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’Adventures in the Amazon‘ featured in Merritt Gallery umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum

Brian Robinson c. 197 9–1980 traveling in the Amazon ake a 3-D star-studded journey while learning about the mysteries to visit Shipibo villages. Emera Astronomy Center of the universe inside Maine’s largest planetarium. Field trips give Tstudents the opportunity to experience learning in new rilliant bird plumage, intricately traveled in Peru and documented environments. The planetarium can accommodate up to 50 people. decorated pottery and textiles, and Shipibo traditions and culture. Other Hands-on activities are offered in the multipurpose room. For more Bcurare-tipped darts and spears are items by the Wai-Wai or Waroa, Jivaro information, visit astro.umaine.edu or call 581.1341. among the items on display in the and Piaroa were gathered by individuals Hudson Museum’s “Adventures in the in the U.S. Foreign Service and New shows include: Amazon” exhibit. These items, collected employees of American corporations • “Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus and Andromeda” between 1940 and 1980, were gathered doing business in . • “Natural Selection” by people who were fascinated with the • “Asteroid: Mission Extreme” tropical rainforest and its peoples. The As part of your visit to the Hudson • “Dynamic Earth” Inside this issue collections document lifeways that have Museum, you and your class attend a • “From Earth to the Universe” been radically altered by deforestation, gallery program that explores this • “Dawn of the Space Age” disease, the introduction of new exhibit, as well as other rainforest • “Dream to Fly” technologies and the displacement of cultures of Central America. The indigenous people from their traditional program includes a hands-on Molas For a complete list, show schedules, descriptions and trailers, visit lands. activity. Molas, with reverse applique astro.umaine.edu. panels that adorn women’s blouses on the Featured in the exhibit are objects San Blas Islands of Panama, depict the collected by Harvard graduate student flora and fauna of the region. Homer Virgil Pinkley, an ethnobotanist The University of Maine does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, including transgender status and gender expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies: who lived among the Cofan in the For more information about booking an Director, Office of Equal Opportunity, 101 North Stevens Hall, 207.581.1226, [email protected]. 1960s. University of Maine faculty Amazon gallery program, call 581.1904. For more information or to request a disability accommodation, call the Hudson Museum, 207.581.1904; Page Farm and Home Museum, 207.581.4100; UMaine Museum of Art, 207.561.3360; member Brian Robinson (1953 –2016) or the Collins Center for the Arts, 207.581.1755. Funds for field trips, p.4 Hudson Museum Hudson Museum Gallery Programs Classroom Exhibits

