Happy New Year. We hope that you've had an enjoyable holiday break. While the Museum of Art has been closed for the past week, we will be open on Saturday-Sunday, December 29-30. Regular hours resume again on Wednesday, January 2. You will enjoy seeing the new exhibition Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment. Join us on January 24 for a panel discussion with three faculty members and the exhibition's curator Honor Wilkinson. Also, be sure to check out the new faculty/student-curated exhibition, Fashioning Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria, which opens on January 17.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
exhibitions
CLOSING SOON
A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection
Closing January 6, 2019
A Handheld History allows viewers to experience the intimacy and poignancy of portrait medals spanning nearly five centuries and to consider the lessons they have to impart to contemporary audiences.
BCMA Receives Gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art was recently selected as one of ten academic art museums to receive a selection of ten artist prints and eight artist proofs by the innovative artist Helen Frankenthaler in the inaugural year of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative.
A lidded porcelain box from the Ming Dynasty is January's Object of the Month. A favorite piece of Jenny F. So, a leading expert in Chinese art who recently visited the Museum, this exquisite box depicts a teacher surrounded by his students, some at work and some at play. Click below to read more about this piece and about So's visit.
In 1960, Nigeria gained political independence from Britain.
Fashioning Modernity, curated by Dr. Allison Martino and seventeen Bowdoin students in her Fall 2018 "African Art and Visual Culture" course, seeks to answer the question of how political independence changed artistic production and the cultural meanings of such practices in Nigeria.
Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this winter!
There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
The support of our members helps realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty, who are actively engaged in 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!
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge, although donations are welcome. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance.
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