Ethel H. Blum Gallery of Art

About the Artist

College of the Atlantic''s Ethel H. Blum gallery offers students at the college along with the larger community of downeast Maine, the opportunity of viewing a wide range of contemporary and classic art.

The gallery presents about 16 shows each year. Exhibits have included Paul Gauguin watercolors, found-art sculptures by Maine artist Wally Warren, drawings by Heidi Fasnacht, and the work of students and faculty.

Because the Blum Gallery is the only year-round gallery on Mount Desert Island, it serves a vast community of artists and art lovers. Come summer, visitors from around the world can be found at gallery exhibits. For them and for COA students, its purpose is to delight, inspire and challenge through the fundamental insights and wide-ranging connections that makes art an essential expression of human ecology.