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Lesley Dill, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around MeAn Adventurous Spirit: The Jane Costello Wellehan CollectionMarsden Hartley: Adventurer in the ArtsCarl Benton Straub: His Enduring LegacyJoseph Delaney: Taking Notice
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: The Way Things GoRalph Steadman: A Retrospective (Cancelled due to COVID-19 public health crisis)Evolve: a changing exhibition of work from the collectionLet’s Celebrate Ashley Bryan!Senior Thesis Exhibition 2021
DeWitt Hardy: Master of WatercolorUncovered: Selections from the CollectionGerman Art PostersVanessa German: Miracles and Glory AboundRalph Eugene Meatyard: Stages for BeingSenior Thesis Exhibition 2020
Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human EraAmy Stacey Curtis: Time and PlacePeter Turnley: RefugeesDahlov Ipcar: Blue Moons & MenageriesMaine Moderns: Drawings by Marsden Hartley and Carl SprinchornSenior Thesis Exhibition 2019
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2018Celebrating Peoples History: Iraq Veterans Against the War – Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and JusticeKate Gilmore: In Your WayAt Home and Abroad: The Marsden Hartley Memorial CollectionRona Pondick and Robert Feintuch: Heads, Hands, Feet; Sleeping, Holding, Dreaming, DyingLiterary
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2017Recent Acquisitions: Martin Puryear, PrintsPHANTOM PUNCH: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in LewistonMythologyRobert Indiana: Now and ThenJay Bolotin: The Book of Only Enoch
David C. Driskell: The Doorway PortfolioSenior Thesis Exhibition 2016The View Out His Window (and in his mind’s eye): Photographs by Jeffery BectonThe Art of Occupy: The Occuprint PortfolioMaine CollectedPoints of ViewThe Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden HartleyDirectors’ Cut: Selections from the Maine Art Museum Trail at the Portland Museum of Art
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2015Greg Shattenberg: Prints and DrawingsBack and Forth: The Collaborative Works of Dawn Clements and Marc LeutholdPhotographs by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent CollectionConvergence: Jazz, Films, and the Visual ArtsEncountering Maine
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2014Polish Posters: Art and AllusionRemix: Selections from the International Collage CenterHow to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman in Vietnam and Southern ChinaRedefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese PrintmakersSelections from Berenice Abbott’s Portrait of Maine
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Recent AcquisitionsSenior Thesis Exhibition 2013Dozier Bell: Mind’s EyeFransje Killaars: Color at the CenterMax Klinger (German, 1857 – 1920), The Intermezzi PortfolioRobert S. Neuman’s “Ship to Paradise”Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2012Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008)James Ensor: Scènes de la vie du Christ and other works25: Selections from the Permanent CollectionTale SpinningManuel Alvarez Bravo – Fotografias de Mexico (1933-1976)Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning WyethEmerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth, and Andrea SulzerSelected Drawings & Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Senior Thesis 2011Bound to Art: Illustrated Books from Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections LibraryDialogue, a video seriesSelections From the Collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American ArtOgunquit Museum of American ArtMao JacketMetamorphosoes: A Collaboration with Ovid by Wally ReinhardtLalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du MarocRecent AcquisitionsMaine Landscapes: Then and NowJoseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective
Senior Thesis Exhibition 2010Barry Nemett: Drawing from ItalyJoel M. Babb: The Process RevealedCollection Project 4: Alumni CollectionsOur Positive Bodies: Mapping Our Treatment, Sharing Our ChoicesLandscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial CollectionBernard Langlais: Medium and Abstraction
Senior Exhibition 2009The Somali Diaspora: A Journey AwayRecent Acquisitions: Collection Project IIIPlien Air Painting Exhibition of the Workshop 2008Figure Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial CollectionStairway to HeavenFlourishing Folk
Senior Exhibition 2008The Kimono and Traditional Japanese Culture: Investigating Kimono through Ukiyo-eTaking Different Trails: The Artists’ Journey to Katahdin LakeWildness within Wildness withoutRestop: The ProposalGreen Horizons
Josef KoudelkaSenior Exhibition 2006ActivatorKeith TysonOff the Coast: Landscape ChronologyBates FacultyRobert Indiana: The Hartley ElegiesThe Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection
Senior Exhibition 2005Early French Photography: Art and IndustryNew Acquisitions: Local and Global Contemporary PhotographyBetween Science and Art: X-ray Photographs by Judith K. McMIllanThe Body Holographic: Harriet Casdin-SilverVideodrome IIMarsden Hartley: Image and IdentityWenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
Senior Exhibition 2004Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social ChangeFrom Byzantium to Russia: Popular Icons for Personal DevotionManuel López Oliva, Cuba and the Theater of Desire
