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2026
04/29.
Spindleworks Art Center Recognizes Fifty Years of Art Making, Supporting Artists with Disabilities, with Exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
This summer, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present "Celebrating Independence! Fifty Years of Spindleworks, 1976–2026," an exhibition honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Spindleworks Art Center, a nationally recognized progressive art studio based in Brunswick, with a sister location in Gardiner. [more]
04/03.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art will Celebrate America’s 250th with Exhibition Exploring Decades of American Stories through Art.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence, this summer the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present "USA @ 250," a major exhibition that examines 250 years of American history through art. [more]
2025
11/03.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Will Present Landmark Josefina Auslender Retrospective and Hung Liu’s "Happy and Gay".
This winter, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present two exhibitions, "Auslender: Drawing Myself Free" and "Hung Liu: Happy and Gay," exploring the power of art to interrogate history, memory, and personal experience—all filtered through the lens of immigration. [more]
09/10.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces Major Exhibition and Long-Term Loan Partnership with Wyvern Collection.
This fall, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents “Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections,” the first in a series of rotating exhibitions based on the Museum’s new partnership with the prestigious, London-based Wyvern Collection. [more]
06/04.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces New Curatorial Fellow and Artist-in-Residence Appointments.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) announces the appointment of Anne Strachan Cross as the Museum’s next Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, and Gerald Clarke as the halley k harrisburg ‘90 and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence for the upcoming academic year. [more]
04/16.
"East-Northeast: Charting Moments in Maine" Presents Four Different Exhibitions of Maine-Focused Artists in Summer 2025.
New exhibitions include the first museum show of a body of work by Gordon Parks, recent paintings by painter Ann Craven, a long unseen series by photographer John McKee, and films by photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt. [more]
02/06.
‘Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880’ Explores the Relationship Between Literary Works and the Arts.
The exhibition explores how Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow influenced American visual culture between 1840 and 1880. [more]
01/16.
'Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now' Addresses Themes Evoking Our Shared Humanity at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
'Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now' explores the complexities of human empathy in a world that can seem dominated by acts of violence and dehumanizing rhetoric. [more]
2024
09/26.
More Than 230 Photographs Donated to Bowdoin College Museum of Art by David and Gail Mixer.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has received a major gift of 238 works of global photography from the 1840s to the 2000s. [more]
07/25.
Upcoming Exhibition About Monhegan Island Explores Connections Between Art and Environmental Resilience.
In December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), in collaboration with the Monhegan Museum of Art and History, will present an exhibition that looks anew at the history of Monhegan Island, Maine. [more]
02/06.
Major Painting by Alejandro Mario Yllanes Acquired by Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has acquired Estaño Maldito (Cursed Tin) (1937) [more]
2023
09/27.
Artist’s Explorations of Asian-American Identity.
The groundbreaking new exhibition “Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures” weaves together 30 artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, created by more than twenty artists who self-identify as Asian American. [more]
09/27.
Exploring Jim Dine’s Portrait Drawings.
This December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open “Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest,” an exhibition featuring over 60 of the artist’s exceptional portrait-drawings, created over the past six and a half decades. [more]
05/10.
People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965 to Open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art This Summer.
Exploring how humans witness each other, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and host an expansive selection of photographs in a new exhibition titled People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965. [more]
03/30.
Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Noted 19th Century Sculptor Anne Whitney, Acquired by Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) announced today that it has acquired an 1893 plaster work by sculptor Anne Whitney (1821–1915) of the noted author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). [more]
02/01.
First Major Exhibition of the Art of Mina Loy to Open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and present Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most challenging poets of the twentieth century. [more]