2016 Events

Jan 28. Elise Ansel and Hanetha Vete-Congolo Discussion: "Distant Mirrors: Reflections on Painting"
Jan 28. Museum of Art Winter Open House
Feby 2. Gallery Conversation with scholar Oscar Mokeme
Feby 4. Film Screening and Discussion: William Kentridge's "Drawings for Projection"
Feby 9. Gallery Conversation with Frank Goodyear
Feby 11. Artist Elise Ansel: Drawing Workshop at the Museum
Feby 13. We Love our Members Sale
Feby 13. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Feby 14. We Love Our Members Sale
Feby 16. Gallery Conversation - Historian David Gordon
Feby 17. David Driskell and Johnnetta Cole in Discussion: African Art and the Exhibition 'Earth Matters'
Feby 24. Aimee and Mark Bessire: "Africa Schoolhouse: Shaping Education Literally and Metaphorically in Tanzania"
Feby 25. Gallery Conversation - Historian Jen Scanlon: ''Dissent in 1960s America: The Photography of Ken Thompson"
Mar 1. Gallery Conversation - Lindsay Ceballos and Ellen Tani: "Evolving Approaches to Modernism in Visual Art"
Mar 4. Sebastian Smee: "Manet Slash Degas: Friendship, Rivalry, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Paris"
Mar 5. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Mar 8. Gallery Conversation - Photographer Michael Kolster and Curator Honor Wilkinson
Mar 10. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Mar 30. R. Luke DuBois: "An Artist's View"
Mar 30. Spring Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Apr 5. Gallery Conversation - Erin Johnson: "R. Luke DuBois-Now"
Apr 7. Matthew McLendon: "R. Luke Dubois: On Art and Performance"
Apr 12. Gallery Conversation - Susan Wegner: "Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism"
Apr 14. Titus Kaphar: "Yet Another Fight for Remembrance"
Apr 16. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Apr 19. Gallery Conversation - Crystal Hall: "R. Luke DuBois-Now"
Apr 21. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Apr 28. Jon Ippolito and Richard Rinehart: "Collecting Time"
May 3. Walking Tour with John Cross: Mapping William DeWitt Hyde's 'Offer of the College'
May 5. Members' Evening at the Museum
May 12. Thursday Night Salon: Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions
May 17. Unveiling of the Barry Mills Presidential Portrait
Jun 25. Byron Kim - Keynote Program: 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today'
Jun 25. Opening Reception: 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today'
Jun 30. Bowdoin International Music Festival Performance: Music at the Museum
Jul 2. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Jul 7. Anne Collins Goodyear - Gallery Conversation: 'Contemporary Art and Identity'
Jul 12. Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo - Gallery Conversation: 'Unconventional Portraiture in the 1960s'
Jul 19. Frank Mauceri - Gallery Conversation: 'R. Luke DuBois-Now'
Jul 21. Bowdoin International Music Festival Performance: Music at the Museum
Aug 4. Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen: "Travels with Hattie & Eleanor: Researching Biography with Barbara Cooney"
Aug 6. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art!
Aug 12. Night at the Museum: 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today'
Aug 16. Jonathan Frederick Walz - Gallery Conversation: "Portraiture Abstraction"
Sep 6. Sarah Greenough: "Passing into the World as Abstractions: Georgia O'Keeffe's Painted Portraits"
Sep 9. Brunswick ArtWalk | Museum of Art
Sep 10. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
Sep 13. Mary Hart - Gallery Conversation: "Deconstructing the Portrait: A Painter's View"
Sep 15. Sarah Kennel: "Robert Frank: Nobody's Home"
Sep 15. Fall Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Sep 20. Curator Discussion: "John Copley's Portrait of Elizabeth Bowdoin: Art, Enlightenment, and Patronage in New England"
Sep 22. Mike Kolster - Thursday Night Salon: "Robert Frank: Sideways"
Sep 25. Peter Jaszi - Workshop: "Fair Use in the Visual Arts and Beyond"
Oct 5. L.J. Roberts: "Queer Strategies, Queer Tactics"
Oct 12. Richard Saunders '70: "Some Additional Observations on Identity in American Art"
Oct 13. Music at the Museum with George Lopez
Oct 13. Performance: Music at the Museum with George Lopez
Oct 14. Tour, Discussion, and Reception: "Echoes of Ancient Religions in Bowdoin Collections"
Oct 19. Hasan Elahi: "The New Normal"
Oct 25. Laura Sprague and Joachim Homann - Gallery Conversation: "Adornment, Authority, and Alterity in Nineteenth-Century Art"
Oct 27. New England Premiere! Documentary Film Screening and Discussion: "Don't Blink-Robert Frank"
Oct 29. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
Nov 1. Honor Wilkinson - Gallery Conversation: "The Senses of Performance"
Nov 9. Steff Chavez '17 and Frank Goodyear - Gallery Conversation: "Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Life"
Nov 10. Film screening and Conversation: "Foreigners Out!: Schlingensief's Container"
Nov 15. Adi Nes - Spindel Lecture: "Issues of Identity"
Nov 16. Gallery Conversation with Artist Adi Nes
Nov 19. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
Nov 29. Jens Daehner: "Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculptures of the Hellenistic World"
Nov 30. Members' Preview Day: The Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop
Dec 6. Gallery Conversation: "Art and Resolution: The Twentieth Century Comes Into View"
Dec 7. Members' Evening at the Museum of Art
Dec 8. Film Screening and Conversation: "The Temptation of Doctor Antonio" by Federico Fellini
Dec 14. Gallery Conversation: "Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Life"
Dec 15. Music at the Museum with George Lopez
Dec 15. Music at the Museum with George Lopez