A Bowdoin Class Responds to Hurricane Maria, and Cross-Cultural Learning Follows
Nadia Celis, an associate professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Bowdoin, saw her action as a way to “model social and civic engagement,” as well as a means of giving her Bowdoin students an opportunity to support their peers in Puerto Rico. She also describes it as a “great pedagogical opportunity.”
Audio: Larry Hall ’36 Reads Famous Christmas Story, ‘The Ledge’
An event in the waters off of Harpswell neck, not far from where English professor Lawrence Sargent Hall ’36 lived on Orr’s Island, inspires his O. Henry Award-winning short story, “The Ledge,” which is set on Christmas day. Listen to Hall read “The Ledge,” recorded in 1959. Save
‘Christmas Bells’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the best known American poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, of the Class of 1825, contributed to the wealth of carols sung each holiday season when he wrote “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” on December 25, 1864.
Works on Paper of the Month at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Four drawings by Louis Eilshemius (American, 1864–1941) have recently been acquired by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
“Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art” to open in early March at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
“Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art,” featuring approximately 35 works by a diverse range of artists who explore the experiential, psychological, and metaphorical implications of blindness and invisibility in recent American art, will open in March at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Lecture by Janet Berlo and Opening Reception for Spring Semester at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, will present “Narrative and Abstraction in Plains Indian Art, 1850 to the Present,” on January 25 in conjunction with the exhibition “Art from the Northern Plains”
Bowdoin Orchestra Performs Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite
Watch the Bowdoin Orchestra performing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.
Lopez Performs Russian Music in Conjunction with Museum’s Soviet Poster Show
The program included works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. In this video clip, Lopez performs the first movement of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the Promenade.