Visiting Artists

The Bowdoin community has had a longstanding dialogue with different kinds of artists from around the world. This cultural connection allows student to interact with many different kinds of ideas, techniques, and approaches in an intimate setting. There is nothing like learning printmaking directly from a master printmaker, collaborating with a graphic novelist to make a comic book, or hearing what is happening in far corners of the artworld on a firsthand basis.

Bowdoin has an ongoing commitment to bringing the highest caliber to campus through Lehman Lectures, a Visiting Artist Fund, a general college Lectures and Concerts series and visiting artists to the campus studios.

Below is a selected list of recent visits to the campus that. Some of them include links to more information about the specific programs.

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Past Highlights

Deke Weaver: "The Ghosts of Prague" An Evening of Solo Performance Pieces and Videos by Writer-Performer and Spoken Word Artist Deke Weaver. In addition to his public performance, Weaver conducted a two-day performance art workshop with students in the department. more »

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Jamey Morrill: "Strip Mining the Profound: An Artist's Slide Lecture" 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. more »

sturm-visitingJames Sturm: "Creating and Appreciating COMICS!"
During the visiting artist workshop with James Sturm (His graphic novel The Golem's Mighty Swing was named "Best Comic of 2001" by Time Magazine.), students and faculty collaborated to create a comic book. The book was structured around a series of short texts which were linked by drawn narratives. The resulting zine reads as a kind of exquisite corpse where each participants page links to another to create a continuous and unexpected story.
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Julie Heffernan : "Heff's World: An Artist's Talk"
2004 Lehman Lecture
"I've always been interested in work that looks hard at human nature. I want the kind of psychological space that feels seductive, or Baroque in the sense of a space that you enter into." Her visit to Bowdoin included a slide lecture as well as a visit to Professor Jim Mullen's Advanced Studies class for a visiting artist critique of student work. more »

damario-visitingJulia D'Amario: "A Printer's Perspective"
2004 Lehman Lecture
Julia D'Amario is a Master Printer currently working at Pace Editions, Inc. in New York City. She has collaborated with Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Jim Dine, and many other well-known contemporary artists. Her visit to Bowdoin included a lecture and slide show detailing the inner-workings of a Print Shop, as well as intensive work with Printmaking students, and a viewing of Prints from Pace Editions. more »

Chris Doyle: Artist, Public Art Projects. Chris Doyle lives and works in Brooklyn. Doyle has completed numerous public art projects, many in and around New York City. He has worked in Grand Central Station, Creative Time's Brooklyn Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge and at the stairs to the Williamsburg Bridge with Commutable, a project of the Public Art Fund. His work has been presented by Jessica Murray Projects, NYC, P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Public Art Fund and Creative Time (New York). He has been awarded fellowships by The New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony. He received his MA in Architecture from Harvard University.

Selected Recent Visiting Artists and Speakers

Bernadette Searle
Peter Schjeldahl
Chaz-Maviyane-Davis
Carl Palazzolo
Robert Irwin
Jake Berthot
Faith Ringgold
Vincent Katz
Deke Weaver
Elise Ansel
Grace DeGennaro
Brett Bigbee
Lisa Bossi
Steve Cayard
Bruce Brown
Rebecca Goodale
Steven Albert
Andrea Sulzer
Barak Olins
Guy Saldanha
Ann Lofquist
Tom Krumpak
Lennart Anderson
John Moore
Anne Minich
Gideon Bok
Anne Harris
Johnnie Ross
Richard Francis
Eve Mansdorf
Frank Gohlke
Sean Foley
Katherine Bradford