Donna Cassidy taught in both the Art Department and the American & New England Studies Program. Over her career at USM, she taught a range of courses on 19th and 20th century European art, gender and modern art, and the visual culture of the United States. She has published widely on modernism and regionalism in early 20th century …
Justin Levesque is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Maine. His work considers the materiality and tradition of photography in relationship to information exchange and mediated geographies. Levesque has exhibited nationally and internationally (the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; the Midwest Center for Photography; Terrault Contemporary; JanKossen Contemporary; Shape Arts, London; and The …
Jaime DeSimone is the Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Curator of Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. DeSimone holds an MA degree in American Contemporary Art from American University (2005) and a BA in Art History from Bates College (2001). In 2019, DeSimone was awarded a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy …
Libby Bischof is Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine, as well as a Professor of History, where she specializes in the land we now call Maine and visual culture, especially photography. She has written a variety of articles and books related to …
Nivi Christensen, Museum Director of the Nuuk Art Museum (Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik), will share the challenges that come with making a formerly private collection more diverse through strategic purchases. She will further discuss the museum’s acquisition and exhibition of contemporary Greenlandic artworks, like artist Pia Arke’s Arctic Hysteria, in contrast to the collection’s landscape paintings …
Dr. Darren Ranco, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, will discuss decolonizing partnerships and activities between UMaine and the Penobscot Nation. He will highlight the successes and challenges of digital repatriation of tribal cultural heritage items in the Fogler Library and the Hudson Museum, the signing of …
Aleksija Neimanis, Head of section for Research and Development, Department of Pathology and Wildlife Diseases, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden is a veterinary pathologist who works with wildlife health surveillance. She studies wildlife health issues and frames them within a One Health context, in which human, animal and ecosystem health are all connected. She worked with …
