Photo courtesy of Monique Johnston HONORED ARTIST Foxcroft Academy senior Conner Johnston was recently honored at the Portland Museum of Art as part of the 2024 Youth Art Month celebration in March. This exhibition showcases the incredible talent made by young artists in Maine and is put on annually in collaboration with the Maine Arts Education Association.
University of Maine at Augusta
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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 University of Maine System, draws from works submitted through an open submission process for the show.
The exhibition will circulate, conceptually and physically, around an installation and performance work by Maine artist and UMA lecturer Patricia Brace. Brace’s work, “Stage” will be a constructed plywood cubic space installed within the recessed center of the Danforth Gallery. With audiovisual equipment installed above, performance artists will choreograph and perform live-streamed dance-bas