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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 …

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 …

Female Artists And The Spanish Pavilion In The International Exhibition In 1937, Carmen Gaitán Salinas

Dissidences

This article aims to elucidate why the majority of Spanish female artists did not participate in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition in 1937. Only two of them took part in this event. However, there were a lot of female artists in that period. In fact, some artists had a promising career, but it seems that they did not dare to be involved in this exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion. In some cases, the no participation of some female artists could have been a simple coincidence, although it should be pointed out that there could be other reasons related …

Breakthrough: Work By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Sarah Montross, Shu-Chin Tsui, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"This brochure accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, from September 27 through December 22, 2013"--Back of cover flap

Lesley Vance, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Diana K. Tuite

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held April 12-July 1, 2012, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.

Includes essay "Conspiring forms" by Diana Tuite (p. 2-3)

Parterre: An Installation By Lauren Fensterstock, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from Oct. 3, 2008 through Jan.11, 2009.

Essay by Alison Ferris.

Andrea Sulzer: After Nature, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Katy Kline

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

" ... accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 17 through August 27, 2008"--P. 16

Essay by Katy Kline.

Four Seasons In Maine: Lois Dodd's Small Plein-Air Paintings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"Accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, from June 22 through September 5, 2004"--P. 9

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition catalog: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Sept. 25-Dec. 7, 2003; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Mo.), Mar. 5-May 23, 2004; Austin (Texas) Museum of Art, Sept. 11-Nov. 28, 2004

Includes essays by Tom Gunning and Pamela Thurschwell.

Edges Of The World: Photographs By Thomas Joshua Cooper, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"Brochure accompanies an exhibition of the same name ... from June 18 through September 1, 2002."

Brutal Beauty: Paintings By Walton Ford, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Franklin Burroughs

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"Catalog accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, September 29-December 10, 2000"--P. 2

Littoral Abstractions: Drawings By Emily Nelligan, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Includes an essay by the curator Allison Ferris.

Certain Uncertainties: Chaos And The Human Experience, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Justin G. Schuetz

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Accompanies an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from April 17 through June 2, 1996.

"This brochure is published with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."--Colophon

Bowdoin Photographers: Liberal Arts Lens, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Lucy L. Bowditch

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"Accompanies an exhibition ... at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from September 22 through November 26, 1995"--P. [2]

Martha Diamond, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition held at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, January 29 - March 24, 1988

Tokyo Nightviews, Bowdoin College Museum Of Art, Yvonne Jacquette

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalogue of an exhibition held Apr. 5-May 3, 1986, at Brooke Alexander, New York, and June 27-Aug. 24, 1986, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

Elizabeth Peak: Prints And Drawings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition held March 18-April 25, 1982 at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Catalog by Alan Shestack.

Four Artists, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition catalogue from January 22-March 7, 1982.

Robert Birmelin: Recent Paintings, Maine And New York, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Mar. 14 to May 25, 1980.

Spirit Of The New Landscape, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held Jan. 20-Mar. 12, 1978 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Textures Of Our Earth: Bayetage Tapestries By Nancy Hemenway: 1972-1977, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Benjamin Forgery

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; participating museums: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Aug. 5-Sept. 25, 1977; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 18-Nov. 20, 1977; Seattle Art Museum, May 18-June 25, 1978; Textile Museum, Sept. 15-Oct. 28, 1978.

Joseph Nicoletti: Paintings And Drawings, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of the exhibition held Jan. 21-Feb. 27, 1977.

Recent Work Of David Driskell: Paintings And Prints, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Exhibition held August 17-September 20, 1973 in The Boyd Art Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.

Photographs: John Mckee, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

"Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, April 6-May 27, 1984"--T.p. verso