Identifier	Type	Subject	Title	Web Resource
2118	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	A Rare View: Everyday Life on Mount Desert Island, 1860 - 1940		A Rare View: Everyday Life on Mount Desert Island, 1860 - 1940 Identifier: 2118    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2000-07 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: A Rare View: Everyday Life on Mount Desert Island, 1860 - 1940 The Raymond Strout Collection Early maps, posters, broadsides, ledgers, letters, wooden signs, handblown glass, bottles, oyster crocks and Soderholtz pots tell a special story of the everyday life of villagers of Mount Desert Island of the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Local historian Raymond Strout, who as a Bar Harbor schoolboy became fascinated with collecting "ordinary" objects from the past, reveals how eloquent simple objects and papers become over time. On exhibit from July 8 - August 6 Opening reception July 10 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. [show more]
2124	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Warflowers: From Swords to Plowshares		Warflowers: From Swords to Plowshares Identifier: 2124    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2005-10 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: Opening Reception - Blum Gallery Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Featuring a panel discussion led by Prof. Gray Cox, Greg Field of Peace Action Maine, Pat Wheeler, Natasha Myers, and Robert Shetterly in the McCormick Lecture Hall, 4:30 - 5:15 p.m. On exhibit from October 3 - 29, 2005 Image: Bread not Bombs: Conversion of the Heart, by Patricia Wheeler Some of the 40 featured artists include Pat Wheeler, Carolyn Caldwell, Robert Shetterly, Abby Shahn, Kenny Cole, Becky McCall, Katherine Bradford, Katherine Porter, Cathy Melio, Lesia Sochor and many others. [show more]
2125	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Sewing Trees		Sewing Trees Identifier: 2125    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2006-01 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: An installation by Barbara Andrus of Swans Island, Maine and New York, New York Opening reception Friday, January 13, 2006 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Ethel H. Blum Gallery Open exhibit from January 11 - February 19, 2006
2126	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Religion and Politics - Church and State		Religion and Politics - Church and State Identifier: 2126    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2006-02 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: Religion and Politics - Church and State Image: Let's Leave God Out of It, Janelle Delacata Union of Maine Visual Artists February 27 - March 17, 2006 Ethel H. Blum Gallery Opening Reception - Thursday, March 2, 2006
2127	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Moss & Wingspread Exhibit		Moss & Wingspread Exhibit Identifier: 2127    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2009-06 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: Moss & Wingspread Exhibit Celebrate the Moss and Wingspread galleries' artistic contributions to our community before the 2008 fire in Northeast Harbor. College of the Atlantic's Ethel H. Blum Gallery June 14--July 20, 2009 Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Opening Reception Sunday, June 14 from 5:30 --7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion Studio Patterns moderated by Suzette McAvoy* Thursday, July 2 from 5-7 p.m. McCormick Lecture Hall, COA Campus Participating Artists: Thistle Brown Rebekah Raye Philip Heckscher Adele Seronde *Suzette McAvoy is the former chief curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Me. Studio Patterns will feature four exhibited artists discussing their studio practices. Images top to bottom: Moss Gallery exterior & interior shots (courtesy of the Moss Gallery), Wingspread Gallery (courtesy of Norvie Bullock), "Sail" by Wingspread artist Mark Newton (courtesy of Mark Newton). [show more]
2137	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	A Place to Take Root, The History of the Terra Cotta Pot and the Garden Container in America		A Place to Take Root, The History of the Terra Cotta Pot and the Garden Container in America Identifier: 2137    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2004-08 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: August 14 - September 18 This special collection explores the secret history of the humble garden pot from its origins in the ancient world to its place in today's elegant contemporary garden. Featuring work by Guy Wolff, Whichford Studios, Lunaform, seldom-seen pieces by Eric Soderholtz and others. Guy Wolff will give a lecture and demonstration on the potters wheel at the opening reception. Opening reception on Sunday, August 15 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Image: page from original E.E. Soderholtz catalogue, circa 1920s. [show more]
2107	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Unmasking Tribal Africa		Unmasking Tribal Africa Identifier: 2107    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2004-06 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: Unmasking Tribal Africa June 10 - July 3 Spirit beings and memories of departed ancestors are imbued in ceremonial masks and baskets from the traditional cultures of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Africa, displayed in a special exhibit curated by Dominic Muntanga, COA class of 2004 The Ethel H. Blum Gallery College of the Atlantic
