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Winter 2009 News

Collection Project III
Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 7pm


For Project III, student interns were invited to curate an exhibition from the collection. The exhibition is a continuation of the Museum’s Collection Project series of exhibitions and publications looking critically at our art collection with fresh eyes and new scholarship. In Project III, we will be tracking a diverse group of exhibitions over several years that look critically at our collection from the eyes of students, faculty, and curators utilizing new database tools for collection research. In this exhibition, five interns were invited to create thematic cluster exhibitions from works acquired by the Museum in the past few years. Cluster topics explore a variety of ideas and include gender, race, medium, and provenance. 
Curatorial Interns: Charlotte Coulter '09, Erin Gilligan '09, Forbes Litcoff '09,  Emily Monty '10, & Jessica Salzer '09

Stories of the Somali Diaspora:
Photographs by Abdi Roble

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 7pm



Self-taught photographer Abdi Roble continues in the long tradition of documentary photography with his ongoing, ambitious mission to record the Somali diaspora. Roble arrived in Columbus in 1990. While learning English, he worked at minimum-paying jobs, before taking on steady work selling cameras at Midwest Photo Exchange. He also started photographing the city’s growing and vibrant Somali community. For the last five years, Roble has been engaged in creating a visual archive as part of the Somali Documentary Project, which he founded in 2003 with Doug Rutledge, Stanley Kayne, and Tariq Tarey.

Bessire to leave for Portland Museum of Art


It is with mixed emotions that we announce that Mark Bessire, director of the Museum of Art, will leave the College in February to assume the directorship of the Portland Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mark and we celebrate his appointment. But we are sad to have him leave Bates, where he has made significant contributions as museum director and as advocate for the arts on campus.


Events!


Lecture
January 23, 2009, Olin Arts Center Room 104 at 5:00pm
Colonel Michael Paulovich, USMC (retired)
Challenges in Humanitarian Intervention: Cultural Lessons from Somalia 1992-1994

Artists' Talk


January 23, 2009, Olin Arts Center Room 104 at 6:00pm
Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge
The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away

Opening Reception: 7:00 pm

Alumni in the Arts Lecture series continues with
Brandy Gibbs-Riley '96.
6 p.m., February 4, Olin 104

Brandy Gibbs-Riley is a highly successful graphic designer, and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Colby-Sawyer College.  After Bates, she received her MFA in Graphic Design from Boston University, and studied modern and contemporary Dutch design in the Hague, Netherlands in 2001.  Among her many clients are IBM, PepsiCo, Boston Acoustics, Duracell, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Siemens, Ocean Spray, and The Boston Globe.

Curatorial Interns Give Tuesday Gallery Talks
12:00 pm-12:30 pm

March 3: Erin Gilligan
March 10: Charlotte Coulter
March 17: Forbes Litcoff
March 24: Jessica Salzer

 

 

 

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