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2004-2005
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Lehman Lecture
Lennart Anderson, painter
4:00 PM, Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Lennart Anderson's capability as a figurative artist is well documented by major books, grants, and exhibitions. His perceptual portraits, landscapes and still life are uniquely beautiful. He also has an important reputation and respect as a figure painter in the classical tradition. He's received the Prix de Rome, exhibited in numerous shows for decades, and is included in prestigious books, such as "Post-Modernism" (Jencks) and "The Art of the Real." He is also greatly respected as a teacher and many of his students have become respected artists. He has had a long-term impact on the Bowdoin Art Department.
Water/In Motion at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Water/In Motion is the first "exhibition" organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art that features, exclusively, the moving image. Contemporary artists Leighton Pierce, Janine Antoni, and Janaina Tschape all explore the representation of water, a traditional artistic subject matter, but do so in these works in varied and unexpected ways.
Leighton Pierce, The Edge of Air
Each of the artists' works will be projected for one week on the north exterior wall of the Museum (Visual Arts Center side) from 8:00 - 11:00 at night.
April 1 - 7, 2005: Leighton Pierce, The Edge of Air
April 8 - 14, 2005: Janine Antoni, Touch
April 15 - 22, 2005: Janaina Tschape, Untitled (Scream)
Ongoing:
Are you curious about what the Museum of Art will look like after renovation? Please come and see the architectural model currently on view in the Museum's Rotunda.
In addition to the model (complete with lion statues), three panels of drawings, plans and computer generated images colorfully illustrate the new freestanding glass and metal entrance 
pavilion, the addition with its large window overlooking Park Row and the new galleries and public spaces.
Museum of Art Hours are still:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm & Sunday 2 - 5 pm
Posted March 10, 2005
Print Sale - December 10th, 2004
The "Naked" Exhibition'
June Fitzpatrick Gallery Portland, ME
November 2004
a group show of works on paper by artists from Maine and New York organized by Katherine Bradford. Including works by Bowdoin professors and alumni Tom Cornell, Kyle Durrie, Cassie Jones and Mark Wethli.
Tuesday October 26, 2004, 7:30
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Jim Dow is a well-known photographer whose work explores America through the language of architecture. He has documented artifacts of a vanishing era including small-town movie theaters, billiard halls, diners, masonic lodges, barber shops, dance halls, and baseball parks. For examples of his work, check out rosegallery.net/galleryArtists/ »
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
7:30, Kresge Auditorium:
"Journey to Black Mountain"
Noted poet, translator, critic, and curator Vincent Katz will be a giving a talk entitled "Journey to Black Mountain" on Wednesday, October 27th, at 7:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium in the Visual Arts Center at Bowdoin College.
The subject of Katz' lecture is the fabled Black Mountain College, a school for the arts which operated from 1933 to 1956 and which has shaped much of American art and art education since that time.
Black Mountain's teachers--Josef Albers, Willem DeKooning, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, and Roger Sessions, among others--were the most illustrious and influential of their generation. The students who attended Black Mountain College--Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and an impressive list of others--went on to shape the dominant trends in the art, music, and literature of our time.
Katz, who edited and contributed the title essay to "Black Mounatin College: Experiment in Art" (The MIT Press, 2003), will be discussing the importance of Black Mountain in the development of Modernist ideas in American art as well as his personal involvement with Black Mountain College. His lecture will also address how the philosophy of the institution affected all the arts at Black Mountain, and what lessons may be drawn from that philosophy today.
Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, editor, writer, and curator. His books of poetry include "A Tremor in the Morning" (1986), "Boulevard Transportation" (1997) and "Understanding Objects" (1999).
His most recent books include artist's monographs "Red Grooms" (2000) and "Rudy Burckhart" (2004), and his translation of "The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius" (2004).
The Importance of the Arts
Baccalaureate Address: Pres. Barry Mills. May 28, 2004
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
"Strip Mining the Profound: An Artist's Slide Lecture by Sculptor Jamey Morrill"
Jamey Morrill '92 is a sculptor who received his MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2002. In addition to his public lecture, Jamey met with students enrolled in Art 350, Advanced Studies in Visual Art, as a guest critic.
You can see some of his work at: naoprojectgallery.info/media/artists/morrill/shell2.htm?2
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
"The Ghosts of Prague" An Evening of Solo Performance Pieces and Videos by Writer-Performer and Spoken Word Artist Deke Weaver '85
Deke Weaver '85 received his MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1988. In addition to his public performance, Weaver conducted a two-day performance art workshop with students in the department.
You can learn more about him at: dekeweaver.com »