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On February 6, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) opened “Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880,” an exhibition focused on Bowdoin alumni Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne and their influence on the arts. This exhibition, …
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 …
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 …
An island ten miles off the coast of Maine with roughly 50 year-round residents represents centuries of ecological development in both land and art.
“Art, Ecology and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands” opened at the Bowdoin …
Last Friday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) opened its exhibition titled “Hello Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900.” The exhibition explores themes of strangeness and queerness in the form of the portrait.
The exhibition contains …
Last Tuesday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) brought Dr. Karen M. Fraser, professor of art history at the University of San Francisco, to discuss the photography of Ogawa Kazumasa. His photos are currently viewable as part of the …
This past summer, Marianna Zingone ’26 fell down a rabbit hole and landed on a new discovery. While interning at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) as a curatorial assistant, Zingone was tasked with sifting through over 8,000 works …
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) recently acquired two works by the Bolivian Aymara artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes, becoming the first American museum to own one of his paintings. Museum Co-Director Anne Collins Goodyear and Curator Casey Braun hosted …
This summer, artist Abigail DeVille opened her exhibition titled “Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA). The exhibition is a continuation of “Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens,” a body of work originally showcased …
Yesterday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) invited Hong Chun Zhang, a Chinese-born and Kansas-based artist, to the Visual Arts Center to discuss her piece “The Eye of the Tornado.” The work features a spiral of Zhang’s hair drawn …
