Maine College of Art News

By Shlomit Auciello Medomak Valley High School senior Hillia Aho was named as a runner-up for the 2nd Congressional District's 2012 Congressional Art Competition.

That will be the case again on Tuesday, when the Portland art school confers honorary degrees on philanthropist S. Donald Sussman and historian Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.

Art 21 Season Six: Change April 26, 5pm, Osher Hall Artists in Context, Maine Arts Commission, and Maine College of Art present a preview screening of the first episode of "Art 21 Season Six: Change." The first hour of Season 6 features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation-cultural, material, and aesthetic-and actively ... (more)

Historian and author Michael Kazin has just published "American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation." Kazin was in Maine to speak at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Maine.