Stories about "Arts"
Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson to deliver 2018 Commencement address, joined by honorands Lynsey Addario, Jill Lepore, and Bob Ludwig
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:00 am
Stevenson's work has freed wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners, reduced excessive sentences given to others, and brought greater equality to the U.S. criminal justice system.
‘In love with something’: Senior Thesis Exhibition 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018 2:51 pm
As studio art majors work up to Bates' senior exhibition, it helps if they "fall in love with something.”
Bates in the News: March 30, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018 11:29 am
After the Trump administration rolled back the definition of an organic egg, PBS NewsHour interviewed Jesse Laflamme ’00, CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs.
Artist-in-residence Darsono brings lifetime of expertise to gamelan
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:51 pm
Darsono, a prominent Javanese performer and an artist in residence at Bates, has found that the college is surprisingly well-equipped for his teaching.
Social justice takes many forms at inaugural Bates Film Festival
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:13 pm
When it was time for students in the Bates College course “Film Festival Studies” to produce the inaugural Bates Film Festival, friends were ready to help.
Look What We Found: A note from Seamus Heaney to Georgia Nigro
Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:36 am
Heaney sent Nigro a poem with handwritten revisions.
Q&A: Three alumni poets honor the ‘perfect teacher of undergraduates,’ poet Rob Farnsworth
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:49 pm
As 'retirement urges sweet return,' Bates salutes poet Rob Farnsworth, who leaves the classroom after 26 years.
Bates adaptation of ‘Diary of a Madman’ wins theater festival honors
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:24 pm
The Bates adaptation and production of Diary of a Madman took three awards at the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Picture Story: Behind the scenes at Asia Night and highlights from the show
Friday, February 9, 2018 11:38 am
Photographer Theophil Syslo shares images of the preparations for and colorful spectacle of the annual Asia Night show at Schaeffer Theatre.
Video: Nate Stephenson ’18 plays the madman ‘who could be anyone’
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:07 am
For his honors thesis in theater performance, Nate Stephenson ’18 plays Everyman from Nikolai Gogol's short story “Diary of a Madman."