The UNE Biddeford Campus, Ketchum Library UNE Art Gallery presents ‘A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers’

The University of New England’s UNE Art Gallery in the Ketchum Library presents an exhibition titled, "A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers" from August 24 through December 16, 2015.

The exhibition features quotations by Maine women writers, edited by Liza Bakewell, Ph.D., director of Maine Women Write, paired with black and white images by Maine photographer Kerry Michaels.

Maine has been home to great women authors—erudite, wise, and passionate—whose writing has changed the world. Maine women, armed with pen and paper, have influenced the outcome of the Civil War, mobilized women’s political and domestic rights and powered the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They have upset the status quo again and again. Many of them—not only the well known—have made this world a better place.

The exhibition is based on the book A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers by Bakewell and Michaels, which contains 100 quotations and 100 photographs. The book and 50 of the 100 pairs will be on display. The interplay of the words and photographs presented creates a synergy that celebrates the essence of place, women’s lives and the singular world that is Maine.

All of the women writers featured have connections to Maine. Most have lived in the state for many years—some for their entire lives—and have produced in Maine the works that are quoted in the exhibition. Writers whose quotations are featured include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louise Bogan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Rachel Carson.

UNE’s Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., faculty director of the Maine Women Writers Collection and Dorothy M. Healy Chair of Literature and Health, will give a talk titled, "Beyond Vacationland: Regionalism, Maine Women Writers, and 'A Gateless Garden,'" on September 15, 2016 at noon in the Ketchum Library UNE Art Gallery.

The exhibition and related programs are free and open to the public.

The UNE Art Gallery is located on UNE's Biddeford Campus at 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, Maine, 04005.  Gallery Hours, when UNE is in session, are Sunday-Saturday 8 a.m. – 11 p.m. For more information please contact Cally Gurley at 221-4324, or cgurley@une.edu. For directions to UNE Biddeford Campus please consult the UNE website's homepage.

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions