With students arriving to campus this week, the new academic year - the 218th in Bowdoin's history - is right around the corner. The Museum of Art looks forward to welcoming new and returning students and faculty for classes, research, and a wide variety of public programs, including the always-popular fall student social on September 13. Also, be sure to visit
Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts, which runs through November 10. This exhibition of contemporary art works from the Museum's permanent collection continues to attract broad critical accolades. In September we begin a series of public conversations with faculty, students, and experts from beyond campus regarding works in that and other exhibitions that provoke important questions about the past, present, and future. See the event listings below and the fall events calendar for more details.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CONTINUING
Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts
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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Let's Get Lost, a site-specific drawing by linn meyers is complemented by an interactive sound installation,
Listening Glass, created by Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles, in partnership with meyers. The projects include visual and acoustic components that can be activated through audience participation.
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"Listening Glass Live" Invites Audience Participation
Multimedia artists use smartphones to interact with meyers' wall drawing, creating a work that combines physical movement with audio and visual art.
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Photogrammetry at the British Museum
Sean Burrus and Jim Higginbotham recently visited the British Museum to execute 3D scans of Assyrian objects in their collection in preparation for the upcoming exhibition at Bowdoin,
Assyria to America
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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
Gallery Conversation: "Tracing History, Picturing the Nation"
12:00 p.m.
Museum of Art
SEPTEMBER 23
"What Blackouts Illuminate"
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
SEPTEMBER 28
Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
10:00 noon
Museum of Art
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