As we come to the close of 2021, we want to acknowledge the work of the Museum’s outstanding staff and to thank each of you for your friendship and support. Despite the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum remains an invaluable educational resource for faculty, students, and visitors from near and far. This month we hope you will join us on December 8 for a special virtual program about select acquisitions from the past year, and on December 9 and 10, for a year-end series of concerts by George Lopez. Tickets are now available for these popular concerts. In observance of the December holidays, please note that the Museum will close for two weeks, beginning on December 24. When we re-open on January 11, we are happy to report that the Museum will return to being open six days a week. Have a wonderful holiday season, and we look forward to seeing you at the Museum again soon.

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
exhibitions
Closing Soon

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.
Continuing

Transformations: New Acquisitions of Global Contemporary Art
This installation highlights contemporary artworks acquired by the Museum in the last two years.
spotlight
3D Scanning Collaboration at Monticello
This fall the Museum undertook an exciting project at Monticello in partnership with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
news
To Count Art an Intimate Friend
Brooke Wrubel, Bowdoin Class of 2021, shares reflections on her experience working at the Museum as a student assistant to the curator.
A Gift of Photographs by Irving Penn
Penn’s former studio assistant Robert Freson donates an extraordinary collection of images from all periods of the New York photographer’s august career.
calendar

DECEMBER 1, 2021
Art Up Close | Episode 10
12:00 noon | Online Event

DECEMBER 2-4, 2021
Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop
20% off all purchases

DECEMBER 4, 2021
Virtual Family Saturday
11:00 a.m.

DECEMBER 8, 2021
Highlighted Acquisitions of 2021
4:30 p.m. | Online Event

DECEMBER 9, 2021
Music at the Museum
5:00 p.m.

DECEMBER 9, 2021
Music at the Museum
7:00 p.m.

DECEMBER 10, 2021
Music at the Museum
12:00 noon
membership
To our members,
 
The support of our members helps realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings. Membership serves as a special connection to a community of students and faculty who are actively engaged in the Museum. If you are a member, please renew! If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Museum of Art by joining today 
 
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.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art | 9400 College Station | Brunswick, ME 04011 | 207.725.3275 

Banner image: New York Landscape, 1857, (detail), oil on canvas by Ann L. Payson Skillings. Gift of Glenn B. Skillin, Kindness of E. Christopher Livesay