The Museum of Art will host a series of exciting new exhibitions and public programs over the next month. On Thursday, September 28, we open two related site-specific works of art.
Let's Get Lost, a wall drawing by linn meyers, and
Listening Glass, an interactive sound work by Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, Josh Knowles, and meyers, animate the Walker Gallery through the intersection of line, color, sound, and gesture. Enjoy creating your own musical response to the installation! In addition, on October 4, we open
Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies, an exhibition that highlights two extraordinary artist-botanists. And be sure to see
Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting before it closes on October 28. Engaging programs with various artists, scholars, and students accompany each of these projects.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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RECENTLY OPENED
Let's Get Lost
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Listening Glass
Through September 29, 2019
Let's Get Lost, a site-specific drawing by linn meyers, will be complemented by an interactive sound installation, Listening Glass, created by Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles, in partnership with meyers. The joint projects, which will be situated in the Museum's Walker Gallery, will feature complementary visual and acoustic components that will be activated through audience participation.
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Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
This exhibition explores the question of Homer's relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. As one attuned to appearances and how to represent them, Homer understood that photography, as a new visual technology, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter, demonstrating his recognition that photography did not undermine, but instead complemented his larger artistic interests.
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Welcome to the new Academic-Year Interns
The BCMA is delighted to welcome eight new student interns to the Museum this fall. Four Student Assistants to the Curator, two Education Assistants, one Special Project Assistant, and one Communications Assistant join the team to contribute to a wide variety of projects and to support the Museum's development of collections research and outreach to communities on campus and beyond.
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The Digital Dimensions of Let's Get Lost and
Listening Glass
In the summer of 2017, I had the privilege of seeing D.C.-based artist linn meyers's
Our View from Here (2016) at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. At the time, I did not know that a year later I would have the even greater privilege of being part of the team at the Museum of Art involved in working with meyers as she developed
Let's Get Lost, her most recent site-specific wall drawing. meyers's commission for Bowdoin added an exciting dimension to the drawing I had seen in Washington: sound!
Let's Get Lost was conceived as part of a collaboration with three talented partners: Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles, who worked with meyers to develop:
Listening Glass.
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Flower Power: Museum opens new exhibition of work by two exceptional botanical artists
On October 4, the Museum of Art opens
Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies, a collaboration with the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives at the Bowdoin College Library, the New York Public Library, and the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The exhibition celebrates the work of two exceptional artists, Kate Furbish (1834-1931) and Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1938), each of whom devoted extended study to documenting the wild flowers of New England. Furbish and Lincoln were fascinated by plant identification and distribution, and both recognized the need for a visual record of New England's flora.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum this fall! There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
For more information, please check our home page, or contact Caroline Baljon, Membership and Programs Coordinator, at (207)-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public free of charge. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty who are actively engaged at the Museum. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by
joining today
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calendar
October 2
Crafting a Handheld History: Bowdoin's Molinari Medals in Context
4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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October 4
Imagination Cannot Depict - Historical Consciousness and the Arts of Eyewitness in the Civil War
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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October 10
Artist's Tour of the exhibition "Winslow Homer and the Camera"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 17
Taking a Photograph: Camera Technology of the Nineteenth Century
4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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October 18
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 19
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 23
Curator's Tour of
Winslow Homer and the Camera
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 25
Opening Celebration of Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln
4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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October 25
Drawing Workshop with artist Andrea Sulzer
7:00
pm
Museum of Art
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October 27
Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
10:00
am - 11:00 am
Museum of Art
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October 30
"You Can Handle This: Paul Manship's Hail to Dionysus and Medallic Art in the Modern Era"
12:00
pm
Museum of Art
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Banner image:
Detail from
Let's Get Lost by linn meyers.
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