University of Maine Farmington

Art Exhibit: "Spaces Places Traces"
2026-02-11 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-12 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-13 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-14 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-15 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-16 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-17 12:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-18 12:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) and 20 more dates | Emery Community Arts Center
“Spaces Places Traces” presents a thematic selection of artworks that engage artists’ interactions with specific locations and natural phenomena. Celebrating careful observation and reverie of one’s surroundings in concert with metaphorical or allegorical parallels, this show includes drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media. The artworks on view consider space and place as a point of departure to explore concepts of time, relationships between materiality and ecology, personal narratives, environmental calls to action, and our connections to the world and each other. Participating artists include: Patricia M. Brace, Jackie Brown, Joshua DeMello, Bethany Engstrom, Pia Paulina Guilmoth, Hilary Irons, Peter Precourt, Julie Poitras Santos, Susan L. Smith and John Umphlett. Emery Community Art Center Gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 12pm-7pm. Attached Image: Hilary Irons, “Culvert (Swans Island).” Oil, acrylic, and marble dust on wood panel, 24×18”, 2025

University of Maine at Farmington Women's Basketball at Maine Maritime Academy - NAC Championship
2026-02-28 | Castine, ME
University of Maine at Farmington Women’s Basketball at Maine Maritime Academy – NAC Championship
Streaming Video: https://team1sports.com/mma/

'The science of when science doesn’t matter—and what we can do about it' - John.Hagan
2026-03-06 12:30 - 14:00
Thomas Auditorium, 12:30-2 PM, Fri, March 6
John’s description of his talk:
“Scientists think of science as being the source of truth. But statistical significance is not the same as social significance. Society has to assign value to something before science can be put to use. Sometimes, the science we produce is simply irrelevant to what society values. In some cases, more science can make problems even worse. A growing body of social psychology literature in the last decade helps explain why we all react to science differently. In this talk, John Hagan describes why society reacts so differently to the same set of facts, and what we can do to overcome this problem.”
Dr. John Hagan is the founder, President, and CEO of Our Climate Common, a non-profit organization focused on building bridges across cultural and political divides to address climate change. An ecologist with a Ph.D., Hagan focuses on practical, science-based solutions.
