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Whole Foods Employees Feel Unsafe and Uncared For
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Whole Foods employees in Portland are concerned for their safety. These workers, along with many Whole Foods workers throughout the country, do not believe they are being adequately protected or compensated by their employer. Whole Foods employees throughout the US have tested positive for COVID-19, but the stores have remained open.
Students petition for tuition reimbursement
By Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor A petition demanding USM student’s tuition be partially refunded for the Spring Semester has been circulating online this week. Since the petition was created on March 28 over 700 students and family members of students have signed in support. USM and UMaine administration officials have stated they do not intend to refund tuition. The petition is in response to USM’s mandates that were issued to prevent the spread of Covid-19 on campus.
Pass/Fail option now offered to students
Students have been sent off campus and all their classes have gone online. USM has decided that it will implement a pass/fail system in order to ease the stress of the students during the current pandemic. Illustration by Olivia Dyer, Staff By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor The university is now offering a pass/fail option for all undergraduate and graduate courses for the Spring semester.
A Notable Career Comes to a Close
Nora Devin / Staff Photographer Carolyn Eyler lounging in her office at the USM Art Gallery. By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Before serving as the Director of the USM Art Gallery, Carolyn Eyler was in the South bucking the confinements of conservative philosophy. As a curator for the William King Regional Art Center in Abington, Virginia, the last show she put together was titled “Bestial Angels”.
Students Cultivate An Artistic Community
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Students with a passion for the arts have the unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals at the Society of Student Artists (SoSA). Created in the Spring of 2019, SoSA aims to foster a community for creative students on campus by providing workshops and group trips to museums or galleries.
MMPA 10th anniversary exhibit
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a uniquely expansive and impressively formidable exhibition. Instead of procuring a selection of pieces from a few photographers or collectors, MMPA board members decided to contact one hundred different collectors in Maine, requesting one print from each.
Thriving collection catalogs history
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Through two sets of secure doorways, the second requiring a visitor to be buzzed in by a staff member is the Glickman Library Reading Room. This is where the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity and the coveted USM Special Collections of historical documents, artifacts, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and rare books are cataloged and preserved for academic research.
New grant awarded to WMPG
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor WMPG has started 2020 with a new film series in the works and the necessary funding to move forward. The Onion Foundation awarded their Discovery Grant to WMPG, donating $2500 to fund the Jazz at the Movies (JAM) film series. The first event will be held on April 16, with a screening of a documentary about the Jazz singer Anita O’Day, titled “The Life of a Jazz Singer,” at the Cove Street Gallery in Portland.
Alumni Creative’s Career Blossoms
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor After graduating last spring from USM, Belle Fall has strived to carve a place for herself as a professional photographer and videographer in Portland. Armed with a Panasonic GH4, and a growing contact list of local clients and creative colleagues, she has pushed herself to pursue her dream.
Work-study Employees Assist Art Gallery Exhibition
By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor Work-study employees Liz Trumbley and Donna Blackwell huddled together with a box of matches on the walkway leading to the USM Art Gallery in Gorham. They were lighting tiny candles and placing them into the glowing white paper bags that lined the path. As the evening darkened, the light from the candles began to radiate. The opening reception of Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective was held at the Art Gallery on October 10th.
MWPA revives Maine Chapbook Series
Berkeley Elias / Lead Photographer By: Max Lorber, Arts and Culture Editor The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance is breathing life back into the Maine Chapbook Series. The series is set to be published in the spring or early summer of 2020, marking the first Maine Chapbook in 20 years. It will contain a selection of poems written by a state resident with cover art designed by a Maine artist.
Remembering The Great Fire of 1866
Photo courtesy of New England Historical Society By: Max Lorber, Staff Writer No one is quite sure how the momentous fire started in Portland on July 4, 1866. The weather conditions in the summer of 1866 made Portland particularly susceptible to the spread of fire. It was particularly dry and hot, creating conditions that turned most of the structures into tinder bundles.
Step into 160 years of history at Mechanic's Hall
Photo by Berkeley Elias, Lead Photographer By Max Lorber, Staff Writer Imagine that you are walking across a hardwood floor, a creaking sound underneath your feet. To the right are books, the old among the new, stacked on row upon row of shelving. In this room, knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, for the past 160 years. There is an energy to the room, a feeling of antiquity that is as indescribable as it is unmistakable.
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