4/14/25: Pixel Hunter Video and Animation Festival
7:00pm, Emery Performance Space
Free and open to the public
Join us for the ALL UMF video and animation fest! This one-night screening features student work created during the current school year. Please come honor our campus filmmakers!
4/15/25: Arts Night
5:00-6:30pm, Emery Performance Space and Lower Level Lobby
Free and open to the public
Schedule:
5:00pm
-Beyond Corsets: The History of Underwear as a Foundation for Costume Design (Lobby)
Sydney Booth, Tori Oliveira, Manu Ritchie, and Sonny Shouse present design renderings for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, and George Brant’s Elephant’s Graveyard to discuss their research and conceptual designs in the context of costuming a play.5:35pm
-Welcome and Awards (Emery Performance Space)
-Excellence in Music award, sponsored by Western Maine Blues and awarded by UMF music faculty
Music Performances (Emery Performance Space)
-Voice / piano piece (Pyam Morin, voice)
-Oboe / piano piece (Shaina Fusco, oboe)
-Neo (Vocaloid piece) JIN (Lily Cui, voice) 3”
-Vivaldi “Domine Deus” from Gloria for (Py, Shaina, Steve) 5”
4/16/25: Symposium Day
“Creative Pursuits in the Arts & Sciences”-Emery Community Arts Center
9:00-9:20am Wednesday 16 April
Shingles for Teeth: A Literary Exploration of the Monstrous Haunted House
Abbie Bitomske (Wilson Scholar)
9:20-9:40am
Humanity and Wolves: An Analysis of Werewolf Media and the Human Identity
Ev Dearborn (Wilson Scholar)
9:40-10:00am
The Feminist Advocacy
Saraphin Bechard (Wilson Scholar)
10:00-10:20am
Snowglory: a Comic Adaptation
Tori Oliveira (Wilson Scholar)
10:20-10:40am
Free Art: of the Unconventional Eccentric
Nicholas DeMarchi (Wilson Scholar)
1:00-2:40pm
B.A. in Art & Design Senior Exhibition Artist Talks
Saraphin Bechard, Sophie Bedrinana, Nicholas DeMarchi, TJ Dorn, Hunter Kemp, Sol LaBelle, Nic Laro, Becca Nirza, Madeline Pumphrey, and Crow Then
Senior Art & Design majors Saraphin Bechard, Sophie Bedrinana, TJ Dorn, Hunter Kemp, Sol LaBelle, Nic Laro, Becca Nirza, Madeline Pumphrey, Crow Then, and Performing Arts/Arts Administration major, Nicholas DeMarchi, will discuss their capstone art exhibition, “Circadian Limit.” The show includes photography, mixed-media collage, sculpture, animation, video, installation art and web design; and engages themes of ecology and natural phenomena, social activism, interpersonal relationships, resilience and experimental documentary storytelling. Each student will give an artist talk that presents the ideas and processes that inspired their artwork.
2:40-4:00pm
Readings from ENG 310 (Advanced Fiction)
Paz Clark, Kathryn Grover, Connor Haskell, Austin Marden, Emma Marsh, Holly Ness, Tori Oliveira, Madeline Pumphrey, Zain Richard, Manu Ritchie, Visio Roughton, Miranda Shelley, Danny Taylor, Marcus Wile, Tyler Wright, and Cole Writeout
Students in the current semester of ENG 310-Advanced Fiction Writing will each read a three-minute excerpt from a work-in-progress. Throughout April, the students will facilitate their own “Portrait of the Artist” workshop in which they describe sources of inspiration (visual art, music, film, etc). For this Symposium event, each student will choose a projected image to accompany their reading.
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