Stories about "Creativity"
Picture story: Mingle and meet at the Senior Thesis Exhibition opening
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:51 pm
Tucked into the corner of the Bates College Museum of Art is a small sign with an invitation from Christopher Barker ’21: He wants visitors to pick up his ghostly, serene-looking vessels.
Video: Decorating a big Bates cake and eating it too
Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:09 pm
“A party without a cake is a meeting,” said Julia Child, who…
Help! Who’s there when Bates students need someone
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 1:27 pm
Here's our first in a series of portraits of Bates staff, folks who help position students for success in their work and lives at Bates.
Oh Henry! Bill Henry ’85 wins editing Emmy for HBO’s ‘Succession’
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:20 am
Henry has seen the film industry’s shift from “100 years on acetate film to a completely digital medium.”
Three recipes from the 2020 Harvest Meal (no flamingo, sorry)
Friday, November 20, 2020 1:15 pm
Pink flamingos weren’t on the Harvest Meal menu (they just helped with the theme, "Life’s a Beach”). But seafood chowder, beef brisket with brown sugar and chili rub, and herbed stuffing were — and here are the recipes.
7 pieces of hopeful, loving, and creative advice from two artists’ 174 years of wisdom
Friday, November 6, 2020 9:01 am
Amid these tumultuous times, we found comfort and advice from the hopeful conversation between artists and friends Ashley Bryan, age 97, and Nikki Giovanni, age 77.
Video: A professor’s award-winning poem, graced by Androscoggin River scenes
Thursday, November 5, 2020 4:40 pm
Ian Khara Ellasante's poem is an ode to their grandfather, who like so many of our grandparents, write themselves on our hearts, helping to "grow us and shape us like water.”
Video: Works by Ashley Bryan, who ‘finds love and joy in what we live in,’ at Bates Museum of Art
Friday, October 23, 2020 11:46 am
Renowned poet Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. touched her heart with her…
Meet new faculty: Brian J. Evans and the meaning of dance
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:15 pm
We create meaning with more than our brains, says Evans, a new lecturer in dance. Through the embodied arts, we can literally "dance through life" — and gain the power "to be unabashedly human.”
Ariel Abonizio ’20 creates virtual-reality tours for Museum L-A
Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:13 pm
With a Purposeful Work internship available to graduating seniors this year, Abonizio worked with high-end multimedia gear to create VR tours of two major exhibitions, one on the history of child labor in Maine, the other about the Androscoggin River.