Art History

Art History at Bowdoin offers courses that examine works of art in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. Students study not only the formal aesthetic values of these works, but also the ways in which they reflect the cultures and the personalities that produced them.

Student Research

Visual Arts
Digital & Computational Studies

Announcement

Art History Spring 2022 Course Offerings

Here are the Art History courses for Spring 2022.

Announcement

Experiencing Medieval Art Today: Using Contemporary Technologies to Present the Past in New Ways

Students in Professor Kate Gerry's ARTH 2710 Building a Virtual Exhibition: A ‘Hands-On’ Experience curated a virtual exhibition using works from the Wyvern Collection of medieval art.

Bowdoin Museum of Art

Upcoming Events

Art Up Close at the BCMA
Art History students, Claire Traum '21 and Lucy Siegel '22, organize and present a monthly webinar highlighting the Bowdoin College Museum of Art collection.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces Public Reopening July 1 with Four New Exhibitions
After more than a year of pandemic-related closure, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will reopen to the public on July 1, 2021, when it will present four new exhibitions.
The Foundationalist: Celebrating the Written Word
Be it fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, all submissions are welcome at The Foundationalist. The undergraduate-run literary magazine has gone from strength to strength since it was founded by Bowdoin students in 2018.