The Bates College Museum of Art and the Art and Visual Culture Department are pleased to invite you opening of the 2025 senior thesis exhibition,…

The Museum is pleased to once again welcome local artist Lesia Sochor to Bates for two workshops on Ukrainian egg decorating on April 4, from…

Join us for a stellar evening when Education Curator Anthony Shostak leads a viewing and discussion of a selection of astrophotographs acquired from the exhibition Starstruck: The…

Koepke will perform Emotional Tofu: Lewiston in front of his Emotional Tofu video works which are part of an ongoing series that were made alongside this exhibition. This new…

Join exhibition artists Harlan Crichton, Tristan Koepke, and Shey ‘Rí Acu’ Rivera Ríos in conversation with performance curator Cynthia Post Hunt. Each artist will briefly…

Crichton will collaborate with the ambient electronica duo Resource Plus to display his unique photographic process. Using a laser pointer, crystals, and found objects, the…

On December 13th, 2024 the Bates College Museum of Art will be hosting a Continued Education Credits workshop for local teachers in the Benjamin Mays…

Come to the Mays Center to print your own holiday card during the Printmaking Workshop. All materials are provided, signup ahead of time is required…

Please join us for a reception in the Museum to see our new Fall exhibitions! Light refreshment will be provided. The reception will be preceded…

Please join us for a panel discussion with four artists featured in the new Across Common Grounds exhibition will discuss the challenges and advantages of living and…

Ever thought about what it would be like to work in an art museum? Join the Curator of Education, Anthony Shostak, and our new Assistant…

Join us for a reception hosted by the Dean of Faculty to wish Dan well in his retirement, and take a moment to enjoy the current…

Do you need a midweek pick-me-up?  Free coffee drinks from Espresso Dave will be available at the Bates College Museum of art between 4:00-6:00pm on…

Please join us for a closer look at three photographs by artist and photojournalist Donna Ferrato, guided by Assistant Education Curator Morgan Hough.

Join us for visiting artist Eda Čufer in discussion with Marina Filipovic, Visiting Lecturer in Russian at Bates. Their talk will encompass subject matter relating…

Welcome back to campus! Join us for a reception in the Museum to see the exhibitions that opened over the summer and reconnect with friends…

Learn more about the brilliant, witty, inventive, and cerebral artist, known internationally for six decades of The New Yorker Covers and illustrations, in this lecture by exhibition…

Please join us for the opening of Hartley | Hopper: Drawings from Two New England Collections and Saul Steinberg: Brilliant Witty Inventive Cerebral during this…

Join us at the museum to hear from some of the artists represented in the Senior Thesis Exhibition about their artistic process. Light refreshments will…

Please join the Museum of Art and the department of Art and Visual culture in celebrating the opening of the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition, highlighting…

* * UPDATE: Monday, March 11 – Both sessions are now sold out. Thank you all for your interest! * * Friday, March 15th at…

Please join us for a lecture from Art and Visual Culture and Asian Studies Professor Trian Nguyen. Nguyen will lecture on his research of Yao…

In anticipation of the the Literary Arts Live talk by Morgan Talty on April 4, a group discussion of his book Night of the Living…

Immerse yourself in a wide variety of Indigenous short films alongside Bates Museum of Art’s current exhibition Exploding Native Inevitable (on view through March 4).…