At the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, you can travel the globe and encounter works created over more than 5,000 years ago. When you next visit, please be sure to see two new exhibitions. The first,
Assyria to America, brings together loans from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the contemporary artist Michael Rakowitz to shed new light on the history and legacy of BCMA's ancient Assyrian reliefs. The second,
African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits, to open on November 7, was curated by Lauryn Dove '21 and draws new attention on a group of outstanding portraits from the Americas. As always, exciting public programs accompany these and other exhibitions.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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OPENING SOON
African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits
This exhibition features outstanding portraits of and by leading African American artists from prior to slavery's abolition in the United States to today.
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Presenting exceptional works of art since 1970 from the collection, many on view for the first time, this exhibition highlights art's purposes as tools for observation, inquiry, and learning in a liberal arts context.
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Two Exhibitions Celebrating AF/AM/50
The Museum of Art will open two exhibitions,
African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits and
The Art of David C. Driskell H'89 and the Art that Inspires Him to coincide with
AF/AM/50, a weekend commemorating a half century of multicultural community and scholarship at Bowdoin College.
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Lauryn Dove '21 discusses Robert Frank's 1955 photograph,
Trolley-New Orleans, an image that demonstrates the power dynamics that influenced how those pictured presented themselves and navigated the world.
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The Artist Archives Initiative
On Monday, November 4, the Museum of Art will welcome Deena Engel and Glenn Wharton to campus, two scholars who will discuss the development of a new platform that will increase access to archival information about contemporary art.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this fall!
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
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calendar
NOVEMBER 4
The Artist Archives Initiative: The Digital Future of Preserving Artistic Practices Past
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
NOVEMBER 7
Curators' Tour: "African/American: Two Centuries of Portraits"
12:00 noon
Museum of Art
NOVEMBER 12
"Land & Sea: Painting Coastal Economies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
Museum of Art
NOVEMBER 14
Insights: Bowdoin Slam Poets at the Museum
NOVEMBER 21
Student Research Night at the Museum
Museum of Art
Gallery Conversation: "Assyria to America"
NOVEMBER 23
Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
The Museum of Art will be
closed on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2019;
open on Friday, November 29, 2019.
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Banner image
: detail from
Autumn, oil on canvas, by Benjamin Foster. Gift of Mrs. Woodbury Bedell. Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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