Stories about "Arts"
Video: Works by Ashley Bryan, who ‘finds love and joy in what we live in,’ at Bates Museum of Art
Friday, October 23, 2020 11:46 am
Renowned poet Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr. touched her heart with her...
Meet new faculty: Michael Boyd Roman and the divine beauty of Black men
Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:02 pm
A lecturer in art and visual culture, Roman uses drawing, installation, and digital media to “portray the ordinary grace of contemporary Black men.”
Bates remembers Don Lent and Leigh Campbell ’64
Friday, August 14, 2020 8:35 am
In different but equally powerful ways, the late art professor Don Lent and financial aid director Leigh Campbell '64 gave so much to generations of students.
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."