2108	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Philadelphia on the Rocks		Philadelphia on the Rocks Identifier: 2108    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2004-07 Collection: Blum Gallery Collection Description: Philadelphia on the Rocks July 7 - August 8, 2004 Philadelphians have long enjoyed the charms of Mount Desert Island. Six contemporary painters: Stanley Bielen, Emily Brown, Tish Ingersoll, Douglas Martenson, David Shevlino, and Scott Wright depict the contrasting scenes of city and country. Image 3: Wing & Sunspot oil on polyflax 62" x 48", 2003 Scott Wright
2182	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Collecting Art in America		Collecting Art in America Identifier: 2182    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2004-08-05 Collection: Dorr Museum Collection Description: A reception followed by a lecture and slide presentation, "Collecting Art in America," by John Wilmerding, Collector, Curator, and Scholar, Thursday, August 5, 2004. Reception at the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History. John Wilmerding is a professor of art at Princeton University and longtime summer resident of Northeast Harbor. He is the Visiting Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is an emeritus trustee of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont and on the Board of Trustees of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the College of the Atlantic. He was formerly Senior Curator of American Art and Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where he organized the landmark exhibition "American Light: The Luminist Movement" in 1980. Professor Wilmerding is the author of many books and catalogs on American art, including American Marine Painting (Harry N. Abrams, 1987), American Views (Princeton, 1991), monographic studies of Robert Salmon, Fitz Hugh Lane, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins, and The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast (Princeton University Press, 1994). His most recent book, Compass and Clock, illuminates major continuing themes in the national character. Professor Wilmerding recently bequeathed his private collection, which includes works by Church, Marin, Homer, and Lane, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where they are on view in the East Building through October 10, 2004. [show more]
2169	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	History and Destiny in World Fisheries		History and Destiny in World Fisheries Identifier: 2169    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2007-07 Collection: Dorr Museum Collection Description: Open House You are invited to a pre-lecture gathering at the Dorr Museum in honor of the museum's Summer of Rachel Carson. MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina talks about his use of science, art and literature to inspire a closer relationship with the sea and its conservation needs. An exhibit on Rachel Carson, created by COA students, will be on view. 5:30 p.m. in the George B. Dorr Museum Front text: Tosia australis Uniophora granifera PDF description: A brochure describing a 2007 Dorr Museum Champlain Society lecture by Carl Safina of the Blue Ocean Institute on "History and Destiny in World Fisheries," held in honor of the centennial of Rachel Carson. [show more]
2170	Publication, Newsletter	Other	Dorr Museum Newsletter, January 2002		Dorr Museum Newsletter, January 2002 Identifier: 2170    Type: Publication, Newsletter Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2002-01 Collection: Dorr Museum Collection Description: Dorr Museum newsletter, January 2002
2168	Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard	Other	Beauty and the Beast: Nature Images		Beauty and the Beast: Nature Images Identifier: 2168    Type: Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard Subject: Other Creator: College of the Atlantic Date: 2003-08 Collection: Dorr Museum Collection Description: Beauty and the Beast: Nature Images August 18 - October 12, 2003 This exhibit features nineteen color and photogravure prints of New York-based photographer Barbara Yoshida, whose work has been shown throughout the world. Since 1996, six artist's residencies in National Parks, including Acadia National Park, have provided an opportunity for Ms. Yoshida to reexamine her relationship with nature. Her large-format images capture the diversity of landscape on the planet and the various forms of life that it supports, and reflect her conviction that the preservation of nature with a camera is inextricably linked to the preservation of various species and their habitats. In other words, the medium fits the message. Front: Jawbone, Lilies, and Maple. 14" x 11" Silver Gelatin Print. Courtesy of Barbara Yoshida [show more]
1241	Map	Other	Altaic Languages		Altaic Languages Identifier: 1241    Type: Map Subject: Other Creator: Leung, Herman Date: 2004-03 Collection: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Description: Advanced GIS project mapping the prevalence and distribution of the three major branches of Altaic languages, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. Includes a table of all the languages within these three branches.
1249	Map	Other	Frenchman Bay Marine Resources		Frenchman Bay Marine Resources Identifier: 1249    Type: Map Subject: Other Creator: Wheeler, Bik Date: 2006 Collection: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Description: Map of mudflats, elver habitat, shellfish areas, and worm habitat in Frenchman Bay.
1239	Map	Other	Historic Resources of Castine: A Preliminary Survey of Architectural Features		Historic Resources of Castine: A Preliminary Survey of Architectural Features Identifier: 1239    Type: Map Subject: Other Creator: Casazza, Allison E. Date: 2007-07-01 Collection: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Description: Analysis of diverse historical architecture styles in Castine, Maine.

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