Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State
, Becker GalleryThe exhibition explores female personifications of the nation state from antiquity through the Enlightenment to today.
Exhibitions
Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time
, Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Rotunda, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher GalleryWith a humanizing lens, artist Abigail DeVille explores how marginalized communities persevere through their search for renewal and happiness as they migrate to new places that become sanctuaries.
Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship
, Zuckert Seminar RoomThe exhibition brings together several hundred of Burckhardt’s small drawings to create an immersive environment of connected words, shapes, and color.
Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection
, Walker GalleryThis exhibition draws from artworks at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient Italy, and their wider legacy.
Threads: Artists Weave their Worlds
, Shaw Ruddock GalleryThis exhibition brings together work by contemporary artists who incorporate weaving, sewing, quilting, and fabric to explore ideas about gender, identity, memory, and cross-cultural encounters.
Currents: Art Since 1875
, Boyd Gallery"Currents: Art Since 1875" tells new stories, asks provocative questions, and challenges assumptions about the human experience through works of twentieth and twenty-first century art.
Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875
, Bowdoin GalleryThis exhibition of art in the Atlantic World considers empire-building across Europe, North America, and their colonies, and how it shaped interconnected global networks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.