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Art Up Close | 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson

Episode 6: “32 Questions for DeRay McKesson” with Anne Collins Goodyear.Anne Collins Goodyear discusses 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson.

The sixth episode in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art series of bite-sized conversations aimed at connecting students and members of the Bowdoin community with works in the Museum of Art’s collection. In this episode Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director, discusses 32 Questions for DeRay McKesson, a 2016 time-based media portrait of the activist by artist R. Luke DuBois. Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Recorded on February 17, 2021.

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

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

The Presence of the Past was co-curated by students enrolled in “The Powers of Central African Art” during fall 2019, under the direction of David Gordon, Professor of History, and Allison J. Martino, BCMA Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow.

Hervé Youmbi, Two-Faced (Double Visage), Faces of Mask series, artist label, 2015-2017
Hervé Youmbi, “Two-Faced (Double Visage), Faces of Mask” series, 2015-2017, mixed media (plastic, animal fur, hair, cowrie shells, beads), paper, shipping crate, photograph, film, Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund. 2019.26.a.-.d

This online exhibition shares the work of Bowdoin students and faculty who have worked with staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to curate an exhibition that will also be on view in the galleries. Together, this project highlights the important role of academic art museums to foster learning, research, and creativity among students. Students in the course “The Powers of Central African Art,” taught by professor David Gordon in the History department, developed this exhibition as part of a class project. The Museum’s Zuckert Seminar Room provided a space for holding class visits, in which students studied the objects included in this exhibition over the course of the semester.

This online exhibition presents the culmination of these efforts, and is structured to reflect the exhibition’s conceptual development into four thematic and geographic sections—Power Objecs: Central Africa; Representations of Womanhood: West Africa; Projecting Power: Akan Society; and Unpacking African Art: Beyond Africa. Within each section of the online exhibition, we share an introduction to that area and short texts about the included artworks prepared by the students.

Site: https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/education/curriculum-based-exhibits/presence-of-the-past/

Filed Under: Student Exhibitions at the Museum, Virtual Exhibitions Tagged With: African art, contemporary art, Social Action

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