Museum of Art Events
Friday Sep 18
Artist Talk: Phyllis Graber Jensen
4:30 pm
Photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen reflects on the defining moments behind some of her favorite images in Picture Stories, the retrospective exhibition celebrating her distinguished career in visual storytelling. Image Credit: Phyllis…
Thursday Oct 1
Fall 2026 Opening Reception
4:00 pm
Join us for the opening of our fall exhibitions. Carl Sprinchorn: Points of View, on view on the museum’s upper level, chronicles the life and work of under-recognized modern artist…
Wednesday Oct 7
Lunchtime Curatorial Talk with Samantha Sigmon
12:00 pm
Join Assistant Curator Samantha Sigmon as she shares special insight into Carl Sprinchorn: Points of View. Drawn from the Bates College Museum of Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition provides an…
Monday Oct 19
Cristi Rinklin: “Sentient Ecologies
4:30 pm
Cristi Rinklin’s paintings, installations, and works on paper examine the interplay between technological and analog simulations of landscapes. Rather than providing faithful representations of the natural world, her work creates…
Friday Oct 30
Celebrating the Launch of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project
3:30 pm
3:30-4:30pm Keynote Address with Whitney Museum Curator Barbara Haskell; 4:30-6pm Museum Open House & Reception Join Whitney Museum Curator Barbara Haskell as she explores the vital role of the Marsden Hartley Legacy…
Monday Nov 2
Artist Lecture: Christopher Reed “Moving Feelings: Kinesthetic Empathy and Queer Affiliation in the Art of Carl Sprinchorn, Charles Demuth, and Marsden Hartley”
4:30 pm
Challenging the European avant-garde's commitment to aesthetics of alienation, this group of American modernist painters explored the physical sensations of connection among bodies and with landscapes that 19th-century philosophers and…