Keywords: Mainer Project
Item 102718
"Portrait of Hawa" Mainer project, Portland, 2016
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2015 Location: Portland Media: Ink and charcoal on paper, wood frame
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Site Page
Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Civil War
… the men of Maine dutifully served; about 70,000 Mainers served the U.S. as soldiers and sailors. The City Annual Report for 1865-66 states that…
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
… in August during the 1990s would have revealed Mainers, Russians, and Japanese folks gathered together in everyday clothes, belting out a moving…
Story
C19 on Pine Point Beach
by Beth, Scarborough
Cancer patient experience during pandemic
