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Please note the Maine Center for the Arts is closed for renovation. Look
for these exhibits in a town near you.
Maine
Historical Society, Portland, Maine
February 15, 2008 to May 30, 2008
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 Gifts
from Gluskabe
The Native People
of Maine have legends that tell of how the Creator made a being, Gluskabe.
Gluskabe made the people and taught them how to use the natural resources
of their world, especially the trees and plants. He showed them how to
make baskets, birchbark containers and canoes, and to carve. It is these
traditions that were central to the Native Peoples of Maine and continue
as living traditions today.
Among the Hudson Museum's
holding are examples of the material culture of Maine's Maliseet, Micmac,
Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot peoples, including brown ash splint and sweet
grass basketry dating from 1860 to the present, along with an important
collection of basketmaking tools and molds, birchbark containers and implements,
rootclubs, crooked knives, snowshoes, and Penobscot beadwork, including
ceremonial regalia. Drawing upon these historic and contemporary collections
and historic images, the Hudson Museum will create a temporary exhibit
featuring the material culture traditions of the Native Peoples of Maine.
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Worldviews, University
of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine
September 16, 2008 to October 26, 2008 |
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Learn about Maya
ideology--religion, beliefs and cosmic concerns-through ceramics and
other artifacts from the Hudson Museum's collections, which were produced
by Maya scribes and artisans during the Classic period.
The ceramics show
views of a variety of worlds important to the Maya. On some vessels
are the gods, monsters and heroes of Xibalba, the Underworld. On others
are palace scenes with rulers and their attendants. Some show aspects
of the cosmos so integral to the cyclical Maya universe and others
depict plants and animals from the world of nature.
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Molas: From the
Jane Gruver Collection
For over 30 years,
Jane Gruver, "the Mola Lady," and her husband Dr. Daniel
Gruver lived and worked among the Kuna of the San Blas Islands of
Panama. Jane acquired a deep appreciation and understanding of Kuna
mola making and collected the molas to document this tradition. Beginning
in 1994, she began to donate molas to the Hudson Museum as a way of
recording this artform and the lifeways of the Kuna for the future.
Molas are reverse
appliqued fabric panels made to adorn women's blouses and were probably
derived from body painting of the pre-Conquest era. The design motifs
range from local flora, fauna, and sealife to everyday scenes, Kuna legend
and myth, magazine ads, political posters, and scenes taken from books.
Through these images, the Kuna capture their world in vibrant color.
University of Maine at Machias
Art
Gallery
Opening August 15, 2007
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A sampling of the Hudson Museum's Native American collections, from
the Southwest, Plains and Arctic. |
Hutchinson
Center, Belfast, Maine
Opening August 15, 2007
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 Selections
from the Hudson Museum's Collections. |
Husson
College, Bangor, Maine
Opening August 15, 2007
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 Featuring
Native American Collections from the Northeast, Plains and Southwest
in the W. Tom and Bonnie Sawyer Library, as well as a mini-exhibit on
traditional medicine, medical practices, and disease in the School of
Health. |
Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer COllection and Molas From the Jane Gruver Collection
USM Maine Art Gallery
September 9, to Noverember 9, 2008
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Jewelry From the Palmer Collection
October 4, 2008
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| Presented during the Boston Pops Eslanade Orchestra |
Reveres and Feared
Reach Center, Deer Isle Elementary
November 7, 2008
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| The Hudson Museum and the Insect World held in Conjunction with Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Life Cycle of the Butterfly. Two daytime school shows, one evening puplic show. |
Ethnographic Weapons with Sweeney Todd
February 25, 2008
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Drums and Percussion Intruments with DRUMline
March 3, 2008
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Asian Collections from the Hudson with National Acrobats of China
March 20, 2008
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Afican Collections with the Afican Childen's Choir
April 5, 2008
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Before Columbus with Luna Negra
May 5, 2008
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For more information
please call 581-1901
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