udson Museum offers guided tours and gallery programs for elementary and esource-rich classroom exhibits kit includes a three-panel mini-exhibit and secondary school groups, as well as programs for university students and learners from the Hudson Museum a wide range of educational materials. Hof all ages. Additionally, it offers programs that support state-mandated Rstimulate the study of fine arts, There are a library of Arctic books educational initiatives. Fees for programs are $2 per student. language arts and social studies through appropriate for school use, videos and mini-exhibits, cultural artifacts and All groups visiting the museum must call in advance to confirm space hands-on materials, including an inukshuk Education news from the resource materials. For a rental fee, and schedule availability. To arrange a visit, call 581.1906. kit. A notebook of projects and resource Hudson Museum classroom exhibits are available for two- materials to meet Maine State Learning Bus Information: Buses should arrive on campus at least week loan periods. The fee includes Results goals is included for educators. Matters: he Hudson Museum had 10 minutes before the tour time. Notice is given to the person in charge of one-way shipping. Borrowers are Fee: $45 The Relevance of Archaeology Tanother great fall semester. Our transportation for the school that buses should enter campus at Rangeley Road off responsible for return UPS shipping in the Modern World Day of the Dead celebration Route 2 and park in the Belgrade Lot. Students will not be allowed to be discharged expenses. To book these exhibits, call Penobscot Images: attracted record numbers, leading except in Belgrade Lot. 581.1906. Early 20th-Century Photographs us to host our regular event and an eremy Sabloff, Phi Beta Kappa by Frank G. Speck Visiting Scholar, will lecture at additional smaller event the day Exhibits include: J Maine Indians Program Anthropologist Frank Speck studied before. The museum has also the Collins Center for the Arts on Learn about the material culture of Maine’s four tribes, Cedar and Sea Native North Americans and his continued to enhance its outreach Thursday, April 20 at 7 p.m. focusing on birchbark work, basketry and decorative Based on the museum’s former exhibit, photograph collections document the programs with its traveling Maine Sabloff, a noted Maya archaeologist, traditions. Listen to a traditional Penobscot tale; play “Cedar and Sea: Peoples of the Northwest lifeways of Penobscot people in the early Indian classroom programs, which will present “Archaeology Matters: Waltes, a Northeastern bowl and dice game; watch artists Coast,” this kit includes a three-panel 20th century. This exhibit consists of 13 can be customized for elementary The Relevance of Archaeology in gather and prepare materials and make art forms; and display highlighting the environment, black-and-white photographs. Fee: $25 and middle-school students. the Modern World.” make a bookmark or traditional container. traditions and people of the Native This spring will be my last semester Northwest, from Washington state to In Beauty and Harmony: Archaeology is not just about the Prehispanic Cultures of at the museum, but I am excited Alaska. Educational materials include The Navajo and Their Textiles past, but also is relevant to the Mesoamerica for what it has in store. In April, videos, books, games and activities that This exhibit showcases Navajo weaving and world today. It can fill key gaps in the museum is co-sponsoring a Learn about the civilizations that illustrate traditional life. A teacher’s material about other aspects of Navajo recent that have been lecture by Jeremy Sabloff on the flourished in Mesoamerica before 1492, through the museum’s manual is included. It has background culture and traditions. Books, videos and ignored by written records, help relevance of archaeology in the artifacts from the William P. Palmer III Collection. From Olmec information, an explanation of materials, reference materials, as well as Navajo preserve and conserve the world’s modern world. This semester I to Aztec, this collection is unrivaled in the region and provides lesson extension ideas and information on textiles and weaving tools, are included. historical heritage, strengthen hope to focus on developing a new students with the opportunity to experience rich cultural how it helps meet the Maine State Fee: $45 and economic web-based app that emphasizes traditions. Learning Results. Fee: $35 opportunities, help build ethnic the museum’s pre-Columbian The Maya pride, and serve modern People of the Dawn: communities in a variety of ways, Mesoamerican and Andean World Cultures The Classic Period of ancient Maya Past and Present such as providing expert testimony collections. Learn how cultures around the world are civilization saw the establishment of in land disputes. Archaeology also similar and different, how they solve basic Native peoples in Maine were, and extensive settlements and the development can offer new understandings of As we continue to enhance the issues and how their environments impact continue to be, significant elements in the of astronomy, art, architecture and writing. waste disposal, homelessness, border museums’s online resources, I their solutions. state’s multicultural population. The Artifacts include a dance mask, textiles, encourage educators and students display panels showcase drawings, as well musical instruments and ceramics. Videos, crossings and the use of forensics. Moreover, archaeology’s longtime to explore the Hudson’s YouTube Explore Archaeology as historic and contemporary photographs, reference materials and a backstrap loom channel, online collections, and that illustrate life from A.D. 1600 to the are included. Fee: $45 perspective can provide fresh Excavate the only indoor archaeological site in Maine in the interactive web and iPad apps. I present. The exhibit includes hands-on insights into issues such as comfort of the Hudson Museum. In the museum’s Arch Box, look forward to working with you materials, examples of Maine Indian Seeds of Change sustainability, resilience, and students learn about techniques that archaeologists use to this spring. basketry, birchbark work and other art adaptation to changing ecological understand the past. They’ll record and identify artifacts, This exhibit, based on the original forms, reference books, videos and tapes. and cultural conditions. While map their locations, understand their context and determine Smithsonian exhibit commemorating the Kirsten Kling is the educational Fee: $45 archaeology clearly cannot solve the what types of activities took place at the site. This is 500th anniversary of European contact outreach coordinator at the big problems facing people around designed for 8 to 10 students and requires at least an hour. with the New World, includes 50 posters University of Maine Hudson Three Arctic Visits detailing consequences of contact. A video the globe, this lecture shows how it Appropriate for students in grades 3 and above. can shed some light on these Museum. Based on the museum’s former exhibit, and resource materials are included. problems. “Arctic Visits: Three Journeys of Fee: $35 Discovery to Native Communities,” this Free and open to the public.

