October e-bulletin

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A detail of an etching and aquatint depicting a woman in flight

With the start of the new academic year, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art welcomes its newest cohort of student interns. These individuals do a great deal to help the BCMA realize new exhibitions, programs, and acquisitions. Learn more about them and the projects on which they will be working in the article below. As we look ahead, the BCMA will host several exciting programs this month. Of note, be sure to join us on October 9 at 5 pm in Beam Classroom when artist Neal Ambrose-Smith discusses the remarkable career of his mother artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025). This program and a recent acquisition of a drawing by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is made possible through generous gifts from Jimmy Ellis ’82, Martha Henry ’82, and Leslie Rainer ’82 in memory of their classmate Yvonne Swann Simon ’82. And, finally, after it opens on October 2, step into the BCMA’s Becker Gallery to see the latest faculty/student-curated exhibition Visions Unsettled: Stages of the Self in the Hispanic World, from the Spanish Empire to the Global Present. Our thanks to everyone who makes the BCMA such a lively place for the visual arts.

We look forward to seeing you in the galleries!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear III

Co-Directors, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

exhibitions

Now Open

Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections

This exhibition brings together works of premodern art from the Wyvern Collection (London, UK) with the collections of the BCMA to explore the deep ties that linked Asia, the Near East, North Africa, and Europe from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries.

A ninteenth century oil painting of a Spanish street scene

Opening Soon

Visions Unsettled: Stages of the Self in the Hispanic World, from the Spanish Empire to the Global Present

Visions Unsettled explores how identity has been imagined, fractured, and performed across the Hispanic world from the sixteenth century to today.

spotlight

A gallery in an art museum displays medieval objects

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Announces Major Exhibition and Long-Term Loan Partnership with Wyvern Collection

This fall, the BCMA presents Medieval Art from the Wyvern Collection: Global Networks and Creative Connections, the first in a series of rotating exhibitions based on the Museum’s new partnership with the prestigious, London-based Wyvern Collection.

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Welcoming the 25-26 Academic Year Student Interns

Emily Jacobs '23, Curatorial Assistant and Manager of Student Programs, highlights the 25-26 Academic Year intern cohort.

A vintage photograph of a lion sculpture on the exterior of an art museum

New Podcast: Between the Lions

A new podcast series by Whitney Pellegrino ’27, Education Intern and Shop Assistant this past summer, features interviews with BCMA gift shop staff members and museum officers.

calendar

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Gallery Talk | Gordon Parks: Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944

Noon-1 p.m. | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Artist Talk with Neal Ambrose-Smith: Honoring the Legacy of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

5-6 p.m. | Talk | Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

6-7:30 p.m. | Reception | Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

"Music at the Museum" with George Lopez

12-1 p.m. and 4-5 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.

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Banner: Francisco José y Lucientes de Goya, Volaverunt (detail), 1797-1798, etching and aquatint on paper. Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, Maine. Museum Purchase, 1981.32