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Anna Martin  “To me there is an importance to acknowledging small moments or something that, it doesn’t have to be grand to be important and for me the relationships between people and objects and those stories that accumulate through having a use for things and exchange with things often are filled with small moments of […]

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New Art and Medicine Fellowship Announced

A new Maine Medical Arts & Humanities in Medicine Fellowship will be offered through a collaboration between the University of Maine Intermedia Programs and Northern Light Health beginning in the summer of 2020. Doctors who complete their residency requirements at Northern Light Family Medicine and Residency in Bangor will have the opportunity to obtain a […]

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Poster for Fall lecture series, 2019

IMRC Lecture Series Fall ’19

The Intermedia MFA Tuesdays at the IMRC Lecture Series continues to provide the University of Maine, Orono and Bangor community with a diverse schedule of compelling speakers, and performances by contemporary and interdisciplinary artists and performers from around the country and world   All events are free, open to the public and will take place […]

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Susan Smith awarded Juror’s Award

Assistant Director Susan Smith has been awarded a juror’s award for the work The Passage from Surface Design International Exhibition  2019. The exhibition journal comes out in September, and will have an international representation of artists- typically a few awards and then also others who are juried in but not receiving awards. The Surface Design […]

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MFA Student Steve Norton presents “Requiem” in Boston

  In Steve’s work in the Intermedia program, he has looked for ways to combine his passion for audio with his interest in the natural world. As part of the work for an installation class he began reading about extinction, and researching archival recordings of extinct animals. As a result of this research Steve started […]

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Feature on Susan Smith, Assistant Director Intermedia Programs

There is a nice interview with Susan Smith, Assistant Director of the Intermedia Programs as part of a University of Maine Research feature. In the interview she reinforces key elements of the MA and MFA Programs: What do you want people to know about UMaine’s Intermedia programs and the students pursuing their degrees? 1. We […]

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Summer Session Intermedia Classes

The University of Maine Summer University schedule is now on line and you can register for our available classes. The Intermedia Programs is offering several classes that are open to students in the program as well as all interested people. These class allow for extended periods of study and individualized work as well as access […]

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Exhibition includes work of Intermedia faculty and graduate

Intermedia Programs Assistant Director Susan Smith​ and MFA Graduate Eleanor Kipping​ are both featured in this recent Portland Press Herald article by Bob Keys about the upcoming exhibition at the Portland Media Center. The exhibition is titled “The Way Life Is: Maine Working Families and Communities” and explores and presents the realities of life in […]

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New MA in Intermedia Offered at UMaine

The University of Maine Intermedia Program is pleased to announce the establishment of a new MA in Intermedia. Approved in December of 2018, this new MA degree is a 2 year master’s level interdisciplinary and creative focused degree program within the Graduate School for students interested in pursuing advanced, interdisciplinary creative works and research studies […]

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