2 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUMS NEWS FOR SCHOOLS 3 Collins Center for the Arts Groups of eight or more receive a discount of 15% on tickets. For more information, visit collinscenterforthearts.com or call 581.1755.

New Field Trip Funds for UMaine Museums New Exhibit in the Minsky Culture Lab Minsky Field Trip Fund for the UMaine Field School in , Hudson Museum Caladh Nua The Doo Wop Project Pippin The National Tour Tuesday, May 9, 7 p.m. : The Archaeological Study he Minsky family is generously sponsoring a field trip Friday, March 17, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1, 8 p.m. of Ancient Cities Tfund, which will provide support for elementary and Caladh Nua is a tightly knit, vibrant The Doo Wop Project starts at the “Pippin” is Broadway’s high-flying, secondary school groups of 20 or more students, coming and staggeringly talented group of beginning, tracing the classic sound of death-defying hit musical. Full of his documentary photographic exhibit by Gregory Zaro, for guided tours and programs at the Hudson Museum. musicians and singers with their five guys singing tight harmonies on extraordinary acrobatics, wondrous Ta University of Maine associate professor of Grants are for $150 and are reimbursements for travel origins deeply rooted in Ireland. a street corner to the biggest hits on magical feats and soaring songs from and climate change, explores the archaeological study of expenses and/or tour fees. They play a variety of instruments, the radio today. Throughout the the composer of “Wicked,” “Pippin” ancient cities. Zaro’s exhibit tells the story of long-term capturing the essential qualities of performance, the Doo Wop Project will lift you up and leave you smiling. urbanization and landscape change in Nadin, Croatia over a Funds will support museum field trips for schools in traditional Irish music, balanced with shows their influences from the sounds This unforgettable new production is 3,000-year period. The archaeological site of Nadin-Gradina, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, Waldo, Hancock innovative styling. A wonderful St. of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations the winner of four 2013 Tony Awards, in the Zadar region along Croatia’s , affords the and Aroostook counties. Applications are available online Patrick’s Day event at the Collins and The Four Seasons. Featuring current including Best Musical Revival. opportunity to investigate the relationship between phases of (umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum). Center. and former stars of “Jersey Boys” and urban growth and decline with broader changes in landscape “Motown: The Musical.” and environment. Ploch Family Field Trip Fund for the Since 2015, Zaro and UMaine students, joined by others Page Farm and Home Museum from the University of Zadar, have excavated the he Ploch family, in memory of early museum archaeological site of Nadin-Gradina. Evidence of occupation volunteer Lou Ploch, is providing grant funding to at this site spans from at least the 5th century B.C.E. to the T support field trip experiences for elementary and 5th century C.E. before the area appears to have been secondary school groups in southern Penobscot, abandoned. These occupations include evidence of the Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, Washington and Hancock Roman occupation of the region. The site was reoccupied in counties, visiting the Page Farm and Home Museum. the Late Medieval Period (~15th century C.E.) and BODYTRAFFIC transformed under Venetian, and subsequently Ottoman, rule Sunday, March 19, 7 p.m. Schools are eligible to receive funding to offset field trip before ultimate abandonment Annie costs, including transportation and museum program BODYTRAFFIC has surged to the in the 17th century. The National Tour fees. Grant awards are for up to $100 and are for the forefront of the concert dance world. Wednesday, April 26, 7 p.m. current academic year. To obtain an application, or for Named “the company of the future” by Established in 2015 with support from the National more information, visit umaine.edu/pagefarm or call The Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Geographic Society, the Nadin-Gradina Archaeological 581.4100. Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2013 and “Annie,” world’s best-loved musical, returns in time-honored form. Directed by Project is an internationally collaborative program of field Best of Culture by the Los Angeles original lyricist and director Martin Charnin and choreographed by Liza Gennaro, research and education between the UMaine and University Times. this production of “Annie” will be a new incarnation of the iconic original. of Zadar.

