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Side view of the converted bread truck now known as the "Joy Truck" parked

Merrilee Schoen’s Joy Truck spreads joy beyond her UMaine Intermedia MFA thesis

Having been working on this project since before starting in the Intermedia MFA program in Fall of 2021, Merrilee Schoen has accomplished so much with her Joy Tuck. Check out more information on third-year, MFA thesis candidate Merrilee Schoen’s work in the news.

A photograph of the back of a sweater onto which patches from t-shirts have been sewn by hand. The patches each have one word printed in a variety of fonts and colors, and spell out the sentence "Make a weird shirt, I know you can."

Intermedia MFA Graduate Walter Greenleaf & Clothes Encounter Thrift Shop

Adele Drake

“I was determined to learn to paint, but I would always feel the pull of making performative and site specific work. I would also always feel the pull to be a teacher.” -Adele Drake Adele Drake Adele Drake was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia she is of Irish, Swiss-German, and Italian descent. […]

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“My aim is to restore our connection with nature, using cross disciplinary methods to achieve a minimum footprint and widen the audience acceptance.” – Adriana Cavalcanti Adriana Cavalcanti Adriana Cavalcanti was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her childhood was a constant back and forth from the city to the farm. The […]

Featured Student- Rebecca Morgan

“I hope the audience will be able to walk away with questions about the piece, because if they walk away with questions, I have stimulated some part of their brain that has got them thinking about the bigger picture.” -Rebecca Morgan Rebecca Morgan Rebecca Morgan is a Maine native, born and raised in a […]

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Jeonguk Choi “There is so much diversity to celebrate, that it is not getting celebrated enough and respected enough. So I’m hoping to advocate for marginalized identities.” -Jeonguk Choi Jeonguk Choi is a Korean Artist studying in the Intermedia Fine Arts program, at the University of Maine. Choi was born and raised in an […]

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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 […]

Imave of collaborative designs from MFA project

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 […]

Professor Owen F. Smith selected to present on intermedia at 2019 SLSA Conference

Director Owen Smith’s paper Intermedia as the Playground for Experimentalism: some point on a map of the history of the in-between. was selected to be included in the November 2019 Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) Conference. The conference will be held at the University of California, Irvine and will focus on practices […]

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 […]