Stories about "Creativity"

A peek behind the curtain: Contents of a costume shop
Friday, January 27, 2023 9:00 am
Step into the costume shop, ground zero for the many costumes in the Bates Theater Department's upcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in the first "peek behind the curtain" of the production process.

‘Art & Activism’: The story behind this year’s two MLK Day posters
Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:49 am
Two distinctive posters for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates celebrates the idea that "the history of MLK is beautiful," says Olivia Orr, the graphic designer who created the posters. "We're allowed to be joyful and artistic and expressive.”

Color these Bates students grateful
Friday, December 2, 2022 10:19 am
Bates students held their own version of a paint and sip night at the Ronj to paint postcards to express gratitude to someone special in their lives

Video: ‘Really cool outfits out of trash’
Friday, December 2, 2022 10:03 am
Watch Bobcats strut their stuff during the annual Trashion Show, where students model outfits designed by fellow students and made from campus trash.

Slideshow: Dionysus comes to Main Street America with ‘Hurricane Diane’
Friday, November 4, 2022 8:46 am
In directing a play with a message about climate change, Kush Sharma '23 explains how theater can be a way for people to feel they can "be part of change."

Bates receives $500,000 grant to fund major arts and technology project
Friday, October 28, 2022 8:46 am
A new Immersive Media Studio — a focal point of a major new arts and technology project funded by a $500,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation — will be a magnet pulling everyone from scientists to playwrights into collaboration.

Q&A: Commencement senior speaker learned to plant seeds of her own confidence
Thursday, May 26, 2022 6:05 pm
Senior speaker at Commencement on Sunday, Teresa Chico '22 talks about her experience as a first-gen student, how she's like a certain plant, and why she claps really loud when a cup is dropped in Commons.

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

Slideshow: Not your traditional ‘Antigone’
Thursday, March 17, 2022 1:23 pm
“What happens when we are deprived of the ability to grieve?” That’s...

‘Contented,’ says the cellist, rehearsing for his Bates senior recital
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 5:04 pm
Arie van Vuuren ’22 has played the cello since the second grade when his parents chose it for him so he could perform violin duets with his sister.