
The Great State of Illustration in Maine
the great state of illustration in maine
September 3 - October 18, 2024
Reception: September 12, 4 - 6 p.m.
Exhibition Events:
Getting Started as an Illustrator, presented by Scott Nash: October 1, 2024, 12 - 1 p.m.
Women in Illustration (Jess Esch, Moderator): October 8, 2024, 12 - 1 p.m.
Artist Presentation - Steve Costanza: October 17, 2024, 4 - 6 p.m.
The Illustration Institute, based on Peaks Island in Maine, bring their energetic, multifaceted exhibition The Great State of Illustration in Maine to its first educational venue, the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta. The exhibition, which includes the work of more than eighty published Maine illustrators, will be on view September 3 through October 18.
The Great State of Illustration in Maine includes works by time-honored Maine talents like Dahlov Ipcar and Ashley Bryan and many other incredible artists, and in media like watercolor, pen and ink, and woodcuts. The diversity of methods, subjects, and artists charge the exhibition with energy, humor, and emotion, transforming the space of the Danforth Gallery into a glittering showcase of some of Maine’s most talented and creative artists.
Trust the Process: 2024 UMA Thesis Exhibition
2024 Student Art Exhibition
EXHIBITION
ART
STUDENT
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2024
March 24 - April 28, 2024
Opening Reception APRIL 7 at 1 p.m.
Please join us Sunday, APRIL 7 at 1 p.m. to celebrate the artistic achievements of UMA students in their Art classes! A juried selection of student artworks made in UMA classes will be on view in the Danforth Gallery, and this year's Juror of Awards Diana Baumbach will present awards at the reception. Please come celebrate UMA's artistic excellence with us!
Anne Mourier: While we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other
Anne Mourier
While we still ask ourselves
how to speak to each other
January 23 - March 6, 2024
Opening Reception
January 23 at 12 p.m.
Participatory performances
January 24, 25, and 26 from 12 - 1 p.m.
Closing Zoom Dialogue between Anne Mourier and Dr. Aaron Rosen
March 6 from 12 - 1 p.m. via Zoom
Anne Mourier’s exhibition While we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other examines the Feminine as it is associated with practices, qualities, and visualities that Western societies tend to devalue and even suppress, and what the implications of that value system are more broadly. Mourier, whose work often centers domestic labor frequently associated with women and uses craft techniques long undervalued in Western art history, conceived of While we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other as a collaborative site of re-thinking and re-valuation of the Feminine in an associative field of artworks, performances, and texts.
The exhibition uses the corners of the Danforth Gallery to explore four themes: The Feminine; The Feminine and Darkness; The Feminine Devalued; and The Feminine and the environment. In each section of the exhibition, you’ll find library books borrowed from the UMA Libraries in dialogue with the themes addressed in each section. The artist and UMA’s library specialists selected these texts for the four corners of the exhibition in a collaborative process. You may check these books out from the Katz library if you wish to continue reading them.
While we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other includes three performances during the noon hour January 24, 25, and 26th, in which Mourier will embroider with visitors and discuss the themes in her exhibition. All are welcome to participate.
About the Artist
Anne Mourier is a French-born conceptual artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York and in Venice, Italy. An internationally-known artist, Mourier was a founder of the influential New York art space The Invisible Dog. She works in media from lace to blown glass to performance, examples of which can all be seen in the Danforth Gallery. She has exhibited in several international venues including the Caos gallery in Venice during the 2015 Biennale, The galerie Huit in Arles during Les Rencontres d’Arles, and the Henry Luce III center for the Arts and Religion in Washington, DC. Her works are included in the collection of the Watermill center, the MoMA library and the private collection of the French minister of culture, Rima Abdul-Malak.
Image: Anne Mourier, The Flow, alabaster, human hair and Murano glass, 2023