{"id":77036,"date":"2014-03-31T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T17:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=77036"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:08:19","slug":"senior-thesis-exhibition-display-of-polish-posters-open-april-4-at-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/31\/senior-thesis-exhibition-display-of-polish-posters-open-april-4-at-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Thesis Exhibition, display of Polish posters open April 4 at Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_76885\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/SenEx14-Sacra-Ashley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76885\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76885 \" alt=\"&quot;Ashley,&quot; an oil painting by Mahala Sacra, on display in the Senior Thesis Exhibition.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/SenEx14-Sacra-Ashley-600x392.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/SenEx14-Sacra-Ashley-600x392.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/SenEx14-Sacra-Ashley-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/SenEx14-Sacra-Ashley-580x380.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oil painting by Mahala Sacra &#8217;14, &#8220;Ashley&#8221; is on display in the 2014 Senior Thesis Exhibition.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ten studio art majors at Bates College show work from their yearlong thesis projects in the annual <em>Senior Thesis Exhibition<\/em>, which opens with a public reception at 6 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Senior Thesis Exhibition artists are Sara El Assaad of Rye, N.Y; Logan Greenblatt of South Berwick, Maine; Singha Hon of New York City; Daniel Huston of Ramsey, N.J.; Kelly Kruger of Kasota, Minn.; Alexis Martinetti of Manchester, Mass.; Julie Polizzotto of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mahala Sacra of Wayland, Mass.; Nicole Soroka of Houston; and Douglas Welsh of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/31\/10-bates-students-to-show-artwork-in-2014-senior-thesis-exhibition\/\">Learn more about the <em>Senior Thesis Exhibition<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_76617\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Cyrk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76617\" alt=\"&quot;Cyrk&quot; by Witold Janowski.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Cyrk-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Cyrk-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Cyrk-409x600.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Cyrk.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Cyrk&#8221; by Witold Janowski is on display with other Polish posters at the Bates Museum of Art.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Showing concurrently with the senior exhibition is <em>Polish Posters: Art and Allusion<\/em>, an exhibition tracing the evolution of the influential graphic arts of Poland from the 1960s into the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition explores factors that won these works an international following and traces the evolution of Polish graphic arts during the transition away from communism.<\/p>\n<p>The posters will be shown in the Museum&#8217;s Synergy Space Gallery, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., and in satellite galleries in Roger Williams Hall, 9 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk) and Hedge Hall, 7 Andrews Road.<\/p>\n<p>In a related event, art scholar Beata Niedzialkowska offers a lecture titled <em>Art on the Streets: The Polish Poster as Cultural Commentary<\/em> at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center. A reception follows in the museum.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/31\/polish-posters-art-and-allusion-opens-april-4-at-bates-college-museum-of-art\/\">Learn more about <em>Polish Posters: Art and Allusion<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both exhibitions run through May 24. Open to the public at no cost, museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Wednesdays during the academic year. For more information, please contact 207-786-6158 or <a href=\"mailto:museum@bates.edu\">museum@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 &#8220;Senior Thesis Exhibition&#8221; and a display of posters from an influential period in Polish graphics arts open on April 4 at the Bates College Museum of Art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":76885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,133],"tags":[2885,1363,6889,7842,11341],"class_list":["post-77036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-art-and-visual-culture","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-senior-thesis","tag-senior-thesis-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77055,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036\/revisions\/77055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}