January e-bulletin

Happy New Year! As we welcome the arrival of 2024 and the new Spring Semester, we look forward to seeing you at the Museum of Art, which will reopen after the holidays on Tuesday, January 9th. We encourage you to enjoy three recently opened exhibitions: Face Forward: Recent Acquisitions (on view until March 10th), Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest (on view until June 2nd), and Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures (on view until June 2nd). On January 25th, please join us for a festive opening of Without Apology, featuring the exhibition’s curators, Bowdoin faculty members Connie Y. Chiang, Shruti Devgan, Belinda Kong, Nancy E. Riley, and Shu-chin Tsui, as well as former student intern Emily Pratt ’24. This month we also debut a new exhibition, “The Book of Two Hemispheres:” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe, curated by Sean Kramer, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. We also invite you to learn more about the outstanding Student Ambassadors who have recently joined the Museum and to delve into an exciting new acquisition, Hong Zhang’s The Eye of the Tornado, 2023, now on view in Threads: Artists Weave Their Worlds.

We look forward to seeing you at the Museum!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear

Co-Directors

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

exhibitions

Ongoing

Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest

The exhibition features over 60 of the artist's portrait drawings, completed between 1957 and 2023.

Ongoing

Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures

The exhibition spotlights the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American artistic expression over the past century.

spotlight

Exhibition on Uncle Tom's Cabin in the United States and Europe opens this month

This exhibition explores the international circulation of imagery that propelled the widespread if controversial fame of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

news

Introducing the 2023–2024 Museum Student Ambassadors

Eight Bowdoin students work to increase campus and local community involvement with the Museum.

Object of the Month

Reflections on the recent acquisition The Eye of the Tornado by Chinese American artist Hong Zhang.

calendar

January 25, 2024

Tour and Reception celebrating Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures

4:30 p.m. | BCMA

Museum Hours

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 pm | Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. | Sunday: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Closed on Mondays and national holidays. The Museum will be closed from December 24, 2023 through January 8, 2024 for the winter break.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance.

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Banner image: Winter Storm, ca. 1963 (detail), oil on canvas by Marguerite Thompson Zorach, American, 1887-1968. Gift of Mary G. York in memory of Gerald M. York, class of 1937. 2006.9.2.