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Maine
Folklife Center |
Exhibits
We have a variety of
traveling exhibits available for rent. All exhibits cost $25.00 per
week plus shipping and handling. The shipping and handling costs
vary from exhibit to exhibit. For more information, or to rent an
exhibit, please call the Maine Folklife Center at (207) 581-1891.
Remnants Of
Our Lives:
Maine Women and Traditional Textile Arts
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This exhibit is based upon field work done to locate, identify
and document traditional textile arts practices of Maine women.
The ten large panels that make up the exhibit include
photographs, text, and some of the original needlework from
these women. This is a smaller rendition of the Remnants Of Our
Lives exhibit that premiered at the Maine Center for the Arts in
1992. The interviews and examples of the quilting, knitting,
sewing, and other needlework give insights into the perspective
and social dimension of traditional artistic expression and are
a tribute to the character, talents and mastery of contemporary
women. |
Women's Work:
A Century of Maine's Experience
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Only about 500 of the Center's 8,000 photographs pertain to
women, and many of these are formal family portraits. Within
the remaining, relatively small, number of photographs are
several surprising photographs of women in non-traditional
occupations, such as lobstering, welding, repairing cars and
sawing wood. This exhibit tells the story of the diversity of
women's work in the home, on the farm, for the family, in
their own businesses, and for wages. The traveling exhibit is
made up of a combination of oral histories, photographs and
artifacts from the lives of working women. When the full
Women's Work exhibit was displayed at the University of
Maine's Student Union, it received generous praise and
generated a great deal of discussion.
Online Exhibit |
Maine
Lumber Woods:
Woodsmen tell their stories
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This attractive exhibit consists of seven large, easy to display
panels with black and white photographs from lumbercamps and
lumberwoods work in Maine. Along with the twenty-seven images
are interesting and sometimes amusing stories from many of the
Maine Folklife Center's oral histories. The way the lumber
workers lived, worked, ate and slept are brought to life in
these rare photographs and their words bring us back to their
rugged lives as woodsmen. "You sleep two in a bed...and...they
didn't take good care of their blankets...those heavy
blankets...in the fall of the year lots of times they wouldn't
bother to laundry them...Next spring you'd have to crawl into
them dirty old blankets." |
Swedish
Traveling Trunk
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Students from the New Sweden Consolidated School told the
creator of this exhibit what they would like their peers to know
about the folklife and history of New Sweden. The students
selected folklife genres of architecture, education, foodways,
holidays and recreation for inclusion in the trunk. Materials in
the trunk can be used independently or in conjunction with other
classroom activities. The contents of the trunk includes an
educator's manual, artifacts, such as a straw goat, a Swedish
flag, a cookie press, male and female traditional costumes, a
video entitled New Sweden Little Folks, cassettes of Swedish
music, books on the Delecalian Horse and Swedish language and
grammar, a table top display and many more items. The artifacts
come with labels and educators are also provided with sample
questions and activities to make the Swedish traveling trunk a
fun and educational tool for teaching about traditional Swedish
folklife. |
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