4 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUMS NEWS FOR SCHOOLS 5 Page Farm and Home Museum Pathways to the Past UMaine Museum of Art Lord Hall Tuesday –Saturday, 10 a.m. –5 p.m. Gallery of Art Do and Discover — Students embark University of Maine Museum of Art Gallery hours: on an exciting journey of discovery 40 Harlow St., Bangor 9 a.m. –4 p.m. weekdays throughout the museum, drawing on clues to locate exhibitions and access information on key concepts involving 2017 Exhibitions the artifacts and folkways presented. • Featured Faculty/2017 Working together, students accomplish Feb. 15 –March 17 tasks and communicate their interpretations of the exhibitions. • UMaine Department of Art Challenge activities are now included. Student Exhibition April 7 –May 4 Simple Machines — Pulley, wheel, Reception: inclined plane, screw, wedge and lever. April 7, 5:30 –7 p.m. Tour simple machines in the home and on the farm before the advent of • Without Borders XIII electricity. Students use artifacts to May 19 –June 30 demonstrate how simple machines Reception: functioned to make life easier. TBA

School Days, School Days, Dear Old • Susan Groce: Golden Rule Days — Seasonally, Prints and Drawings students visit the former Holden South Antonio Small: District schoolhouse and learn what it Exhibitions Photographs was like to attend a one-room July 21 –Sept. 22 On display through May 6 May 19 –Sept. 2 schoolhouse in 1867. e day includes Reception: All museum programs have been developed to satisfy standards set by 2007 Maine morning and afternoon lessons, recess • Brenton Hamilton: 20 Year s • Jason Bard Yarmosky: Somewhere Sept. 15, 5:30 –7 p.m. Learning Results updated in 2011 to reflect the Common Core standards. and recitations. • Siobhan McBride: • Susan Barnett: I Wear What I Want Four Hour Fortune Cookie • Maine Stone Fiber Maine-ia Outreach kit — • Lee Cummings: What Lies Beneath Oct. 6 –Nov. 17 he Page Farm and Home Museum • Jared Cowan: The Life of David Field trip experiences cost $2 per person, Fiber Maine-ia is available to teachers for Reception: at the University of Maine is the with one free chaperone accompanying classroom use for up to two weeks. e Oct. 6, 5:30 –7 p.m. chedule a field trip to the University The programs are free thanks to the Tsteward of one of the state’s most every 10 students. Book two weeks in kit offers lessons and materials to support of Maine Museum of Art. Tours are generous support of the University of important collections representing 19th advance by calling 581.4100. investigation of fiber farming and textile hosted by a professional museum Maine Patrons of the Arts in honor of In addition to exhibitions held and 20th century rural life. From traditions in Maine. rough a series of S educator and may include gallery and Vincent A. Hartgen. in Lord Hall, the Lord Hall farming equipment and implements The Folk on the Farm — Tour the activities, K –8 students will learn about illustrating agricultural methods and studio activities. Give your students the Gallery oversees exhibitions of White Farm Barn, including the kitchen, Maine’s fiber animals and fiber farms. For more information about these technologies, to a stunning collection of opportunity to view original artwork in student work around campus. parlor, bedroom, general store and folk Participants will experience a variety of programs or to schedule a visit, contact: the galleries, learn museum etiquette and These exhibitions are situated decorative objects, art and furniture art exhibitions. This program illustrates processes for transforming raw fiber into see the behind-the-scenes workings of a Kat Johnson, Education Coordinator in such venues as the College adorning Maine homesteads, the Page the roles individual members played finished products, as they explore the museum. University of Maine Museum of Art of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Museum vividly illustrates Maine’s within the family and includes cultural influences that shaped tools and 40 Harlow Street Stevens Hall, in Fogler Library agrarian roots and family life. In addition examinations of division of labor by techniques for braiding, handspinning, Museum visits last approximately an hour Bangor, ME 04401 and the Honors College. For to its collections, the museum’s gender, family traditions, seasonal weaving, felting and other arts and a half. The museum can accommodate 561.3360 more information, call comprehensive and engaging educational practices, cultural values, food and applications essential to Maine’s vibrant 35 students per tour, and 16 students [email protected] 581.3245. and experiential learning programs offer clothing trends. Students gain a deeper fiber history and current economy. for classroom activities. Provide one scholars an accurate view of the state’s understanding of the differences in the e $50 rental fee includes one-way industry, agriculture, economy, chaperone for every 10 students. day-to-day family life of a pre- World shipping via UPS. Schools are responsible Free, open to the public and decorative arts and homelife from the War II family and family life today. for return shipping costs or delivery. handicapped accessible. period. Free admission to the University of Maine Museum of Art in 2016 –2017 is made possible by a generous gift from Deighan Wealth Advisors.

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