Museum
College Historian Earl H. Smith tracks the growth of the museum, focusing more on people than on the art they helped collect. The names are familiar: Lunder, Cummings, Abbott, Katz, Schupf, Strider and Cotter, among others. Smith reveals their roles in the museum's evolution from the early years, when a collection of primitive portraits hung in Foss dining hall, to the present, when the gift of the Lunder Collection made national news. Supporters of the museum have created "a most remarkable masterpiece indeed."
Wíwənikan…the beauty we carry is led by Jennifer Neptune, a Penobscot basketmaker and beadworker, and Kathleenn Mundell, the director of Cultural Resources, who have brought together leaders in arts and culture from the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki peoples-collectively known as the Wabanaki. The exhibition, catalog, and associated programs feature work by contemporary artists who are sustaining and extending some of North America's oldest artistic traditions. Curating and interpreting in their own words; members of these commutes tell stories of beauty, loss, and resilience that they have carried forward from fifteen thousand years of Wabanaki history. 140 pages with full color photographs.