If you haven’t seen the exhibition There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, please make plans to do so. It opened two weeks ago and will remain on view until January 30, 2022. Featuring more than sixty artworks, it is a must-see exhibition about the visual representation of Black woman and their artistic achievements over the past two centuries. In conjunction with the exhibition, mark your calendars for October 14 and 15 when George Lopez, Bowdoin’s Beckwith Artist-in-Residence, performs a series of piano works by Black women. These concerts are his first at the Museum in almost two years. Also, the Museum will be screening in the Beam Classroom on October 21 Howardena Pindell’s iconic short film “Free, White and 21” (1980). Associate Professor of Africana Studies Judith Casselberry will lead a discussion after the screening. We look forward to seeing you back at the Museum.

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
exhibitions
Continuing
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art
There Is a Woman in Every Color examines the representation of Black women over the past two centuries.
Continuing
The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa
This exhibition highlights how the arts of Central and West Africa represent social themes across time.
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New Research Spotlights John La Farge's Athens
New York Times critic Eve Kahn recovers the remarkable life of Hettie Anderson (1873-1938), the model for the central figure in John La Farge’s mural at the BCMA
news
Music at the Museum is Back
Beckwith-Artist-in Residence George Lopez prepares to resume performances at the BCMA.
Object of the Month
Katie King ’23, Student Assistant to the Curator, discusses the Armagnac Breviary from the Wyvern Collection.
calendar

OCTOBER 14
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
5:00 p.m.

OCTOBER 14
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
7:00 p.m.

OCTOBER 15
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
12:00 noon

OCTOBER 21
Film and Discussion: Free, White, and 21 by Howardena Pindell
7:00 p.m.

OCTOBER 23
Virtual Family Saturday
membership
To our members,
 
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Museum Hours
Wednesday through Saturday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Thursday evenings until 8:30 p.m. | Closed on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and national holidays. 
 
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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Banner image: Benin Woman III, 1972 (detail), color woodblock, by David Driskell, American, 1931-2020. Museum Purchase, Museum Purchase Fund. This work is in the exhibition There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art.