Summer greetings! We enjoyed celebrating graduation last weekend. On that occasion artist Katherine Bradford was awarded an honorary degree. Our heartfelt congratulations to her and the outstanding Class of 2022. You can read more below about the students, including several seniors, who worked at the BCMA this past academic year. As we look ahead, please join us on Saturday, June 25 for the opening of At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, an exhibition that brings together artworks made in Maine from the BCMA’s collection with a series of important loans. Bradford’s painting Fear of Dark (2020) will be part of that exhibition. In this issue please enjoy an interview with photographer Walter Smalling, whose photographs of the homes and studios of historic and contemporary Maine artists undergird At First Light and are now on view in their own dedicated exhibition.

See you at the Museum!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
exhibitions
RECENTLY OPENED
At First Light: Two Centuries of Maine Artists, Their Homes and Studios
Beginning in 2018, celebrated architectural photographer Walter Smalling crisscrossed the state of Maine in all seasons creating images of important artist homes and studios.
OPENING SOON
At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine
The exhibition presents artworks created in Maine over the last two centuries and argues for the important place that the visual arts have played in the state’s history.
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Walter Smalling Pictures Maine Artist Studios and Homes
An interview with the photographer whose images take center stage in the book, At First Light: Two Centuries of Maine Artists, Their Homes and Studios.
calendar

JUNE 10
Family Art Night
4:00-7:00 pm

JUNE 25
Keynote Lecture: "Skowhegan and Art-Making in Maine"
4:00 pm

JUNE 25
Opening Reception: At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine
5:00 pm
Recognizing Student Interns
Thank you and congratulations to our academic year student interns.
membership
To our members,
 
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Museum Hours

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Banner image: Idluk: Fabulous Fish, 2006 (detail), earthenware, by Melissa Green, American. Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse. This object is included in the exhibition At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine.