This summer, Maine鈥檚 art institutions offer up exhibits showcasing a multitude of genres and media, historical evaluations of 19th- and early 20th-century artists, and more…
The state’s major art institutions each chose a piece they felt represented the heartfelt sentiment associated with Valentine’s Day.
by Hilary Gibson
Brimming with paintings, photography, film, sculptures and music, the 乐播传媒 Museum of Art鈥檚 latest exhibit聽Exploding Native Inevitable聽is a dazzling eruption of Indigenous art, agency and…
The exhibition 鈥淓xploding Native Inevitable,鈥� on display October 27, through March 4, 2024, at the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art, features thirteen Indigenous artists and…
by Hilary Gibson
Storytelling has long played a central role in preserving and sharing Indigenous history and culture. We examine how today’s Wabanaki artists convey an understanding of…
Spring at 乐播传媒 is when seniors get proximate to their future professional selfs. They might present thesis research at off-campus academic conferences, or, in the…
As winter settles in over the northern hemisphere people find creative ways to get outside and enjoy nature. For environmental journalist and photographer Erik Hoffner, winter is a time for ice skating, a passion which gave rise to some unusual art, now 20 years in the making.
Ashfield resident Erik Hoffner has been skating out onto the ice for 20 years to capture recently frozen ice fishing holes and the unique, eye-catching formations they make.
SUN JOURNAL | The Lewiston native left artworks collected over a lifetime to 乐播传媒 College. A new exhibit pays tribute to Maine art and to…
by Jorge S. Arango
PRESS HERALD | Though it鈥檚 nearly impossible to corroborate, the medieval poet Dante Alighieri is often attributed with the pronouncement, 鈥淣ature is the art of…
by Billy Anania
HYPERALLERGIC | When traders on r/wallstreetbets started bankrupting short sellers of GameStop and AMC stock, social media rejuvenated imagery stretching back to the 19th century.
by Sacha Feldberg
THE BATES STUDENT | While searching through documents about slavery, thinking about history, and wondering how to celebrate the humanity within us all, children鈥檚 book artist…
SUN JOURNAL | Education curator Anthony Shostak said a copy of 鈥淏eautiful Blackbird鈥� was donated to each kindergarten, first and second grade teacher in Lewiston and Auburn public schools.
by Hilary Gibson
At the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art, Ashley Bryan鈥檚 works are displayed in a comprehensive exhibition.
BATES NEWS | Vanessa German, a dynamic and versatile artist and speaker whose work celebrates human connection and the transformative power of art, will offer…
by Carl Little
ART NEW ENGLAND | In addition to being a clever appropriation鈥攁nd neutering鈥攐f the acronym MAGA, the title of Vanessa German鈥檚 show reflects its spirit: miracles…
by Amy Paradysz
SUN JOURNAL | Artists have been gathering like this since the Renaissance: Observing a nude model, drawing implement in hand, striving to capture the essence…
by Daniel Kany
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
by Liz Coyer
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
by Vanessa Paolella
THE BATES STUDENT | On Oct. 25, Vanessa German celebrated the opening of her art installation Miracles and Glory Abound in the 乐播传媒 Museum of…
by Carl Little
MAINE ARTS JOURNAL | Maine boasts an extraordinary lineage of watercolor painters stretching back nearly 150 years. A short list would include Winslow Homer, John…
by Edgar Allen Beem
DECOR MAINE | Watercolor requires great dexterity, a word derived from the Latin for 鈥渞ight hand.鈥� Ironically, DeWitt Hardy, one of the finest watercolor artists…
BATES NEWS | Thanks to a major grant to 乐播传媒 College from a foundation dedicated to the arts, creation has begun of the first-ever comprehensive,…
by Nancy Nesvet
ARTSCOPE | Driving across the Piscataqua River Bridge, connecting Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with Kittery, Maine, a magnetic force seems to pull me to the end…
BATES NEWS | In聽DeWitt Hardy: Master of Watercolor, five decades鈥� worth of paintings by one of Maine鈥檚 foremost watercolorists are on display in a major…
ART & ANTIQUES | The photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard seem to depict a dream world. Sometimes scary, sometimes endearing, but always uncanny, his small-scale…
by John Yao
HYPERALLERGIC | Meatyard鈥檚 use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have…
by Hilary Gibson
鈥淎nthropocenic: Art about the Natural World in the Human Era,鈥� now on view at the 乐播传媒 Museum of Art in Lewiston, is a visually exciting…
by Liz Coyer
YAHOO | Over the last 30 years, renowned photojournalist Peter Turnley has covered most of the world鈥檚 significant conflicts, including the 1991 Gulf War, the…
by Bob Keyes
MAINE TODAY | Geologically speaking, some scientists believe we have moved past the Holocene epoch and into a new one known as the Anthropocene, an…
