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Art / The Fine Art of Printmaking is Etched in Students' Memories

The Fine Art of PrintmakingMohney—and 17 other students in Carrie Scanga's Printmaking I class—actually helped the artist print the etching during a one-week artist residency at Bowdoin by Arai, sponsored by the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project.

Music / Bowdoin's Afro-Colombian Marimba Band One-of-a-Kind

Afro-Columbian Marimba BandYou won't find many traditional marimba bands outside of Colombia. These spirited, rhythmic bands derive from often obscure, rural communities along Colombia's Pacific coast. They are the music of descendents of African slaves.

Dance / Josh Magno '11 Dances His Way to Watson Fellowship

Josh Mango DanceJosh Magno '11 is one of only 40 students across the country selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to pursue what the Watson Foundation calls "their unique passion or dream" for a year of independent exploration and travel outside the U.S.

Art / Alicia Eggert Brings Kinetic Energy To Art Making

Alicia Eggert KineticMany artists carve a niche in one discipline—painting, say, or sculpture, or multimedia—then branch into other mediums. Bowdoin's newest visual arts faculty member, Alicia Eggert, defies such classification.

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.

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To be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature a familiar acquaintance, and Art an intimate friend
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Fall 2011 Arts and Culture Calendar
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Rescheduled: 'Museum Pieces' Welcomes Spring Monday, May 7

Class projects, independent student work, and student clubs will all be featured on the program of festive music and dance.

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Art Critic Donald Kuspit to Lecture May 7

As Kuspit describes, since the 19th century serious critical understanding of the arts has been either "mathematical" or "poetic," to use Baudelaire's distinction, if sometimes conflating them.

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Chorus, Mozart Mentors Orchestra Premiere Jenkins' Requiem May 3-4

The theme of the concert is "Death and Heaven." In addition to the Jenkins Requiem the Chorus will perform four spirituals arranged by William Dawson about preparing to go to heaven or imagining what it will be like.

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Barbara Stafford to Deliver Museum of Art Lecture May 3

Stafford's work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era.

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Clifford Orwin to Lecture on Genesis 18-19 May 7

Orwin is a professor of political science, classics, and Jewish studies and director of the Program in Political Philosophy and International Affairs at the University of Toronto.

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Community Screening of 'American Teacher' Apr. 26

The feature-length documentary chronicles the stories of four teachers living and working in disparate urban and rural areas of the country.

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'Lullaby' by Lily Bo Shapiro '12 Apr. 25-26

This original dance theater piece blends humor, tenderness, and cruelty in an exploration of the games we play as children and adults, and the ways in which those games shape who we are.

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