In The News

April 21, 2022: UMF New Commons Project serves up tasty events with Fannie Farmer’s “Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” topic (Daily Bulldog)

April 1, 2022: ‘Living the Good Life’ is topic of UMF New Commons keynote on April 8 (Bangor Daily News)

March 2, 2022: Celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson next topic featured by UMF New Commons Project (The Irregular)

February 4, 2022: Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’ next featured topic of the UMF New Commons project (Lewiston Sun Journal)

November 19, 2021: ‘Death of a Salesman’ to be explored by UMF New Commons Project (Lewiston Sun Journal)

September 29, 2021: David Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars?’ next featured topic of UMF New Commons Project events (Morning Sentinel)

April 6, 2021: UMF New Commons Program features next nominated work, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Bangor Daily News)

April 6, 2021: New Commons Project highlights importance of “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Daily Bulldog)

March 10, 2021: UMF New Commons spotlights Solange’s “A Seat at the Table” (Daily Bulldog)

February 13, 2021: UMF New Commons presents Dungeons & Dragons as next featured topic (Daily Bulldog)

January 22, 2021: Return of UMF New Commons Project begins with George Orwell’s classic science fiction novel ‘1984’ (Bangor Daily News)

December 10, 2019: Land Acknowledgements for New Commons Project (UMF English Department Blog)

November 19, 2019: UMF New Commons Project to feature work of James Baldwin (Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel)

November 18, 2019: UMF New Commons project features work of James Baldwin (Lewiston Sun Journal)

November 14, 2019: UMF New Commons Project features work of James Baldwin (Daily Bulldog)

October 23, 2019: UMF New Commons Project to present several programs on satire and ‘The Simpsons’ (Lewiston Sun Journal)

October 19, 2019: Satire and The Simpsons: The next topic of UMF New Commons Project (Daily Bulldog)

October 10, 2019: New Commons Project Sheds Light on Norridgewock Massacre (The Farmington Flyer)

September 25, 2019: UMF New Commons Project spotlights Cheryl Savageau’s “DIRT ROAD HOME” (Maine Arts Commission)

September 18, 2019: New Commons Project at UMF spotlights the importance of the canoe in Maine (Lewiston Sun Journal)

July 2019: Community Culture (Maine. The Magazine)

June 20, 2019: Students participate in Story in Verse Contest (Daily Bulldog)

May 26, 2019: The New Commons project seeks book, movie, music ideas (Mount Desert Islander)

April 7, 2019: UMF New Commons brings world-class orchestra (Daily Bulldog)

March 15, 2019: Exhibit of Fedco Seed Catalogs at Phillips Library (Daily Bulldog)

March 13, 2019: Heavy Meta Podcast #20: The New Commons Project 

March 8, 2019: Fedco Seed Catalog focus of this month’s New Commons Project (Daily Bulldog)

March 7, 2019: Fedco Seeds is next featured work by UMF New Commons Project (Lewiston Sun Journal)

February 15, 2019: UMF New Commons Project Selects Kendrick Lamar Album “DAMN.” (The Farmington Flyer)

February 13, 2019: UMF New Commons Project announces events (Lewiston Sun Journal)

November 15, 2018: UMF’s next New Commons Project looks at Jane Austen novel (Lewiston Sun Journal)

October 20, 2018: Nick Tobier Delivers Keynote at New Commons Project (Stamps School of Art & Design News & Events)

October 18, 2018: John Coltrane subject of New Commons Project at UMF (Lewiston Sun Journal)

October 17, 2018: Jazz giant John Coltrane subject of UMF New Commons Project (Daily Bulldog)

October 10, 2018: New Commons Project: Whose public are we looking at? (Daily Bulldog)

October 1, 2018: Mysterious graffiti artist Banksy explored by UMF (Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel)

September 29, 2018: Graffiti artist Banksy explored by UMF New Commons Project (Daily Bulldog)

September 12, 2018: Scarborough library talk to examine ‘The Wire’ (Portland Press Harold)

April 13, 2018: UMF Reveals Final 12 Nominations for New Commons Project (The Farmington Flyer)

October 16, 2017: New Commons Project (The Farmington Flyer)

September 7, 2017: Nominations sought for UMF cultural archive (Lewiston Sun Journal)

July 18, 2017: University of Maine at Farmington receives $500,000 grant for statewide digital arts and humanities project (Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel)

July 12, 2017: UMF awarded Mellon Foundation grant (The Irregular)

July 11, 2017: UMF awarded Mellon Foundation grant (Mainebiz)

July 11, 2017: UMF awarded grant to create New Commons Project (Daily Bulldog)