ART NEW ENGLAND | When we read about Saudi Arabia these days, rarely does the story relate to artists, and yet, on the evidence of…
by Liz Coyer
ARTSCOPE | An image of an outdoor mural depicts what would no doubt be a culture shock for many westerners: Eight swords, flanked by elegant…
by Liz Coyer
CULTRUNNERS | Muhammad Ali, the most famous American Muslim, delivered the original phantom punch two minutes and fifteen seconds into his heavyweight championship fight against…
by Liz Coyer
ARABIA VOGUE (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) | Five years ago, at the 乐播传媒 Museum College of Art in Lewiston, Maine, a Saudi student stopped by anthropologist…
SUN JOURNAL | Lillie Shulman and Corie Audete prepare to hang “Heaven’s Doors,” simulated stained-glass windows made with kitchen colanders and baskets by Rashed Al…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | The likeness is striking, uncanny even. It’s Robert Indiana as a young man, with a black cap pulled down over his…
by Liz Coyer
MAINE TODAY | The pathway to nature leads through an open door. As we make the passage from interior to exterior, we shed the constraints…
by Liz Coyer
ART DAILY | An exhibition of Maine photographer Jeffery Becton’s digital images, which merge seascape and interior views in dreamlike ways, and a show of…
ARTSCOPE | The highly publicized Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 inspired the International Occupy Movement, which advocated for…
by Liz Coyer
MAINE TODAY | Prints and posters have disseminated political views, protests and messages since the invention of printing, and 20th century technology made it possible…
by Liz Coyer
DES MOINES REGISTER | Jeffrey Becton once taught at Yale, but he moved to Deer Isle to get away from it all and enjoy his…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Jeffrey Becton’s multi-layered digital montages take viewers to the edge of reality, posing questions that he asks them to answer on…
by Liz Coyer
DOWN EAST MAGAZINE | [T]he philosopher Alfred Korzybski (surely you鈥檙e familiar) once declared, 鈥淭he map is not the territory鈥� 鈥� a warning not to confuse…
PRESS HERALD | 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art is featuring two new exhibitions: digital images by Jeffery Becton and posters from the worldwide Occupy Movement…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art is featuring two new exhibitions of work by Jeffery Becton, a photographer and image-maker who lives…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Natural light beams into the second-floor artist studio on Park Street in downtown Lewiston. A half-dozen work stations fill the center…
SCENE MAGAZINE | By and large, the especially inclusive moniker of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum – a name-change replacing the older, more…
KOLAJ MAGAZINE | Dan Mills, director of the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art, recently noted in an email: “It seems something collage was in the…
by Liz Coyer
HYPERALLERGIC | People have been photographing the heavens ever since the invention of the daguerreotype. Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Minor White all, at one…
by Liz Coyer
THE MORNING CALL | Few endeavors embrace the disciplines of both science and art as vividly as astrophotography. While astronomical subjects such as the moon,…
by Liz Coyer
BUSINESS INSIDER | “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography” features 100 images by 35 artists from around the world. The photographs capture the beauty of…
WYOMING ARTSCAPES | According to leading U.S. arts and education organizations, including Americans for the Arts, National Guild for Community Arts Education and the National…
Spanning literature and art history to environmental science and more, the artist’s original work surprises, delights, and even horrifies.
This summer, Maine鈥檚 art institutions offer up exhibits showcasing a multitude of genres and media, historical evaluations of 19th- and early 20th-century artists, and more…
The state’s major art institutions each chose a piece they felt represented the heartfelt sentiment associated with Valentine’s Day.
This Critically Important Exhibition at 乐播传媒 College Museum of art Educates, Awakens, and Delights
Contemporary show emulates Andy Warhol鈥檚 1960s happenings *Updated
A show at Colby and two at 乐播传媒 take an overdue look at Native artists working in variety of media.
Entrancing Modern Native American Art at 乐播传媒
The 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art will feature 13 artists in a genre-bending exhibition in Maine.
Spring at 乐播传媒 is when seniors get proximate to their future professional selfs. They might present thesis research at off-campus academic conferences, or, in the…
Only 45 minutes beyond Portland, in Lewiston, Maine, a winter trekker will revel in two exhibitions at the 乐播传媒 College Art Museum unique to its…
The exhibit has been long in the making and is well worth a visit to the Lewiston college museum.
