Exhibits

Current Exhibit

Bowdoin @ 225: From Founding to its First Years

Summer, 2019
Second Floor Gallery, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

On June 24, 1794 Bowdoin College was established in a charter in the Massachusetts State Legislature. This summer celebrate the 225th anniversary of the College’s founding by examining archival material that tells the story of Bowdoin’s early years and its growth as an institute for higher education.

Past Exhibits

Interwoven: The Lives and Works of Martha Hall — For fiber and book artist Martha Hall (1949–2003), making art was a means of making sense of her world, including her extended battle with cancer. In this exploration of Hall’s archive, engage with her creative expressions as the tools she used to build powerful narratives to establish identity and community. (Spring 2019)

Four hundred years of scientific tracts and book arts illustrate how artists, scientists, and thinkers have interpreted the most basic, and most mysterious, phenomenon: color (Spring 2018)

An exploration of how typography, illustration, printing, binding, and other physical aspects of the book bear witness to cultural, social and historical innovation (Fall 2017)