Exhibits

Current Exhibit

Tension/Tenacity: Africana Studies at 50

Fall, 2019
Second Floor Gallery, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

2019 marks five decades of the Africana Studies program, the African American Society, and the John Brown Russwurm Center at Bowdoin College. Culled from the College Archives’ collections, Tension/Tenacity seeks to consider the programs’ strengths and struggles while highlighting the people who have championed their existence.

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)