Year: 2025
Brunswick
Brunswick’s ECC hosts art-build supporting anti-Trump protest in Portland
On Saturday, January 18, the Electric Cottage Collective (ECC) hosted an art-build entitled “Art Build: Defeat Trump’s Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda” in preparation for the “Maine Progressive Groups Rally to Protest Trump’s Agenda.” Participants at the art-build had the opportunity to …
BCMA
BCMA Curatorial Fellow Sean Kramer opens capstone exhibition “Irreplaceable You”
Yesterday, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Sean Kramer gave a crowd of museumgoers insights into his capstone exhibition titled “Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now.” The exhibition, which is currently on view at the Bowdoin …
BCMA
Talia Traskos-Hart ’25 holds “From Daughters to Mothers: A Study of Reproductive Labor” gallery talk
On Wednesday, Bowdoin students and community members gathered in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) for a gallery talk on a new exhibition titled “From Daughters to Mothers: A Study of Reproductive Labor.” The exhibition, curated by Talia Traskos-Hart …
Lecture
Jorge Leal and Jonathan Leal explain music as archive and resistance in the borderlands
On Wednesday, the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) department hosted the “Every Song an Invitation: Music, Listening and Cultural Inquiry” talk featuring Jorge Leal, professor of history at University of California, Riverside, and Jonathan Leal, professor of English …
Portrait of an Artist
Portrait of an Artist: Miguel Pavón ’25
Often found looking through the lens of his large format camera, Miguel Pavón ’25 is following his passion for filmmaking and photography around the world, from Brunswick to Prague to Iceland.
Although Pavón has crafted a prolific portfolio while at …
Talk of the Quad
A gentle nudge and reflection
On a cold and sunny afternoon during the first full week of spring semester classes, I finally took advantage of the outdoor ice rink on the quad. A friend from my first year and I had packed our skates before …
Talk of the Quad
The only girl in the orchestra
The trombone ranks among a handful of instruments that sound most like the human voice—it represents the adults in “Peanuts,” after all. Cartoons aside, the trombone’s tenor range sits in a natural vocal register, and the trombone’s ability to slide …
At Bowdoin and Beyond
From Bowdoin to the barracks: Francisco Navarro’s journey of public service through American Exceptionalism
In his journey from Bowdoin student to a member of the United States Marine Corps, Francisco Navarro ’19 called upon the texts and teachings of Professor of Government Jean Yarbrough’s American Political Thought course.
From April to December 2024, Navarro …
History
Quash Winchell: An uncovered history
The stories of African Americans in Maine, especially in the 18th century, have not been heavily explored—a fact Special Collections Research Services Librarian Jamey Tanzer is well aware of.
Over the past five years, Tanzer has been exploring the story …