September 17, 2009

Maps of the United States from the late 1700s and early 1800s will be on exhibit in the University Museum starting September 21, 2009. The exhibit runs through December 4.

“Mapping the Republic, 1790-1900″ features reproductions from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. There is surveying equipment, local maps from various eras, and atlas maps included in the exhibit. The compass belonging to Ben Thompson, the university’s benefactor, and a map of his 253 acre farm from 1891 is on display as well.

More information about the exhibit can be found in the Campus Journal.

The UNH Museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. during the semester. The museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library. For more information visit the University Museum website or call 2-1081.

April 24, 2009

The Betty and Barney Hill Exhibit is now open in the University Museum and runs until the end of May, 2009. The museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library.

The Betty and Barney Hill Collection in Special Collections consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.

April 21, 2009

A premiere exhibition of works by emerging visual artists from across the country will be on view at the University Museum beginning April 25, 2009 and runs through May 23.

The exhibition, Close Associations: MFA Invitational Exhibition, highlights contemporary trends in formal and conceptual development between Master of Fine Arts degree candidates at the University of New Hampshire and their colleagues throughout the country. Close Associations includes approximately 25 paintings, drawings, and two-dimensional mixed media work.

A preview reception, hosted by the Museum, will be held on Friday, April 24, from 5-7 p.m., and is open to the public free of charge.

In addition, it will be open to the public on May 8 from 5-7 p.m. in conjunction with the MFA Thesis Exhibition II’s preview reception at the Museum of Art, Paul Creative Arts Center.

The University Museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library. See the University Museum hours.

Close Associations features works by seven University of New Hampshire candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting, including: Suzie Dittenber, Christopher Dolan, Graham Loper, Erin Murray, Dustin O’Hara, Gregory Poulin, and Alan Rushing.

In addition, the exhibition hosts work from artists Chris Carter, University of Washington; Jessica George, Maine; Bree Johnson, Chicago Art Institute; Brian Kelley, Indiana University; Brendan Loper, American University; Aaron Lubrick, Kentucky; Will Reed, New York Studio School; Megan Rogers, University of Pennsylvania; Suzy Shireson, Indiana University; Carly Slone, Wright State University; Lana Stephens, American University; and Aron Wehr of Indiana University.

Close Associations is funded in part by the Graduate Painting Program at UNH.

For more information contact Dale Valena curator, University of New Hampshire Museum at (603)862-1081.

April 10, 2009

As Portsmouth resident Betty Hill drove her mother home on Route 108 at 8 p.m. Sept. 7, 1977, she saw large red and green lights on what she believed to be a UFO as she neared Trickling Falls in East Kingston. Later as she was driving home, she saw another UFO with red and green lights following railroad tracks near Route 107.

Betty Hill’s report of a UFO sighting is one of thousands she catalogued during her lifetime after she and her husband, Barney Hill, became known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961 in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

On Friday, April 17, a public forum will be held to celebrate the opening of the Betty and Barney Hill Collection exhibition. The forum and exhibition highlight the couple’s reported alien abduction in 1961, and Barney Hill’s civil rights activism in New Hampshire in the 1960s.

The public forum, “Betty and Barney Hill: Tales of Alien Abduction and Civil Rights Activism in New Hampshire,” begins at 1 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Room 334/336.

Following the forum, please celebrate the opening of the Betty and Barney Hill Collection exhibition with a reception at 3:30 p.m. in Milne Special Collections and Archives and The University Museum, Dimond Library, Level 1.

All events are free and open to the public.

The Betty and Barney Hill Collection consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.

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February 5, 2009

The University Museum presents a new exhibit, Expressions: UNH Student Art by Non-Majors. The student art show opens February 16 and runs until April 17.

The exhibit addresses the need for display space for creative students who do not major in fine and studio arts. About thirty students are participating, with each entering one or two pieces.

The museum will be hosting an opening reception on Monday, February 16 from 5pm to 7pm. All are welcome.

The University Museum in located on Level 1 in Dimond Library in Special Collections and Archives.