This year's market is going virtual! Artist demonstrations — basketry, birchbark traditions & beadworking, singing & drumming, and storytelling featuring MIBA artists will be streamed on our YouTube channel on December 12th. While you wait, check out the virtual Directory of Wabanaki Artists with contact information, artist bios, and images of their artwork and what […]
Join us in celebrating the Year of the Ox! UMaine International students will tell you about how Chinese New Year and Tet are celebrated in their homelands through a YouTube presentation. A downloadable instructional packet will have templates, directions and information on how you can create your own New Year’s decorations to celebrate the Lunar […]
World Anthropology Day is celebrated every year on the third Thursday in February. This holiday celebrates the field of Anthropology: the study of humans, human behavior, and societies in the past and present. To celebrate World Anthropology Day, check out the Hudson Museum's Adventures in Anthropology online activity. Explore how different cultures around the world approach […]
Save the Date! This panel discussion will feature archaeologists and cultural and physical anthropologists who represent efforts to promote equity, diversity and inclusion within a field that is struggling with its past around just these issues. Panelists include Mexican-American biological anthropologist Susan Antón, editor and author Chip Colwell, Black feminist, archaeologist, storyteller, and artist Ayana […]
This web-based program will take students on a tour of Hudson Museum collections and Anthropology Department Labs. Learn about UMaine research related to shell middens and efforts to document and preserve them, explore archaeological collections from Maine to Mesoamerica, and meet UMaine faculty, staff and graduate students who will talk about their research and how […]
Please join us for A Demonstration of Persian Calligraphy by Shahab Andarva, Persian Calligrapher in conjunction with his exhibit, “My Hands are Full of Circles” on October 14, 2021 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Minsky Gallery, Hudson Museum, University of Maine. Shahab Andarva, will demonstrate his age old artform at this special […]
William R. Belcher Associate Professor Forensic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In August 2005, a military forensic archaeology team traveled to the Joker Mountain area of the Pasayten Wilderness in northern Washington State to excavate a P-38 Lightning aircraft lost in November 1942. The team recovered a series of personal effects […]
Join us for a pre-recorded presentation by Eunice Loredo on Día de Muertos. We will offer a limited number of kits to create traditional decorations. These kits will include arts and crafts materials and instructions for their use in the classroom. This event is geared toward middle and high school students. To get information on this […]
A Holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists in New England, featuring Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance weavers who have received national awards and new artists representing the next generation of weavers. Join us for a day featuring: • One-of-a kind artforms. • A reading at 11am by Gal Frey of The First Blade of Sweetgrass, written by […]
This web-based program will take students on a tour of Hudson Museum collections and Anthropology Department Labs. Learn about UMaine research related to shell middens and efforts to document and preserve them, explore archaeological collections from Maine to Mesoamerica, and meet UMaine faculty, staff and graduate students who will talk about their research and how […]
