Mary Pols
Stories by Mary Pols

Disorientingly different but exhilarating: Short Term courses taught by visiting practitioners
Friday, May 20, 2022 2:14 pm
Practitioners descend onto campus to teach courses, from marketing to national security reporting, that teach applied skills and give students a chance to expand their professional networks.

Bates Film Festival announces 2022 awards in six categories
Friday, May 13, 2022 1:01 pm
From more than 20 films screened at the 2022 Bates Film Festival, the Bates students who produced the festival have announced jury and audience awards in six categories.

Meet the artists of the 2022 Bates Senior Thesis Exhibition and themes of life-altering experiences of our times
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:51 am
Home is where — or what — the art is for many of these seniors participating in the studio art thesis exhibition

Bates Film Festival roars back to life
Thursday, April 7, 2022 2:51 pm
Delayed because of the pandemic, the 2022 Bates Film Festival festival featured special guests like actor, writer, directors John Turturro and John Shea ’70.

From Ed Muskie ’36 to Angus King, the desk of the senators from Maine remains the same
Friday, April 1, 2022 1:16 pm
How the legacy of a piece of office furniture mirrors the responsibilities of representing Maine in Washington, DC.

Bates College announces plan to become climate positive by 2030
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:04 am
Meeting the goals of the Bates Sustainability Roadmap will "touch and enrich our lives here on campus," said President Clayton Spencer, while also furthering the college's stated mission of "to prepare leaders with a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world."

Quest to solve the mysteries of Marsden Hartley’s artwork receives $100K boost
Friday, February 18, 2022 12:05 pm
The enormous task of locating and documenting more than 1,600 works by Lewiston-born artist Marsden Hartley received a major gift from the Vilcek Foundation, a family foundation with a long history of collecting Hartley works.

Blown ashore on the Maine coast, Bates geology students were blown away by their magical visits with artist Ashley Bryan
Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:23 pm
Whike kayaking the Maine coast in May 2014, geology professor Dyk Eusden '80 and his students were blown off course — and into the welcoming an magical world of artist Ashley Bryan, who died last week at age 98.

Bates Dance Festival receives two grants totaling $190,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts
Thursday, February 3, 2022 2:51 pm
The grants include an American Rescue Plan award of $150,000 designed to help the festival recover from the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

13 nuggets from a gem of an exhibition about Lewiston-born modernist artist Marsden Hartley
Friday, September 24, 2021 11:25 am
Personal effects and mementoes, alongside a powerful showcase of artwork, gives nuanced meaning to Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts, now at the Bates College Museum of Art.