Stories about "Arts"
Donald Lent, artist, teacher, and mentor who built the visual arts program at Bates College, dies at age 86
Thursday, July 9, 2020 11:13 am
The architect of the college's studio art program, Lent mentored and instilled "a sense of possibilities" in generations of Bates art students.
Vanessa German, award-winning visual and performance artist, to offer Commencement greetings to the Class of 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 1:38 pm
German will offer her greetings during the college’s 154th Commencement, which will be conducted remotely and livestreamed beginning at noon on May 31.
‘Witness, testimony, and evidence’: Bates students photograph COVID-19
Thursday, May 7, 2020 10:15 am
In their transition to remote learning, Bates photography students found unprecedented opportunity to document the effects of COVID-19 in their home communities.
Slideshow: Photography gives Bates student unique view of semester in Ghana
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2:18 pm
“I was able to build relationships with other students, with Ghanaians, with musicians, that I don’t think would have been possible if I hadn’t been pursuing photography.”
Video: Bittersweet notes from Village Club student musicians
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 6:29 pm
It didn’t replace the feeling of performing on stage before friends and fellow students at Bates. But for these Bates musicians, it still felt good.
Slideshow: Senior Thesis Exhibition — ‘Our arts students will help show us the way forward’
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 6:55 pm
This year's virtual Senior Thesis Exhibition celebrates 15 studio art majors whose artwork, poignant and pivotal, is "essential to protecting and celebrating our humanity."
Q&A: You needn’t know Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’ to appreciate this ‘Stupid F**king Bird’
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:20 pm
When Bates director Tim Dugan saw Aaron Posner's "sort of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, he says, “I was immediately blown away."
Video: Sam Findlen-Golden ’20 and the unexpected joy of mathematics
Friday, February 28, 2020 11:09 am
"Math manages to work its way into a lot of places that I didn't expect," says Findlen-Golden. "It can be math in the perspective of music or through the perspective of history and education, which is a lot of what I've done here outside of academics."
Multimedia: Three days with art and artists, music and musicians in Olin Arts Center
Thursday, February 13, 2020 3:05 pm
Bates photographers and writers share what they saw and heard in from students and professors in the college's arts center during three days in February.
Times and dates of five plays during Black History Month at Bates
Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:13 am
Bates’ Africana program offers five plays during Black History Month that use historical events as a springboard to explore white oppression and black resistance.