As the 2015-2016 academic year commences, we are thrilled to welcome old friends and new faces to the Museum. Please join us for the different exhibitions and programs happening at the Museum this fall. In September, we are especially excited about looking at and thinking further about the night, the theme of the Museum's critically-acclaimed exhibition, Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960. See below for a full list of public programs, including lectures by Art Institute of Chicago curator Elizabeth Siegel, Stanford art historian Alexander Nemerov, and Smithsonian curator Eleanor Harvey. We are also looking forward to visits by three distinguished artists - Lois Dodd, Richard Bosman, and Michel Auder - each of whom will talk about the night as a source of creative inspiration.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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On view through October 18, 2015
This is the first major museum survey dedicated to scenes of the night in American art from 1860, an era not yet illuminated by electricity, to 1960 and the beginning of the Space Age.
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On view through September 27, 2015
A Mind of Winter includes photographs created at various sites in Maine during the winter of 2014-2015.
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Nightfall is a universal experience, an inevitable marker of time, yet constantly changing. What does it mean to paint it? Nationally-renowned artist Lois Dodd (born 1927) will speak on this topic in conjunction with Night Vision on September 3.
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On August 12th BCMA Co-Directors Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank H. Goodyear III enjoyed welcoming National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu, and Maine Arts Commission Executive Director Julie Richard to the Museum.
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BCMA is pleased to announce three major digital initiatives: placing the collection on-line for teaching and research; sharing historic photographs of the Museum; and developing an on-line scholarly catalogue.
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This summer, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art enjoyed welcoming new colleagues to its ranks, and is pleased to welcome back another.
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Join the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We look forward to seeing you at the Museum this fall and hope you will consider becoming a member. For more information about membership, please contact Caroline Baljon, at 207-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always free and open the public. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a diverse community of students and faculty, If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support by joining today!
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calendar
Conversation with Lois Dodd
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
more"Making Photography New: Abelardo Morell and the Current Trends in Photography" by Elizabeth Siegel
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium
more "Winslow Homer's Dream" by Alexander Nemerov
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium
moreGallery Conversation with Linda Docherty: Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960
12:00 noon
Museum of Art
more September 17 "Darkness Visible" by Eleanor Harvey
4:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium
moreSeptember 21"Here Comes the Night: Vincent Katz and Richard Bosman in Conversation"
4:30 p.m.
Beam Classroom
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September 24 "An Evening with Filmmaker Michel Auder"
4:30 p.m.
September 26 Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Museum of Art
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Gallery Conversation with Joachim Homann: Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960
12:00 noon
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Discover more events on the BCMA calendar
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Banner image: Flirting on the Sea-Shore, (detail) 1874, wood engraving by Winslow Homer.
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