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Our Artistic Footprint: The Suburbs: An unlikely seller
It has been about a month since the latest album from Arcade Fire was released. Since then "The Suburbs" has garnered heaps of critical praise, produced an innovative music video that was released online, and the album even hit number one on the Billboard 200. Not bad for a baroque pop outfit from Canada whose main concern is creating social commentary rather than hit singles.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Leonardo ’01 draws from past, Bowdoin life in performance art
Three years after graduating from Bowdoin, visual arts major Shaun El C. Leonardo '03 had an artistic experience that made "[art] grad school look like kid stuff."
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Our Artistic Footprint: At Bowdoin and afar, Kennedy ’76 convinced of love for writing
Publishing prolifically since his first travel book in 1988, Douglas Kennedy '76 has been praised by reviewers as an author who consistently "knows how to keep the pages turning."
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Our Artistic Footprint: Weaver ’85 locates fulfillment in performance art, education
"So much of being an artist is based on doing it yourself," said Deke Weaver '85 looking back on the trajectory of his career as a multi-media performance artist and college art professor.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Antholis ’84 combines intrigue, narrative and history at HBO
"Show, don't tell," is a mantra repeated in classrooms from middle school through college as teachers push their students to bring narratives to life. After graduating from Bowdoin in 1984, Kary Antholis has taken this advice to heart and brought it to its full potential.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Wood reaffirms love for theater and dance after Bowdoin
At the end of his senior year, Michael Wood '06 had the challenging and rewarding theatrical experience to which many Bowdoin thespians aspire; Wood embarked on an independent study in which he directed a production of The Laramie Project, the widely celebrated play about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Durrie ’02 finds power and light in printing
In the summer of 2004, two years after graduating from Bowdoin, visual arts major Kyle Durrie '02 faced an inspirational lull that would later be recognized as the revolutionary turning point in her creative process. "I was at an artist residency in Skowhegan and I started having a hard time figuring out what I was doing. I'd just had a show in Portland, Maine at Space Gallery and I was really proud of the works I'd put up."
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Our Artistic Footprint: Special effects artist Fogler ’90 realizes fantasy in ‘Avatar’
Next week, as Bowdoin students wrap up the semester's work, the film "Avatar" will hit the big screen and bring special effects artist and class of 1990 alum Dave Fogler's newest creations to life.
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Our Artistic Footprint: From actor to producer, Salter ’07 makes the world his stage
Like many artistic alumni, Theo Salter '07 came to Bowdoin with an interest in developing his passion for theater and taking advantage of the academic diversity that Bowdoin has to offer.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Davis ’84 adds sporty spice to shoe collection
Brunswick, Maine, may not show up on the fashion radars, but for fashion designer Ruthie Davis '84, the Bowdoin campus and community provided a blank canvas for her early experimentation with fashion.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Herlihy ’08 finds niche in museum education
Kate Herlihy '08, the current curatorial assistant at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, recognized her passion for art history midway through her academic career.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Sculptor Kavanaugh ’01 shapes life around Bowdoin-influenced art
As a medium, an expression and a creation, sculpture provides Wade Kavanaugh '01 with a way of interacting with the world around him. Although Kavanaugh's interest in and passion for the visual arts existed long before college, he developed a relationship with sculpture while at Bowdoin, where he majored in economics and minored in visual arts.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Harrisburg ’90 installs self in New York gallery
For Halley K. Harrisburg '90, the world of art and art history—a world which she continues to explore and redefine—first presented itself to her within the Bowdoin classroom.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Gould ’00 marries music and business as industry executive
For Andrew Gould '00, creative director at EMI records, it is the passion for the music—for the melodies, the industry and the business behind it—that has long been a driving force.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Butler ’00 sculpts visual arts passion out of liberal arts education
For Ben Butler '00, tracking his artistic passion back to Bowdoin is not a difficult task. "It was by the end of my first year," Butler explained, "my first semester, even, that I found the visual arts to be the only discipline in which I could really bring together all of my interests. Whether it was science, philosophy or Asian studies, the visual arts emerged as the ideal discipline for synthesizing all of my interests. And it still is."
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Our Artistic Footprint: Artist Bettigole ’08 goes ‘Wild’ with narrative Web comic
Picture this narrative: a young boy living and making his way in his own mini wilderness. While this may sound like the imagined utopia that many of us reveled in growing up, for alumnus Alex Bettigole '08, this narrative is one that he continues to spin in his bi-weekly Web comic Oak Street Wilds.
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Our Artistic Footprint: Rich ’03 climbs to museum dream job after college art history passion
There is an “Aha” moment during one of those mesmerizing classes when you realize “This is what you want to be studying. This is where your passion lies.”
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Our Artistic Footprint: Ball ’87 still influenced by time at Bowdoin, Visual Arts Department
Although now living and working in Atlanta, Georgia, architect Scott Ball '87 still points to his Bowdoin experience as one that was and incredibly formative. "As an architect and town planner, primarily what I'm looking at has all grown from trying to figure out how design works in people's lives," Ball said. "And this is an exploration that fundamentally began for me at Bowdoin."
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Our Artistic Footprint: Singer-songwriter Farrell ’05 finds success beyond the bubble
Two weeks after graduating from Bowdoin College in May 2005, Samantha Farrell left behind a rural, Maine summer and moved across the country to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of being a singer-songwriter.