Arts are everywhere at Bates!

Cristina Salazar dances as part of her scene at the P'al Mundo cultural showcase,
Sadie Williams, Ralph Steadman’s daughter and the managing director of the Ralph Steadman Art Collection, circulates on in the main gallery where an exhibition of her father’s work, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” opens tomorrow, June 6, 2025, and runs through Oct. 11, 2025, in the Bates Museum of Art. This extensive traveling exhibition spans over 60 years of Ralph Steadman’s influential and lauded career, and features more than 140 original artworks and ephemera, including sketchbooks, handwritten notes, and personal photographs. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter familiar favorites, like the artist’s illustrations for literary classics such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, as well as works for activist causes, branding iconography, and even a life-sized bronze sculpture.
Students perform in the Fall 2025 theater and dance performance featuring an on stage "pool" of water as well as new lighting and sound technologies.

MUSIC
Department of Music
Crosstones
Deansman
Manic Optimists
Merimanders
TakeNote
Bates Musicians Union
Gospelaires
Small Ensembles Club

THEATER & PERFORMING ARTS
Department of Theater & Dance
Robinson Players
Bates Circus Arts Club
Village Club Series

CREATIVE ARTS
Creative Writing Major Concentration
Literary Arts Live

STUDIO ART AND ART HISTORY
Department of Art and Visual Culture
Bates Museum of Art

PUBLICATION
Snaggletooth Literary Arts Magazine
The Bates Student Newspaper

DANCE
Bates Dance Festival
Department of Theater and Dance
2BEATS
Bollywood Dance Team
Bates Dragon and Lion Dance Association
Ace+

FIBER ARTS
Knit Wits

CULTURE GROUPS WITH ARTS EVENTS
Asian Students Association
South Asian Student Association
Caribbean Student Association
Raices Unidos.
Black Student Union
Africana Club
Bates Multifaith Chaplaincy

BROADCASTING & FILM
Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies
Bates Film Festival
WRBC
Filmboard
Film Production Club

UMBRELLA ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Bates Arts Society

DEBATE
Brooks Quimby Debate Council