Bulletin 08.2026
Exhibition Highlights
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Events & Programming
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Join us for “Making Art Work: Spindleworks and its Legacy” with Melissa Warak, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of El Paso, Texas and “Curiosity Cabinets to All Species Parade: Flipping the Script on Museums + Disability” with Jonathan Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum.
Talks to be followed by a panel with Anne Collins Goodyear, exhibition Co-Curator and former Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Museum News
Artist Gerald Clarke on his Spring Residency at Bowdoin
Artist Gerald Clarke joined the Bowdoin community this past Spring as the most recent halley k harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence. Claire Stone ’28, communications intern at the BCMA, recently chatted with Clarke to learn more about his experience.
The Walker Art Building as Seen through the Photography of Leon B. Strout
Bowdoin College Library’s Deptartment of Special Collections & Archives recently completed the digitization and online publication of photographer Leon B. Strout’s (1869-1937) entire surviving photographic archives. Of the nearly 6,000 images that make up the Leon B. Strout Collection, nearly 400 document Bowdoin’s campus, including many of and from the Walker Art Building.
Object of the Month: Quillwork Basket by Maime Trudeau Migwans
A recently acquired quillwork basket by Maime Trudeau Migwans expands the BCMA's growing collection of Indigenous art. Made using centuries-old Anishinaabe and Odawa basketmaking traditions, the work features designs developed with Migwans's nephew, celebrated artist Carl Beam, derived from ancient Lake Superior pictographs.
Pictured artwork:
Nancy Scott, 50 (detail), marker on paper, 5 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. © Nancy Scott. Photography by Tim Greenway.
Michael Goldblatt, Alexandra Township, South Africa Polio Vaccination Campaign during Anti-Apartheid Rebellion (detail), 1986, silver gelatin print on paper, 20 x 26 in. Courtesy of David Gordon.
Leon B. Strout, Walker Art Building Under Construction, undated. M247i3709.
Maime Trudeau Migwans (1925-1999), shaman design by Carl Beam (1943-2005), Quillwork Basket, dated February 8, 1990, birch bark; porcupine quills, sweet grass, thread. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Museum Purchase, Jane H. and Charles E. Parker, Jr. Art Acquisition Fund, 2024.31