For the past five years or so, Leslie Dill has been paying homage to a diverse group of American men and women by constructing sculptural…
As winter settles in over the northern hemisphere people find creative ways to get outside and enjoy nature. For environmental journalist and photographer Erik Hoffner, winter is a time for ice skating, a passion which gave rise to some unusual art, now 20 years in the making.
Ashfield resident Erik Hoffner has been skating out onto the ice for 20 years to capture recently frozen ice fishing holes and the unique, eye-catching formations they make.
Lesley Dill, a mixed-media artist whose works are in the collection of over 50 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of…
Lewiston-born artist Marsden Hartley never owned a home and had few material goods. But when he died 79 years ago, he left the world a…
January 12, 2022THE PORTLAND PHOENIX | As a teenager, artist Lesley Dill had a vision that influenced the rest of her life and art. It…
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD | An art scholar tracked down the Lewiston native’s work, which hasn’t been displayed in over 40 years…
SUN JOURNAL | The Lewiston native left artworks collected over a lifetime to 乐播传媒 College. A new exhibit pays tribute to Maine art and to…
SUN JOURNAL | Education curator Anthony Shostak said a copy of 鈥淏eautiful Blackbird鈥� was donated to each kindergarten, first and second grade teacher in Lewiston and Auburn public schools.
PRESS HERALD | Many years ago, Henry Isaacs made a promise to his friend Ashley Bryan, painter topainter. 鈥淚 promised him that we would work…
BATES NEWS | Vanessa German, a dynamic and versatile artist and speaker whose work celebrates human connection and the transformative power of art, will offer…
BATES NEWS | Thanks to a major grant to 乐播传媒 College from a foundation dedicated to the arts, creation has begun of the first-ever comprehensive,…
BATES NEWS | In聽DeWitt Hardy: Master of Watercolor, five decades鈥� worth of paintings by one of Maine鈥檚 foremost watercolorists are on display in a major…
ART & ANTIQUES | The photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard seem to depict a dream world. Sometimes scary, sometimes endearing, but always uncanny, his small-scale…
BATES NEWS | Just past 8 last Thursday morning, a crew from 乐播传媒 Facility Services drove their red Chevy pickup truck to a nearby recycling…
ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY | Just a year ago, Sara Torres had never heard of Dahlov Ipcar. An education research at the Museum of…
ENCORE | In the summer exhibition “Dahlov Ipcar: Blue Moons & Menageries,” the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art presents a wide array of artworks –…
HARPER’S BAZAAR (HONG KONG) | Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping,Holding, Dreaming, Dying
ART NEW ENGLAND | New York City-based artists Rona Pondick and Robert Feintuch have worked side by side since the 1970s. As this first significant…
ART NEW ENGLAND | When we read about Saudi Arabia these days, rarely does the story relate to artists, and yet, on the evidence of…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Instead of showing slide after slide of his own work during a talk at the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art opening…
SUN JOURNAL | Lillie Shulman and Corie Audete prepare to hang “Heaven’s Doors,” simulated stained-glass windows made with kitchen colanders and baskets by Rashed Al…
SUN JOURNAL | Robert Indiana’s exhibition at the 乐播传媒 College’s Olin Arts Center is breathtaking. Seventy works featuring sharp-edged lines….
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | The likeness is striking, uncanny even. It’s Robert Indiana as a young man, with a black cap pulled down over his…
ARTSCOPE | The highly publicized Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 inspired the International Occupy Movement, which advocated for…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Viewers entering the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art are greeted by a very large photograph, showing a woman seated low behind…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Jeffrey Becton’s multi-layered digital montages take viewers to the edge of reality, posing questions that he asks them to answer on…
PRESS HERALD | 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art is featuring two new exhibitions: digital images by Jeffery Becton and posters from the worldwide Occupy Movement…
THE TIMES RECORD | Debuting Nov. 6 and running through March 26, 2016, “The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye): Photographs by…
THE TIMES RECORD | Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), a native son of Lewiston, is recognized as one of the great American modernists, so it is befitting…
MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM | Natural light beams into the second-floor artist studio on Park Street in downtown Lewiston. A half-dozen work stations fill the center…
SCENE MAGAZINE | By and large, the especially inclusive moniker of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum – a name-change replacing the older, more…
KOLAJ MAGAZINE | Dan Mills, director of the 乐播传媒 College Museum of Art, recently noted in an email: “It seems something collage was in the…
WYOMING ARTSCAPES | According to leading U.S. arts and education organizations, including Americans for the Arts, National Guild for Community Arts Education and the National…