Danforth Gallery at UMA

Please join us to celebrate the opening reception for “Black Box Warnings” in the Charles Danforth Gallery immediately following Commencement on May 9 (tomorrow!) at noon.

The exhibition features works by undergraduate thesis students Natalie Rohman and Izzy Martinez, and their mentors: UMA alumni and artists Aylah Ireland and Tanya Russell.

The exhibition opening will begin around noon with refreshments and a gallery talk by exhibiting artists. All are welcome and invited to this joyous celebration!

Images (all details due to IG crop!):
1. Natalie Rohman, “Hard to Swallow,” photograph, 2026
2. Tanya Russell, Detail of “Reflections,” digital photograph, 2022
3. Aylah Ireland, “Dollhouse I,” digital photograph, 2024
4. Izzy Martinez, “The Upside Down,” digitally edited photograph, 2026

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TODAY! Please join us to celebrate the artistic excellence of UMA students at the 2026 UMA Student Art Exhibition opening today (Sunday, March 29) at 1:00! All are welcome.

Image: Nate D. "Light Painting 3" Art 109, Spring 2026, Digital

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Calling all UMA students! The 2026 UMA Student Art Exhibition submissions are now OPEN! Have you taken an art class at UMA this year? If so, you can submit your work to the exhibition! Woo hooo!!

To submit your work, here are some things to know:
✅You can submit up to nine works - three from three different classes you've taken in the Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 semesters (this academic year). You can also submit works that you created in your art classes after submissions ended for last year's show.
✅All artworks must be ready to hang (unless they're sculptures and aren't intended to hang - you get the picture! 😉)

Submissions:
✅Enter an online form for each artwork you're submitting via the link in our bio or the QR code on the slide.
✅Print those forms and attach them to the actual artworks you're submitting so we can match online forms with artworks in the gallery.
✅Drop off your artworks with their forms in the gallery (for 2D works) or in the sculpture studio (for 3D works) anytime between 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday this week (March 23-24).

Jurying will be Wednesday morning! Our jurors are the awesome artists Kate Russo (Kate Russo) and Tom Butler (Tom Butler)!

🎉LAST! Plan to come celebrate with your friends, family, and fellow UMA artists on Sunday, March 29 at 1:00 p.m. at the opening reception!

Join us Monday, March 2, 5:30-7PM at the Danforth Gallery or via Zoom to learn about graduate programs in the arts offered in Maine. This event is co-hosted by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Link in bio for more information and to register.

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Join us TODAY (Wednesday, February 25) at noon in the Danforth for Eric Stark's Artist Talk!

Image: Eric Stark, 2407-RG (Lunch), 2024

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The Danforth Gallery is closed today (Monday, February 23) due to the forthcoming blizzard, but please join us this WEDNESDAY, February 25 at noon for an artist talk by Professor Eric Stark. His beautiful exhibition continues through March 13!

Images
1: Wilson A. ("Snowflake") Bentley, A "Dendrite Star" Snowflakes Photomicrographed by Wilson A. Bentley, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 31, Box 12, Folder: 17, Bentley Neg. #591

2: Eric Stark, 2515-RG (bullseye), 2025, Sweetgrass, found stone, artificial sinew (coiling, drilling, stitching), photographed in the Danforth Gallery at UMA

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The Danforth Gallery is closed today (2/16) for the holiday. See you tomorrow!

All are welcome to join us in the Danforth Gallery tomorrow (Friday, February 13) at noon for a demonstration of how to make cordage from natural materials. Professor Eric Stark will lead us in a workshop transforming dried daylily leaves to cordage, and pizza will be served! Join us if you can!

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Please join us TODAY (Thursday, January 29) at 4 to celebrate "Eric Stark: A Sabbatical Year Through Weaving" in the Danforth Gallery!

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Please join us Thursday (January 29) at 4:00 p.m. for the "Eric Stark: A Sabbatical Year Through Weaving" exhibition reception! Professor Stark's extraordinary basket weaving from his sabbatical year simply must be seen in person. We hope to see you there!

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