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For the third consecutive year, the Farnsworth will participate in the Camden Conference Community Events, which lead up to the February Conference, The United States in the Twenty-First Century: Do We Have What It Takes?. Farnsworth Director of Education Roger Dell will deliver an illustrated lecture organized in two parts, presenting the beginnings of American mass culture and its pervasive transatlantic influence.
On Thursday, December 8th at 6:30 pm, the public is invited to a presentation on a photography project by Michael Kolster of Brunswick entitled “ A River Lost and Found: The Androscoggin River in Time and Place”. The presentation will take place at the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in Hallowell. Kolster’s work explores how we perceive, depict, and come to understand the changing nature of river ways as they recover from a century of industrial pollution.
Donn Fendler, Author, Lynn Plourde and Illustrator, Ben Bishop will be at Spectrum Generations Muskie Center on Monday, November 21st starting at 6:30pm to promote their newly released graphic novel Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in The Wilderness. Lost Trail is the true story of Donn’s personal ordeal of nine-days alone on Katahdin.
Local author Katy Perry will give a talk about her Peace Corps experience in Belize at Lithgow Public Library on Wednesday, November 2 at 1 p.m. The program, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the library’s Reading Room. There will be an opportunity to purchase books at the presentation.
The talk is presented by Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center and Gardiner Public Library as part of a series of events funded by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Maine Humanities Council, a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the people of Maine with the power and pleasure of ideas.
(Waterville – September 20, 2011) Spectrum Generations Muskie Center is pleased to host best selling Maine author, storyteller and radio personality John McDonald on Saturday, October 15th at 7:00PM. John [...]
Nancy Marshall, founder and CEO of Nancy Marshall Communications, was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the United Way of Mid-Maine held at Colby College on Tuesday, June 7. Janice Kassman, special assistant to the president at Colby College and incoming president of the United Way of Mid-Maine, introduced Marshall, a Colby alumna herself.
The Farnsworth Art Museum is proud to present the fourth season of the annual lecture series Achieving American Art. The six-part series of art history lectures, titled Andrew Wyeth and Post-World War II Art, will highlight the work of Andrew Wyeth over a period of thirty years (1938-1968) when Wyeth was working at the Olson House in Cushing, Maine. The lecture series will be a lead-up to the Farnsworth’s summer exhibition Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World and the Olson House (June 11 through October 30). The lectures will be held every Wednesday in The Strand Theatre at 5:30 p.m., through June 8.
Maureen Heffernan, author of Native Plants for Your Maine Garden, will discuss a wide range of native plants — from groundcovers to perennials, ferns, grasses, vines, shrubs and trees — that are all hardy to Maine. Heffernan will also share some design tips for using native plants in the home garden.
Dr. Michael Coffman will be giving a presentation about Agenda 21, Gateway 1, & the Corridor Coalition relationships. Gateway 1 is an innovative, community-based land use and transportation planning projects for Maine’s Midcoast. Agenda 21 is is an action plan of the United Nations (UN) related to sustainable development and was an outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in 1992.
For the second year in a row, the Farnsworth is collaborating with the upcoming Camden Conference, “The Challenges of Asia,” by presenting a lecture on the theme of China, India, and Japan. Director of Education Roger Dell will deliver an illustrated talk on the extraordinary array of trade goods—which today we call artworks and preserve in the world’s great museums – as they were carried by donkey and camel across the deserts and mountains of central Asia and northern China.
During the “culture wars” in America of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the very words “beauty” and “the beautiful” were banned in certain academic and cultural circles. To some, those words were no longer relevant to the highly politicized period the country was experiencing, and they did not in any way describe the art that was being produced.
Stan Moody of Manchester, a former state representative and Maine State Prison chaplain, will be the guest lecturer Nov. 17 at the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College.
John Bear Mitchell, associate director of the Wabanaki Center at the University of Maine, will discuss teaching Wabanaki history and culture in Maine schools at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 4, 2010, in Searles Science Building, Room 315. The talk is open to the public and admission is free.
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