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Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation In The Teaching Of Visual Arts, Destiny Arianna Kearney

Honors Projects

My honors thesis argues that at Bowdoin College, failure to provide Culturally Relevant Teaching in art studio courses dismisses the representation of Blackness in the Visual Arts Department. Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT) recognizes the importance of all students' cultural experiences in different aspects of learning. It allows for equitable access to education for students of diverse backgrounds. CRT is crucial to reconstructing Art Education to represent diverse student bodies. My position as a Black-Indigenous artist enables me to reflect on the intersection of these frameworks and to build upon them in order to highlight the need for pedagogical practice in …

Site, Power, And Experience: Three Contemporary Installation Works On Global Mobility, Xiyin Sabrina Lin

Honors Projects

This Honors Project investigates the themes of immigration, space, and mobility through the lens of contemporary installation art. It addresses a brief history of global contemporary art, arguing that art of the past two decades has been shaped by preoccupations with and tensions surrounding space. Using the works of Yanagi Yukinori, Alfredo Jaar, and Doris Salcedo as case studies, the essay analyzes how artists use the medium of installation to address institutional history, contemporary geopolitics, as well as individual and collective experience. It interrogates the different aspects of installation art, including temporality, site-specificity, and the use of language, to demonstrate …

Third-Party Politics: Britain, France, And America In An Age Of Revolution, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Katherine Finnegan

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"... accompanies an exhibition ... on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from April 9 through July 12, 2009"--P. [4] of cover

"This exhibition originated as a research project for an independent study in history on "British society and culture in the long eighteenth century." Katherine Finnegan, Bowdoin College Class of 2009, and Visiting Instructor in History Aaron Windel worked closely with Diana Tuite, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Museum"--P. [4] of cover

Ink Tales: Family Guide, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

A family guide and activity book to accompany the joint exhibition of the same title held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Feb. 3-May 10, 2009 and the Colby College Museum of Art, Jan.22-Mar. 8, 2009.

Concept and initial design by Bowdoin College students Gea Ermotti, Anna Kosovsky, Erica McLeod, and Eleanor Meyer. Production and final design by Colby College student Alyssa Lee.