Sydney Mieko King

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

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Art and Visual Culture

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207-786-6224 sking3@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2025

Photography I

AVC 219

This course is an extensive introduction to the techniques and aesthetics of digital photography. This course covers concepts and instruction related to using a digital camera, image cataloguing and editing software (i.e. Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop), and inkjet printing. Overall, this course focuses…

Winter Semester 2026

Photography I

AVC 219

Photography II

AVC 318

An intensive course meant for students with a solid foundation in photography. In this course, students will continue their study in digital photography, refining technical skills introduced in AVC 219. Topics covered will include large format inkjet printing, advanced Photoshop techniques, and the …

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Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetori…

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing them in groups over this semester. Part 1 ran in our newsletter of September 25, part 2 went out in our October 3 newsletter and Part 3 appeared in our October 10 newsletter.

Her electric violin at the ready on her right shoulder, Mavy Ho-Le ’26 started to slowly tap her foot on the stage at Olin Arts Center. It was Saturday Oct. 25 and the first strains of Radiohead’s 2016 song “Daydreaming,” were beginning to emerge from Fitter Happier, a Radiohead tribute band based in Portland.