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Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime. 2 ARTS AND CULTURE CALENDAR OF EVENTS —FALL 2018 EXHIBITIONS Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center NEW EXHIBITIONS THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2019 Threads of Change: Clothing and Identity in OCTOBER 2, 2018, THROUGH the North JANUARY 20, 2019 Across the Arctic, generations of seamstresses Caught in the Middle: The Tragic Life of have fashioned animal furs and skins into Minik Wallace beautiful, warm, and waterproof clothing. This On the 100th anniversary of his death, we look exhibit explores how they express their creativity at the life of Minik, a young Inughuit boy who and identity through clothing and how their in 1897 traveled to New York with his father and attire reflects the changing nature of northern other relatives to spend a year working with an life. Funded by the Russell and Janet Doubleday anthropologist. What began as an adventure Endowment. ended in tragedy when Minik’s father, and most of the others, died of respiratory diseases. Minik was LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS adopted and raised by an American family and did Robert E. Peary and His Northern World not return to Greenland until 1909. He lived there until 1916 when he returned to the US, only to die As a pioneering Arctic explorer, Peary relied in the 1918 influenza epidemic. on many extraordinary people. He worked ceaselessly to improve his methods of travel and ONGOING EXHIBITIONS his equipment, always keeping in mind efficiency on the trail and the comfort and safety of his men. THROUGH OCTOBER 1 This exhibit provides new perspectives on Peary’s Blossoming Tundra: long career. Funded by the Russell and Janet The Photography of Doubleday Endowment. Rutherford Platt In 1947 and 1954, botanist and photographer Hawthorne-Longfellow Rutherford Platt sailed north on the schooner Library Bowdoin to study Arctic FALL 2018 plants. He took a series Parker Cleaveland: A Life in Science of remarkable close-up Bowdoin’s first professor of mathematics and photographs to highlight Rutherford Platt, Arctic natural philosophy, Parker Cleaveland (1780–1858), the wonders of the Rose, Dryas integrifolia, was a polymath who studied mineralogy, geology, Arctic’s incredible tiny Seed Head, August 14, 1947, astronomy, biology, conchology, and meteorology. flowers and illustrate Thule, Greenland. 35mm Kodachrome transparency. His An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology their specialized Gift of Alexander D. Platt ’66, (1816) was the first American textbook on the adaptations. Rutherford Platt Jr., and Susan Platt. subject, and he was instrumental in building the College’s early teaching collections. This exhibition THROUGH DECEMBER 22 draws upon these rich holdings to explore Enduring Connections: Contemporary Cleaveland’s pedagogical and scientific legacy. Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat Art Over the last 150 years, Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat ONGOING artists have drawn on ancient traditions to create Highlights from the Joshua Lawrence works reflecting their rich history of innovation Chamberlain Papers and resilience in the face of many challenges. This Treasures on display related to Civil War hero exhibit features the ways Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bowdoin Class of artists create carvings, 1852, include his Congressional Medal of Honor baskets, masks, and dolls and the Tiffany & Co. bracelet he designed for his to explore both their wife on their tenth anniversary. ancient traditions and the contemporary world. It Highlights from the George J. Mitchell Papers includes many recently Explore the life and legacy of Senator George J. Mitchell, Bowdoin Class of 1954, in this rotating acquired works. Funded Peter Smith, Puffin Mask, 1990. by the Russell and Janet Wood and pigment. Purchased exhibit of materials from his personal and political Doubleday Endowment. in memory of Meredith B. Jones. papers. BOWDOIN.EDU/ARTS/CALENDAR 3 DECEMBER 6, 2018, THROUGH Bowdoin College Museum JUNE 2, 2019 of Art Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment NEW EXHIBITIONS With works drawn from the Museum’s permanent SEPTEMBER 27, 2018, THROUGH collection, this exhibition explores the SEPTEMBER 29, 2019 intersections of art and the environment. Featuring objects from antiquity to today, Material Resources: Let’s Get Lost and Listening Glass Intersections of Art and the Environment examines Let’s Get Lost, a site-specific drawing by linn meyers, artists’ dependence on Earth’s material resources, will be complemented by the interactive sound while presenting art as an integral “material” installation Listening Glass, created by Rebecca resource in the study of the environment. Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles in partnership with meyers. The joint projects ONGOING EXHIBITIONS include visual and acoustic components that can be activated through audience participation. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space OCTOBER 4, 2018, THROUGH Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) was the FEBRUARY 10, 2019 youngest artist among the founders of the New Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New York School. This exhibition focuses on paintings England Botanical Studies from the 1960s and early 1970s, a fruitful period in Pousette-Dart’s career in which his work was Highlighting two exceptional artist-botanists, widely exhibited, championed by critics, and left a watercolorist Kate Furbish (1834–1931) and mark on a younger generation of artists. photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848–1938), this exhibition addresses important questions THROUGH OCTOBER 28 about the relationship between the arts and sciences and the interest in botany at the dawn of Winslow Homer and the Camera: the American industrial age. Photography and the Art of Painting This exhibition explores the question of Homer’s OCTOBER 11, 2018, THROUGH relationship with the medium of photography and APRIL 7, 2019 its impact on his artistic practice. Homer understood Among Women: Portraits from the that photography, as a new technology of sight, had much to reveal. This exhibition adds an important Permanent Collection new dimension to our appreciation of this Featuring outstanding portraits in all media from pioneering American painter. the Museum’s permanent collection and several important loans, the exhibition explores the THROUGH JANUARY 6, 2019 artistic portrayal of women in the US over the last A Handheld History: Medals from the three centuries and examines the myriad ways Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College artists have represented women in American art. A Handheld History allows viewers to experience the intimacy and poignancy of portrait medals spanning nearly five centuries and consider the lessons they have to impart to contemporary audiences. THROUGH OCTOBER 13, 2019 In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides This exhibition examines the geometry and design of ancient art and the efforts by artists to Tell Me What You’re Thinking, 2016, chromogenic print by represent depth and movement by influencing Mickalene Thomas. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. the vantage point of the viewer. By simply flipping NOVEMBER 15, 2018, THROUGH a coin, rotating a vase, or walking around a JANUARY 20, 2019 sculpture, new perspectives emerge.