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Technology & Tradition: Shaping Indigenous Collections For The Future, Gretchen Faulkner, Harold Jacobs, Alex Cole, Jonathan Roy, Reed Hayden, Anna Martin, Duane Shimmel

Technical Publications

The Hudson Museum received a UMAI seed grant to support
a collaboration with the Advanced Structures and Composites
Center and Intermedia Programs to replicate a culturally -
sensitive object in our collection. This is a technical publication to describe the process of replicating a Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet (HM5040) requested for repatriation by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA).

Where Do I Belong In The United States Public School System?, Christiana R. Becker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I seek to inquire about the world as it relates to my identity as a first generation descent of the Penobscot tribe living in the United States by utilizing four methodologies in my research: life histories/autobiographies, narrative inquiry, a/r/tography and practice-based and practice-led. Through coupling my artistic practice with those four methodologies I am able to creatively show the information I have unearthed in hopes that others will benefit from a fresh and augmented understanding of what it historically and culturally means to be a part of a community that makes up a very small percentage of the United States …

Covid-19_Umaine News_Umaine Intermedia Program Promotes Covid-19 Vaccination With Art, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine News press release regarding University of Maine Intermedia Program students creating and sharing art that advocated for COVID-19 vaccination and equitable distribution of doses.

College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences_Covid-19 Course Content, Kristin Vekasi, Frederic Rondeau, Marcella Sorg, Derek Michaud, Ayesha Miller, Kirsten Jacobson, Lillian Herakova, Mark Brewer

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

List of COVID-19 related course content in the University of Maine's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences during the 2020 Spring Semester. Includes descriptions from:

• Kristin Vekasi, Associate Professor, Political Science for POS 349: Politics of Media and Censorship;
• Frederic Rondeau, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Classics for Introduction to French Classics Novels of the XX-XXI century;
• Marcella Sorg (Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center for ANT 260: Forensic Anthropology;
• Derek Michaud, Lecturer, Philosophy; Coordinator of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies for PHI 105: Introduction to Religious Studies and PHI 100: Contemporary …

Photo Essay: Holding Up The Sky: Wabanaki People, Culture, History & Art, Tilly Laskey

Maine History

Holding up the Sky is on view at Maine Historical Society through February 1, 2019. The exhibition gallery is located at 489 Congress St. in Portland. Please visit MaineHistory.org for hours and ticket information.

Maria J.C. A’ Becket: Rediscovering An American Artist, Christopher Volpe

Maine History

Maria J.C. a’ Becket (or Beckett, as she originally spelled her name) got her start as an artist in Portland, Maine and moved on to new venues in Boston, New York, Bar Harbor, and St.Augustine. She studied in France with well-known Barbizon School landscape painters and returned to American to develop a distinctly personal and American version of the genre. Although her work and legacy are obscure today, Becket was a pioneer professional woman painter and arguably the first woman to build a career as a landscape painter by popularizing the Barbizon style in America. Christopher Volpe moved to New …

John Williams Daniels' Paintings Of North Anson, Holly Hurd-Forsyth

Maine History

Five small oil paintings of the village of North Anson were given to the Maine Historical Society in 1999. They meticulously illustrate a rural Maine village in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and as such are important additions to our painting collection, which is comprised predominately of marine subjects and portraits. The paintings are attributed to John Williams Daniels (1845-1933), who married North Anson native Alice Steward (1846-1921), in 1876.

Samuel Freeman's Waistcoat, Jacqueline Field

Maine History

The article discusses the features and construction of a waistcoat worn by Samuel Freeman at his 1786 wedding. The waistcoat is in the Collection of the Maine Historical Society.

Alger Veazie Currier: Apostle Of The Beaux-Arts In Maine, V. Scott Dimond

Maine History

Alger Veazie Currier began a promising career as an artist in Paris when two of his paintings were accepted to the prestigious Salon of 1888. After this moment of glory, Currier returned to his home in Hallowell, at a time when art in Maine was at its most provincial. He brought with him with fresh approach to teaching art and a mission to bring both painters and patrons up to date. During a brief tenure at Bowdoin College, Currier signaled a break from the old- fashioned landscape painting that dominated the Maine art scene. Although his European, Beaux-Arts ideas were …

Mabel Haskell's Wedding Gown, Jacqueline Field

Maine History

No abstract provided.

“Amid The Great Sea Meadows”: Re-Constructing The Salt-Marsh Landscape Through Art And Literature, Kimberly R. Sebold

Maine History

Salt marshes played an important role in northern New England agricultural from the colonial period to the twentieth century. While some coastal residents depended upon the natural grasses or salt hay to provide them with additional winter fodder, others transformed wetland into farmland through reclamation. The activities of salt marsh farmers created a whole new landscape which, ironically; late nineteenth-century artists and writers portrayed as the last vestiges of a “natural” landscape along the northern New England coast. Their paintings, photographs, poetry and stories established the salt marshes as an important part of coastal New England identity and aided the …

Franklin Simmons And His Civil War Monuments, Martha R. Severens

Maine History

Franklin Simmons was a Maine sculptor who achieved national prominence for his Civil War monuments. Simmons' work in Maine earned him the opportunity to create numerous monuments in Washington, D. C. In this article Martha R. Severens reviews the sculptor's life and work and provides insight into a unique style that inspired other sculptors across the Northeast. Ms. Severens, curator at the Greenville (SC) County Museum of Art, has published volumes on the Museum's Southern Collection and on Andrew Wyeth. Previously, she held similar positions at the Portland Museum of Art and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC.

Bath Iron Works, By Carroll Thayer Berry, William David Barry

Maine History

No abstract provided.

Winslow Homer’S Seascapes: Transcendental Subjects, Popular Resorts, Critical Reactions, Priscilla Paton

Maine History

Winslow Homer, acknowledged as a quintessential Yankee and one of America 's foremost nineteenth century artists, seems as formidable, stern, and ambiguous as the rocky shores that fascinated him. Homer's reception by critics highlights the impossibility of separating artistic achievement from the tastes and fashions of the society in which the artist worked. The “mystifyingly blank" faces that critics abhorred in Homer's early farm figures became the distinctively attractive features of his later seascapes.

Checklist Of Dresses And Selected Accessories In The Exhibition, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

This article is a checklist of dresses and accessories in the collection of the Maine Historical Society. Unless otherwise specified, costumes were probably made in the United States. Fabric origins await further research, except where noted. The original owner is identified, when known. Except where noted, all costumes are part of the Maine Historical Society collections.

"So Monstrous Smart" : Maine Women And Fashion, 1790-1840, Kerry A. O'Brien

Maine History

This article is overview of women's fashions, in Maine and elsewhere in the United States, in the nineteenth century.

Journal Cover, Toc, And Preface, Maine Historical Society, Elizabeth J. Miller

Maine History

Cover, Editor, Editorial Board and Table of Contents with authors' names. Preface by Elizabeth J. Miller about the exhibition.

Early Maine Silver, Martha Gandy Fales

Maine History

The article discusses the development of silver work in pre-1820 Maine. It reviews some of the relatively few examples of Maine’s pre-1820 hand-wrought silver which are of more than usual interest.

Crafts In Transition: A Case Study Of Two Portland Silversmiths In The Early Nineteen Century, Edwin A. Churchill

Maine History

The article discusses the growth of skilled artisans in Portland in the early nineteenth century. It also traces the changes in the metal-working industries and how the introduction of new industrialized manufacturing methods caused the decline of these artisans.

From The Collections, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

The article discusses an exhibit called A Century of Portland Painters at the Portland Museum of Art.