Exiting through the gift shop via Short Term course

Alexandra DeMarco

Stories by Alexandra DeMarco

Exiting through the gift shop via Short Term course

Thursday, June 18, 2026 9:22 am

This Short Term, students in “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a course taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture Erin Nolan, created and ran a pop-up gift shop featuring products inspired by art in the 2026 senior art thesis exhibition.

After decades of partnership, Bates supports new Maine MILL building with naming gift

Thursday, June 18, 2026 1:29 am

In recognition of the two institutions’ decades-long educational partnership, Bates is making a $75,000 gift to the Maine Museum of Innovation, Labor, and Learning’s new building.

Take a seat: 2026 ivy stone highlights community gathering at Bates

Thursday, May 28, 2026 3:48 pm

For Mia Wetzel ’26 of Mashpee, Mass., the Adirondack chairs on Bates' Historic Quad evoke a feeling of community representative of her Bates experience. That’s why she chose to depict them in her design for this year’s ivy stone.

Sixteen Bates students, alumni offered Fulbright Student awards for 2026–2027

Thursday, May 7, 2026 11:22 am

Sixteen current and former Bates students have been offered Fulbright Student international exchange awards for 2026–2027.

With Davis Projects for Peace, Bates students empower women workers, expand access to menstrual care

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 10:58 am

Two Bates students — Angel Guitcha ’27 of Accra, Ghana, and Vyshu Viju ’26 of Atlanta — have been awarded 2026 Davis Projects for Peace grants to carry out individual humanitarian projects.

In upcoming thesis exhibition, Bates senior studio art students each have a seat At the Table

Thursday, April 9, 2026 1:03 pm

On April 17, Bates’ graduating studio art and visual culture students will step outside of their studios to share their work with the world during At the Table: Senior Thesis Exhibition 2026.

There's something quietly radical about handing the keys of a museum's permanent collection to its community — about saying, this decision is yours. Bates Curates is an intimate evening built around exactly that. Curator Samantha Sigmon will guide attendees through three photographs by Shellburne Thurber — works that linger in doorways and dim interiors, that hold the weight of lives lived just out of frame — before opening the floor to a vote that will shape the museum's collection for good. Organized in conjunction with Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle, on view through March 21. Made possible by the Barbara Morris Goodbody Collection Endowment Fund.

Night at the museum: The community curates Museum of Art’s permanent collection

Thursday, March 26, 2026 9:13 am

During the first-ever Bates Curates event in March, faculty, staff, and students, and President Garry W. Jenkins, became “curators” as they gathered to select a new addition to the Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

First-generation student mentors help peers navigate academics, social life at Bates

Thursday, March 5, 2026 2:29 pm

In the Student Center for Belonging and Community, first-generation Bates students mentor their younger peers, providing guidance on everything from academics to internships to social life.

Over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent, and soft, and slow descends the snow. — Longfellow Back on campus after the February freak storm, Bates feels suspended between motion and stillness; cars crunch in half-melted tracks, boots drip by radiators, flights and plans still catching up somewhere in the clouds. Some of us are here, some are delayed, and the quiet holds space for both. It’s a strange return; rushed arrivals, late-night drives, weather maps open on our phones, yet the air itself feels calm, like the world pressed pause just long enough for us to notice it. The paradox is real; chaos in the forecast, steadiness on the quad. Snow does that. It softens edges, lowers voices, makes even a campus full of movement feel like it’s breathing slowly.

February at Bates

Thursday, March 5, 2026 8:25 am

February on campus saw sports successes, several large snowfalls, and our annual Winter Carnival — a week of events celebrating the joys of the chilly season.

Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores

Thursday, February 26, 2026 2:03 pm

Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores extracted from northern Greenland.