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Premiere of Oratorio by Bowdoin’s Delmar Small

The Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra recently performed the world premiere of the oratorio “As It Began to Dawn,” by Bowdoin Music Department staff member Delmar Small.

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Prof. Alicia Eggert Featured on TED Blog

Alicia Eggert, assistant professor of art at Bowdoin, has just been featured in an interview on the TED Blog.

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Art Museum Does Kirkeby Fans 'Great Service' (Boston Globe)

Sebastian Smee writes in the Boston Globe that the current Per Kirkeby show in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art contains big paintings with "a restless, unsettling aura" and a "peculiar charge."

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Bowdoin Faculty Draw Connections Between Art and Science In April 21 Gallery Talk

A trio of Bowdoin math and science professors will be explaining how color, pattern, and scale are scientific tools as well as artistic ones in a 2:00 PM gallery talk, “Sense of Scale, Measure By Color: Art, Science, and Mathematics of Planet Earth," at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on April 21.

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Poet L.S. Asekoff '61 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

L.S. Asekoff ’61, a professor of English at Brooklyn College, has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.

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Bowdoin’s vibrant quadrangle houses world-class museums and performance venues all within a five-minute walk.

Recital HallPickard Theater and Wish Theater, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Studzinski Recital Hall, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hawthorne Longfellow Library.