Warhol in….Presque Isle! and Bangor! and Waterville!
Andy Warhol isn’t just visiting these places in Maine, he’s staying.
If you didn’t catch it in the papers about a month ago, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor and the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, are 3 of 183 college art museums in the USA to receive Warhol photographs as a gift to their permanent collections.
The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, under the auspices of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, wants his photographs to get out where people can see them – broaden the accessibility to them even in the corners of the country, like Presque Isle. Each Art Museum is getting in the range of 150 pics each, some polaroids, some b&w gelatin silver prints.
Keep in touch with these institutions because they plan on displaying some of the images as soon as they get their heads around the gifts, catalog them and figure out the best way to make them accessible to…you.
