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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.

Bowdoin international music festival musicians at the BCMA

Composer’s Concert at the Museum

September 1, 2022 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

February 1, 2022 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...]

Professor Gulkis discusses Indian Painting from the BCMA collection

Art Up Close | Indian and Islamic Painting from the Museum’s Collection

December 1, 2021 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...]

Miniature Altar of St. Catherine

Experiencing Medieval Art Today: Using Contemporary Technologies to Present the Past in New Ways

August 27, 2021 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

August 11, 2021 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

Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation in the teaching of Visual Arts

July 28, 2021 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...]

Sabrina Lin discusses Doris Salcedo

Art Up Close | Site, Power, and Experience: Contemporary Installation Art and Global Mobility

May 5, 2021 Filed Under: Art Up Close (Video Series) Tagged With: contemporary art, Social Action, Video

Episode 9: "Site, Power, and Experience: Contemporary Installation Art and Global Mobility" with Sabrina Lin '21. In this … [Read More...]

creeping-pavement installation view

Creeping Pavement: Depictions of an Urbanizing America

April 9, 2021 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...]

Pamela Fletcher discusses William Henry Hunt's painting.

Art Up Close | We Never See Anything Clearly: William Henry Hunt’s “Fungi”

March 10, 2021 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...]

Frank Goodyear discusses the work of Zig Jackson

Art Up Close | Zig Jackson

February 24, 2021 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...]

Anne Collins Goodyear discusses 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson.

Art Up Close | 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson

February 17, 2021 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...]

Lucy Siegel '22 discussed the Assyrian reliefs

Art Up Close | The Assyrian Reliefs and Repatriation

December 9, 2020 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...]

Claire Traum discusses Wayne Thiebaud

Art Up Close | Wayne Thiebaud and California Art

November 18, 2020 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...]

Brooke Wrubel discusses the Warren collection.

Art Up Close | Edward Perry Warren and Antiquities at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

October 28, 2020 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 with Kate Gerry

Art Up Close | The Wyvern Collection

September 30, 2020 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...]

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Art Up Close | Protest Art and Black Lives Matter

September 29, 2020 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...]

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Spectacle in Antiquity & Beyond

May 29, 2020 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...]

"Two-Faced (Double Visage) Faces of Mask series," 2015-2017, photograph, by Hervé Youmbi,

The Presence of the Past: Art from Central and West Africa

April 14, 2020 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...]

Student conducting photogrammetry

Archaeology Class Uses High-Tech Objects to Understand Ancient Ones

November 22, 2019 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...]

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Winslow Homer: The Man Himself

March 3, 2019 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

Reading Room: Experiments in Collaborative Dialogue and Archival Practice in the Arts

March 29, 2018 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...]

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  • Student Projects (21)
    • Art Up Close (Video Series) (10)
    • Intern Projects (3)
    • Online Features (5)
    • Student Exhibitions at the Museum (4)
    • Virtual Exhibitions (4)

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