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University of Maine at Augusta Read Article The Outbreak Project exhibition, the fine arts component of the wider collaborative Outbreak Project and Plunkett Poetry Festival, explores this year’s academic theme “Outbreak” through the visual arts and will be on display Tuesday, April 6, through Friday, April 30, at the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta. The exhibition, selected by a jury of art leaders drawn from community arts organizations and the Universit...

Virtual 2021 Student Art Exhibition now through April 3 Read Article Postcard design by Frederica Shorey for UMA Virtual Student Art Exhibition – An acrylic painting titled ‘Rainy Day Blues.” Submitted photo The UMA Virtual 2021 Student Art Exhibition is now live on the website of the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta. The exhibit features seventy artworks by forty UMA students and was juried by UMA art faculty, with awards chosen by Dr. Bethany Engstrom, ...

Read Article Submissions from makers and writers are sought for the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival, a hybrid event of visual and literary arts to be held on Friday, April 30. Literary and art submissions are due Monday, March 1. Anyone interested in contributing one or more creative works to the festival should visit uma.edu/plunkett for details. The past year has been challenging, with quarantining, masking, “pivoting,” rising up, breaking down and trying to keep it together. To ma...