Stories about "Arts"
Picture Story: A new wave of public art in downtown Lewiston
Friday, September 13, 2024 2:48 pm
Colorful, surprising, and shared by all, a new wave of downtown public art builds community in Lewiston.
Slideshow: This Summer at Bates
Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:04 am
When it comes to this summer at Bates, life flows on — gently and purposefully, and steadily preparing for the new year to come.
In Gomes Chapel, a Buddhist healing ritual grows, one grain of sand at a time
Friday, June 28, 2024 11:50 am
Created in Gomes Chapel this week by Tibetan nuns, the colorful, exquisite sand mandala will be dissolved into Lake Andrews, but its healing energy will remain.
From ‘Rugrats’ to 50th Reunion, Norton Virgien ’74 traces his career as a Hollywood animator
Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:21 am
"My career has alternated between projects that I've loved, and time looking for the next project that I'm going to love,” said Virgien, an award-winning TV and fiml animator, this year's Distinguished Alumnus in Residence and a member of the 50th Reunion class returning to Bates this weekend.
Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2024, and a Bates class that found its common humanity
Friday, May 31, 2024 12:33 pm
This immersive photographic display captures Bates' distinctive Baccalaureate Service. Far from serious or somber, it is a "celebration that is particular to each graduating class," said President Garry W. Jenkins.
70 years after his Bates honorary degree, William Grant Still ‘returns’ for inauguration
Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:40 am
Still, who received an honorary degree from Bates 70 years ago and whose music will be performed May 4 during the installation of Bates President Jenkins, was known as the dean of African American composers.
‘A really amazing thing’: The 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition has arrived
Friday, April 12, 2024 10:03 am
Photographs and text about the eight seniors who have moved their artwork from studios into the Bates Museum of Art for the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition — a "moment that validates what is possible."
Humanity comes first in casting students for Bates theater’s ‘The Gravediggers Union’
Friday, March 8, 2024 11:21 am
Filling in for a cast member during a dress rehearsal, visiting director Kevin R. Free hopped into a grave on the set, but not before offering a giggle and a burst of mirth because, he says, “Joy is my activism."
Bates Magazine: Fall 2023
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:57 pm
Here’s a flip version of the most recent issue of Bates Magazine,…
Picture Story: A winter night for the arts
Friday, January 26, 2024 11:16 am
From Coram Library, home of the new Immersive Media Studio, to Olin Arts Center, flung open for Open Studio night, the campus was alight with the arts on a winter night.