Published July 26, 2021 by Bowdoin College Museum of Art

BCMA Hires New Curatorial Assistant

Alongside the re-opening of the BCMA, we are excited to welcome Sabrina Lin ’21 as the new post-baccalaureate curatorial assistant and manager of student programs.

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Sabrina Lin ’21, post-baccalaureate curatorial assistant and manager of student programs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Lin, who graduated from Bowdoin this past May, has already established a strong record of experiences with museums in St. Louis, New York, and Shenzhen, China.  Previously, she served as a Curatorial and Education Assistant at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Summer 2019 and was one of the organizers of the student-curated exhibition Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America, which opened at the Museum on July 1.

In addition to her museum experiences, Lin served as the Managing Editor of The Bowdoin Orient and as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Bowdoin Journal of Art. She is fluent in Chinese and Italian, and proficient in French and German.

“I am thrilled to return to the Museum and continue my work with the collection,” said Lin. “The Museum has been instrumental to my personal and intellectual growth at the College, and I look forward to furthering these connections between our student body and the Museum. I am excited to join the curatorial team as we develop new resources to enrich the teaching with and research of our collection, and to encourage students to interact with art throughout their Bowdoin experience.”

Lin takes over this position from Elizabeth Humphrey ‘14, who departed in July to pursue a Ph.D. in art history at the University of Delaware. Humphrey’s most recent curatorial project for the Museum is There Is a Woman in Every Color, an exhibition that examines the representation of Black women in the United States over the past two centuries. Opening September 16, the show brings together more than forty works of art, objects, and artist books to challenge histories of marginalization and to make visible the presence of women of color in American art history.

We are thrilled to welcome Sabrina to the BCMA.

 

Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank Goodyear
Co-Directors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art