May e-bulletin

A delicate ink wash painting that depicts a moon and willow tree

As May arrives at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, we take a moment both to savor the conclusion of another academic year and to welcome the beginning of the summer season. It is with deep gratitude that the Museum recognizes the tremendous contributions made by each of our student interns—achievements reflected in this month’s “Intern Round Up” article. We also look forward with excitement to the opening of the first of four summer exhibitions, each one exploring aspects of art in Maine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Enjoy an exclusive interview with artist Ann Craven, whose exhibition Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory) opens on May 22nd—just in time for graduation! And, on that note, we offer our heartiest congratulations to the students from the Class of 2025 as they prepare for Commencement and to take the world by storm.

We look forward to seeing you at the Museum!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III

Co-Directors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

exhibitions

A painting of a luminous sun setting over a coastal landscape

Closing Soon

Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

This exhibition brings together artworks, objects and representations of ecological inquiry, and historical documents and photographs to chart forest conversion and recovery on the island.

A detail of a painting of a crescent moon seen through tree branches

Opening Soon

Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)

This exhibition focuses on Ann Craven’s moon paintings, executed from 2020 through 2024. Over the course of the exhibition, three curators will collaborate with the artist to execute three distinct presentations of her moon paintings.

spotlight

An artist holds up a magazine in her empty studio

This Month the Museum Will Open Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory)

In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory), co-director Anne Collins Goodyear interviews artist Ann Craven. The interview was conducted one day before the artist completed her move out of her Harlem studio, a space she had occupied for twenty-five years, and the place where her “laboratory” of paintings of the Moon first took shape.

news

Celebrating the 2024–25 Academic Year Interns

As the semester comes to a close, the BCMA extends its thanks to the 2024–25 academic year interns for their invaluable contributions.

A detail of a print shows a group of people cowering away from another tall looming figure

Object of the Month

Pilar Saavedra-Weis ’25 discusses !Que Guerrero! (What a Warrior!) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.

calendar

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Music at the Museum with George Lopez

Noon and 5 p.m. | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Museum Hours

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 pm | Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. | Sunday: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art | 9400 College Station | Brunswick, ME 04011 | 207.725.3275

artmuseum@bowdoin.edu bowdoin.edu/art-museum

Banner: Ando Hiroshige, Willow Tree in Moonlight (detail), 1797-1858, watercolor and ink wash on paper. Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, Maine. Gift of Mrs. Philip Dana, 1954.3.19