The new facility also houses the college's Arctic Studies Program, which puts a focus on Indigenous knowledge and cultures as central to addressing climate change.
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Art students’ work on display
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Artists exhibit now hung at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland features the work of 15 artists who have attended the internationally renowned school since its inception in 1946.
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Exhibits
Art Auction to benefit Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, view online through June 15, maineartgallerywiscasset.org.
“East End in Bloom,” installation of flowers through May at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland.
“The Ground Beneath You Holds You,” new works by Alice Jones, to June 26 at Elizabeth Moss Galleries, U.S. Route 1 in the Falmouth Shopping Center.
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It’s late morning on the polar ice when Eric Larsen unzips his tent to find white-out conditions obscuring everything from view. He’s had just a few hours of sleep, and he still overslept. Today he and his expedition partner, Ryan Waters, are making their final push to the North Pole, less than four miles away. But the whipping wind is pushing the big ice floe where they set up camp southward, and every moment counts.
At this point, the two veteran adventurers have spent 53 days inching across the Arctic sea ice, and today will be another slog through slushy leads and over hummocks. When they began planning this expedition, they expected it to be treacherous. That was the point. They wanted to show the world how climate change was already wreaking havoc on the North Pole in fact, they’re calling this the Last North Expedition. They predict that their method of reaching the Pole on foot will soon be impossible.