MECA News

July 2, 2020 The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Maine College of Art (MECA) is pleased to announce the opening of Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan to the public. Featuring a . . .

July 1, 2020 Maine College of Art is honored to announce the election of Denise Carey, Diane Garthwaite, and Gimbala Sankare to the Board of Trustees and the re-election of former Trustee Debby Dluhy, . . .

Dear members of the MECA Community, I am writing to you today to share an update on our plan to welcome students, faculty, and staff to campus as safely as possible this summer and fall. Maine College of Art . . .

Updated: June 29, 2020 Please continue to check this webpage as we will be updating it regularly. If you have a question that has not yet been answered below, please reach out to the relevant department: . . .

Annual art sale to continue online, raising critical funds for student scholarships while supporting emerging and established artists June 10, 2020 – Maine College of Art (MECA) is pleased to present the . . .

Celebrating the Class of 2020 View a recording of the Class of 2020 Virtual Commencement Ceremony. June 8, 2020 To honor the Class of 2020 during a time when large gatherings are not permitted, MECA celebrated . . .

Photograph by Tim Greenway Salt ’03. June 1, 2020 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin From coast to coast, for more than . . .

Portland, Maine: Maine College of Art (MECA) today announced a celebration of the graduating Class of 2020 and shared plans to welcome students back for Summer and Fall academic programs. Graduating Class of . . .

The Belvedere Fund for Professional Development in the field of crafts at Maine College of Art was established in 2008 in memory of Deborah Pulliam of Castine, Maine. The Fund is available to all alumni who . . .

#mymecacommunity We have launched the #mymecacommunity campaign to help our students stay connected to MECA and to reinforce that faculty and staff are still here to support students even though we are no . . .

March 29, 2020 Dear MECA Community Members, I hope you are reading this from a safe place and that you and your friends and family are well. In my last message to our community, I shared the news that Maine . . .

March 19, 2020 Dear MECA Community Members, I am writing to you today with a heavy heart knowing that we are all facing a life-altering global crisis that will affect all of us in ways we can’t even . . .

PORTLAND, Maine –  In a continued effort to protect the Maine College of Art (MECA) community, the College today announced the following: Spring Break Extension Spring Break will be extended for an . . .

Maine College of Art Preparedness Against the Coronavirus (March 12, 2020 Update)

To see our most up-to-date announcement (March 12, 2020), please click here. February 28, 2020 To the MECA community, We are tracking the progress of the coronavirus outbreaks globally and in the US. There is . . .

Maine College of Art is excited to kick off 2020 by congratulating many of our distinguished faculty members on their exciting achievements. Marian Baker, Stephen Benenson, Michel Droge MFA ’10, Annika . . .

The ICA at MECA is pleased to announce Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan, featuring a survey of works by two artists who have worked collaboratively for more than 15 years.

MECA is proud to announce its inaugural Resilience Week, a project conceived by students and developed by the campus Diversity Committee and Students of Color Coalition.