Developed by Andrew Tran '26, Summer 2023 Education and Shop Assistant, this podcast series explores the lives of different staff … [Read More...]
BCMA Labs is an online showcase for original student research and creative projects that engage the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s (BMCA) collections and resources. Exclusively featuring digital and creative content made by Bowdoin students, BCMA Labs is made “for students, by students” to highlight exciting projects like 3d models, physical and virtual exhibitions, podcasts, short films, and original artworks.
Looking Closer: A Collection Without Labels
Filed Under: Intern Projects, Online Features Tagged With: Museum Education
Created by Summer Education and Shop Assistant, Gavin Sychterz ’25, Looking Closer is designed to introduce a new way to explore … [Read More...]
Composer’s Concert at the Museum
Filed Under: Intern Projects, Online Features Tagged With: Music
Summer Education Intern, Tessa Frank '23, compiles interviews, photo and video documentations for Bowdoin International Music … [Read More...]
Innovation and Resilience Across Three Generations of Wabanaki Basket-Making
Filed Under: Student Exhibitions at the Museum, Virtual Exhibitions Tagged With: Indigenous Art, Wabanaki art
Curated by Amanda Cassano ’22, Sunshine Eaton ’22, and Shandiin Largo ’23, members of the Native American Students Association at … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | Indian and Islamic Painting from the Museum’s Collection
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: South Asian Art, Video
Episode 10: "Indian and Islamic Painting from the Museum’s Collection" with Bronwen Gulkis. In this tenth installment of "Art … [Read More...]
Experiencing Medieval Art Today: Using Contemporary Technologies to Present the Past in New Ways
Filed Under: Online Features, Virtual Exhibitions Tagged With: Medieval, Technology
A virtual exhibition curated by students in the art history class Building a Virtual Exhibition: A ‘Hands-On’ Experience (ARTH … [Read More...]
Summer 2021 Intern Presentations
Filed Under: Intern Projects Tagged With: Video
Summer interns at the BCMA discuss their internship experience this summer and share their personal highlights from working at the … [Read More...]
Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation in the teaching of Visual Arts
Filed Under: Online Features Tagged With: Africana Studies, Honors Project
Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation in the teaching of Visual Arts – Destiny A. Kearney '20 – Africana Studies 4051 – … [Read More...]
Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America
Filed Under: Student Exhibitions at the Museum Tagged With: American Art
Creeping Pavement explores artists’ changing attitudes toward urban spaces over the course of the late nineteenth to twentieth … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | We Never See Anything Clearly: William Henry Hunt’s “Fungi”
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: European Art, Video
Episode 8: "We Never See Anything Clearly: William Henry Hunt’s Fungi" with Pamela Fletcher. Enjoy this eighth episode in this … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | Zig Jackson
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: American Art, Photography
Episode 7: "Zig Jackson" with Frank Goodyear. The seventh episode in our series of bite-sized conversations aimed at connecting … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: contemporary art, Social Action, Video
Episode 6: "32 Questions for DeRay McKesson" with Anne Collins Goodyear. The sixth episode in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | The Assyrian Reliefs and Repatriation
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: Classics, Video
Episode 5: "The Assyrian Reliefs and Repatriation" with Lucy Siegel ’22 Lucy Siegel ’22 introduces the subject of the … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | Wayne Thiebaud and California Art
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: American Art, Video
Episode 4: "Wayne Thiebaud and California Art" with Claire Traum '21. The fourth episode in a series of bite-sized … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | Edward Perry Warren and Antiquities at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: Classics, Medieval, Video
Episode 3: "Edward Perry Warren and Antiquities at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art" with Brooke Wrubel ’21. The third in a … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | The Wyvern Collection
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: Medieval, Video
Episode 2: "The Wyvern Collection" with Professor Kathryn Gerry. Kathryn Gerry, visiting assistant professor of art history, … [Read More...]
Art Up Close | Protest Art and Black Lives Matter
Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: Social Action, Video
Episode 1: "Protest Art and Black Lives Matter" with Elizabeth Humphrey and Sean Burrus. The first in a series of bite-sized … [Read More...]
Spectacle in Antiquity & Beyond
Filed Under: Online Features, Virtual Exhibitions Tagged With: Classics
Spectacle in Antiquity and Beyond was co-curated by students enrolled in “ARCH 3320: Spectacle in Antiquity & Beyond,” during … [Read More...]
The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa
Filed Under: Student Exhibitions at the Museum, Virtual Exhibitions Tagged With: African art, contemporary art, Social Action
The Presence of the Past was co-curated by students enrolled in “The Powers of Central African Art” during fall 2019, under the … [Read More...]
Archaeology Class Uses High-Tech Objects to Understand Ancient Ones
Filed Under: Student Projects Tagged With: Technology
In the Spring of 2019, students in Descendents of the Sun: The Inca and Their Ancestors worked with Professor Lauren Kohut to make … [Read More...]
Winslow Homer: The Man Himself
Filed Under: Intern Projects, Online Features Tagged With: American Art, Video
As Special Projects Intern at BCMA, Sebastian Gilligan-Kim '19 conducted research and produced this short documentary. The project … [Read More...]
Reading Room: Experiments in Collaborative Dialogue and Archival Practice in the Arts
Filed Under: Student Exhibitions at the Museum, Student Projects Tagged With: Social Action
Reading Room is a material and immaterial archive of texts, books, and writings in response to the question: “How can art act as a … [Read More...]