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The following events will take place at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art during the month of November.
Double Consciousness: Remembering Black Images in American Struggles for Freedom
Nov. 11, 4:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium
Art historian Bridget R. Cooks will revisit the seminal Bowdoin exhibition, The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts. Her book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum was awarded the inaugural James A. Porter & David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History (2013). RSVPs are requested but not required.
Gallery Conversation with Prof. Paul Kaplan
Nov. 12, noon
Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY, and a specialist in European and American images of people of black African descent, will give a gallery talk focusing on two such images at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Gallery Conversation: Revealing Mediterranean Women
Nov. 18, noon
Susan Wegner, Associate Professor of Art History, and Davida Gavioli, Senior Lecturer in Italian, lead an interdisciplinary conversation about select works in the exhibition, Revealing Mediterranean Women.
Members’ Reception: “Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth”
Nov. 20, 6-7p.m.
Museum members are invited to join in conversation and good cheer at a reception preceding the Thursday Night Salon. RSVPs are requested but not required.
Thursday Night Salon: “Hendrick Goltzius: Virtuoso Printmaker, Exquisite Painter”
Nov. 20, 7p.m.
George Keyes, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Stephen Perkinson, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College, and Joachim Homann, Curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art present a close-up examination and discussion of the delightful prints and an astonishing painting by Hendrick Goltzius. Presented in conjunction with Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth.
Family Saturday
Nov. 22, 10-11 a.m.
Bowdoin College students organize and present “Family Saturday,” with activities related to the exhibitions on view.
Events are free, open to the public, and held in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, unless indicated otherwise.
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