Student Artworks

Artworks created by UNE students across the university. To view artworks created only by students in Creative and Fine Arts courses, view page Creative and Fine Arts Student Artwork.

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Decomposition

Kaitlin Thibeau

Original: 22"x60" mixed media including printmaking, watercolor, acrylic, and drawing. Created for UNE Studio Concentration and Exhibition Seminar courses.
Spring Peonies

Kaitlin Thibeau

Original: 10"x13" mixed media including printmaking, watercolor, acrylic, and drawing. Created for UNE Studio Concentration and Exhibition Seminar courses.
Vernal Pool

Kaitlin Thibeau

Original: 20"x20" mixed media including printmaking, watercolor, acrylic, and drawing. Created for UNE Studio Concentration and Exhibition Seminar courses.
Tony The Trash Turtle

Brianna Frankina

Pollution is both a global and local issue. Tony was created from marine debris found at Freddy Beach and East Point Sanctuary. If you look at Tony's shell, you will notice that it is constructed from pieces of plastic straws. If you want to support Tony and keep straws off the beach, you can pledge to skip the straw! Tony is a reminder that we must all be responsible and clean up our trash when we go to the beach!
Night Vision

Kaitlin Thibeau

Original: 11"x14" mixed media including printmaking, watercolor, acrylic, and drawing. Created for UNE Studio Concentration and Exhibition Seminar courses.
Stone Unearthed

Kaitlin Thibeau

Original: 11"x14" mixed media including printmaking, watercolor, acrylic, and drawing. Created for UNE Studio Concentration and Exhibition Seminar courses.
Colin The Cormorant

Chelsey Jankauskas and Samantha Schultz

Colin the Cormorant was an art project created to represent the effects of pollution on local organisms, such as Colin the Cormorant. We hope by seeing this sculpture people think twice about how they dispose of their trash. Colin is made from trash collected at Fortunes Rocks Beach in Biddeford Pool. We chose to make a cormorant because we frequently see cormorants around the Biddeford Pool area and they are a seabird that has been impacted by various types of pollution (garbage, air pollution, etc.).
Ocean Optimism

Jenna Pannone, Madison Mark, and Crista Kieley

In our class, Intro to Environmental Issues, we focused on marine mammals for a section. We chose to highlight two cases, the Hawaiian Monk Seal and the Vacquita, in which severely endangered species may have a chance at survival due to the work of highly dedicated individuals and organizations. We wanted to raise awareness of these species, the work being done, and the power we have to create change.
Compassionate Touch Artworks: Listen To Identify, Validation, Everyone Has A Story, Not Alone, The Compassionate Touch

Jessfor Baugh

Artworks created during the course of UNE student project Compassionate Touch. UNE Dental Medicine students collaborated with Creative and Fine Arts faculty and Dental Medicine faculty to create the film Compassionate Touch, focusing on five stages associated with anxious dental patients, as depicted through artwork, interprofessional interviews and scholarly sources. The film highlights the current understanding and management of the dental needs for high fear patients before, during, and after their visit to the dentist, and how interprofessional health care providers can assist patients to achieve quality patient-centered care.

Artwork Descriptions

First image is a photograph of the five artworks taken while they were displayed in UNE's Portland Campus Art Gallery during the exhibition Wonder, held February-March, 2016.

Listen to Identify
ARTIST STATEMENT: Anxiety and fear may cause a overwhelming feeling of constriction throughout a person’s body. They may experience involuntary shaking, nausea, vomiting, or shortness of breath. The suffering is not always visible and patients do not always reveal the underlying cause of their anxiety. As healthcare providers, we need listen to identify. The chaotic textures and colors in the painting illustrate the complexity of fear/anxiety the patient may be experiencing.

Validation
ARTIST STATEMENT: It’s okay to not feel okay. It’s okay to feel vulnerable, because patients are placed in vulnerable positions. They cannot physically see or possibly even comprehend what is happening in their mouth. Any part of the dental visit (overstimulation, brightness, anesthetic injections, pain, trauma, sounds, and/or other dental experiences) may negatively affect the patient and prevent them from receiving the quality care that they need.

Everyone has a Story
ARTIST STATEMENT: As the title suggests, everyone has a story. This represents the anxious person discovering and revealing what their story truly is. As they unravel and reveal themselves to the doctor, some of the anxiety begins to dissipate. The patient is still constricted and affected, but it’s lessening as the patient and doctor develop a deeper level of communication and understanding.

Not Alone
ARTIST STATEMENT: The painting depicts the doctor underneath the patient. The humility shown by lowering one’s self gives the other the position of power and confidence to open up. When the patient shares their story, the doctor listens and responds with empathy, emphasizing that they are not alone. The flowing movements of the artwork shows the continued lessening of fear/anxiety and the development of trust.

The Compassionate Touch
ARTIST STATEMENT: The doctor and patient are depicted on the same level as equals, joining hands in agreement and trust. Now with mutual understanding of anxieties and boundaries to respect, the dentist can move forward and proceed with treatment.
Drosophila CNS Art

Jessica Davis-Knowlton

Idealized co-expression of FruM and DopEcR in Drosophila melanogaster brain and VNC with neuron web background. This image was generated as an art piece while I was determining whether FruM, a protein important for some sexual dimorphic attributes in flies, co-expresses with DopEcR, a novel plasma-membrane bound steroid hormone receptor.
Feeling A Little Like A Jelly Fish

Taylor Follansbee

The focus of our research is to investigate various cellular factors that are involved in the formation of sensitization in the Drosophila melanogaster. As a key aspect of our work, it is necessary to evaluate the morphometry of the primary nociceptor neurons to understand whether the effects seen in behavior are due to changes in the morphometry, or if it is a separate cellular event. These neurons have been genetically manipulated to express green fluorescence protein (GFP), originally discovered in jellyfish. This allows us to view and quantitate this class of neurons using the confocal microscope. As an interesting note, this image was taken from a living fruit fly larva.
Motile Cilia In Brain Ventricle

Tabea Moll

The motile cilia in the ventricle of the mouse brain are stained with Arl13B. Motile cilia are microtubule based tubular structures which appear only on certain areas of the body. The Arl13B antibody binds selective to ADP-ribosylated factor-like protein 13B, a small GTPase, in motile cilia. This image was taken from a coronal cut mouse brain and the nuclei are co-stained with DAPI.