Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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Bowdoin museum to highlight acquisitions from 2020
A special presentation at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, will explore a selection of art works – including this Greek Marble Funerary Stele, from Ionia, marble, Second Century BCE – added to the collection in the last year at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Works from the ancient Mediterranean to present-day Maine and […]
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Bowdoin Museum of art to host Virtual Family Saturday
Elizabeth Humphrey, curatorial assistant and manager of student programs, will lead an all-ages program at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12, including a discussion of works on view and a related hands-on activity, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick. This session focuses on the exhibition “The Presence of the Past: Art from […]
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Maine State Historian to give talk about latest book
An illustrated presentation by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., Maine State Historian, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, celebrates the publication of his book, “Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870,” just released by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and Brandeis University Press. This talk will highlight the early printed views of Maine’s […]
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A conversation with photographer Walter Smalling
Photographer Walter Smalling will participate in a moderated online discussion at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, hosted by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. In 2018 and 2019, Smalling traveled almost 6,000 miles by car photographing the homes, studios, and favorite places of 26 celebrated visual artists who have found creative inspiration in Maine. […]
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Artists to give presentation on ‘Fatherland’ exhibit at Bowdoin museum
Collaborating artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, recipients of the 2019 Fellowship in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, will address their collaboration for an ongoing series “Fatherland: Culture, Violence, and the Peruvian Landscape” that began in 2014 and uses photography and film to explore LGBTQ communities in contemporary Peru in a presentation at […]
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Student Gallery Talk to focus on African/American portraits
Members of Bowdoin’s Black Student Union and Multicultural Coalition will discuss a selection of works from the exhibition, “African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits,” at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is […]
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Best known as a muralist, Rufus Porter was much more
An exhibition at Bowdoin College reveals that the greatest accomplishments of the painter, who grew up in Bridgton, were in science and invention.
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Rufus Porter exhibit topic of lecture at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and Old Dominion Professor, Council of the Humanities (2019-20), Princeton University, will deliver the keynote lecture “New Inventions, Scientific Principles, and Curious Works: Rufus Porter and Nineteenth-Century Dreams of Interconnection” for the exhibition “Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860,” at […]