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“As the parent of an art and visual culture major, I saw my daughter’s worldview expand. In its potential to offer powerful insights into other cultures as well as our own, the study of art belongs at the heart of a liberal arts education for the 21st century.” — Kathy Whelan P’05, Bates Trustee
“My approach, my discipline and dedication “From cutting-edge student-directed theater to the Bates Dance Festival, some
to my work were all begun and shaped at
of the best performances that Lewiston has to offer take place at Bates, pro-
Bates. And in the end, everything I ever
viding a wonderful and diverse counterpoint to our other community venues.”
needed to know about the importance of
— Rick Speer, Director, Lewiston Public Library
the arts in my life, I learned from dance program founder Marcy Plavin.” — John Carrafa ‘76, choreographer
“My students attended a performance by pianist Frank Glazer, and returned to me eyes wide, awed by this encounter with an unfamiliar audience. The arts can bring students out of the Bates bubble and out of their comfort zone, and make them reflect on their own images in the community’s eyes.” — Heidi Chirayath, sociology professor “The arts foster my sense of creative engagement. Through both studying the historical
“The arts provide a medium for prospering a spirituality that opens new possibilities, creates
and producing the practical, I
common cause and inspires a reasonable hope for, among and beyond the Bates community.”
broaden my life and advance
— The Rev. Bill Blaine-Wallace, Multifaith Chaplain
my cultural awareness.” — Travis Jones ‘13, a double major in theater and in art and visual culture
“Dance at Bates gave me my first mentor, a caring community and lifelong friends. It gave me a new landscape in which to explore and define myself, and lifelong performance skills that have been a wonderful asset in business. I’m thrilled the spotlight has brightened on the arts at Bates.” — Geri FitzGerald ‘75, Bates Trustee
Bates Arts Collaborative Welcomes You It could not be a more exciting time to be in, around or studying the arts at Bates College. Born out of the Presidential Arts Initiative, reflecting years of vigorous advocacy, the Bates Arts Collaborative has set the stage for an exhilarating period of growth in the performing, visual and literary arts. With generous Mellon Foundation funding, our team of staff and faculty is exploring how best to promote, enable and organize creative work in the College community on many levels. You hold in your hands early fruit of our collaborative labor: the second edition of an Arts Calendar that introduces academic and extracurricular arts programs at Bates, and offers a tempting menu of events in every genre from book illustration to Bollywood dance in 2011. Moreover, transcending this informational mission, the calendar has given us a tremendously enriching opportunity to explore and clarify our strengths and the promise of our future. This creative process has affirmed for Bates, in a marvelous way, our will to both collaborate around issues that advance common goals, and enable the more individualized and specialized realms of practice and expertise that make creative arts burn so brightly within the liberal arts. Our efforts have also focused on a signal event in early 2011: the Bates Arts Summit. This two-day event, Jan. 24–25, will reach both outward and inward to celebrate art-making and study in the liberal arts. Respected and innovative guest artists will perform, as well as facilitate our discussions of how we can best realize the arts within both campus and broader communities in new and reinvigorated ways (please see inside back cover for more information). Already behind us is a preparatory round table with Lynne Conner, chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Colby College, whose generous spirit and incisive scholarship on the history of the arts audience proved remarkably insightful. Lynne returns for the summit with spoken-word artist and dancer Marc Bamuthi Joseph and with Amara Geffen, who is professor of sculpture and ceramics at Allegheny College and director of Allegheny’s Center for Economic and Environmental Development. The Arts Summit will set the campus aglow with our guests’ events and with a kaleidoscope of additional opportunities to savor the arts. Also in 2011, the College observes two landmark anniversaries in the arts, as Schaeffer Theatre celebrates its 50th and the Olin Arts Center, its 25th. So here we are! Come to Lewiston, engage with and enjoy the arts at Bates — and consider, perhaps, application for admission to such a lively and creative campus. Won’t you join us as we further the arts in the liberal arts?
— Kirk Read Chair, Bates Arts Collaborative Associate Professor of French
Music Bates
MUSIC IS THE HEARTBEAT OF CAMPUS LIFE. HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS TAKE MUSIC COURSES, STUDY VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR ENSEMBLES THAT REFLECT MUSIC MAKING AS A GLOBAL ENDEAVOR. Masaki Endo performs during Listening In, Looking Out. See Spotlight, below.
Bates’ vibrant music community is diverse and encompassing. Student and faculty musicians and acclaimed guest artists offer more than 150 presentations and performances at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall during the academic year. The study of music from a global perspective is an academic priority at the College. Department ensembles include a concert choir, the Bates College Orchestra, a fiddle band, a jazz band, the Caribbean-influenced Steel Pan Orchestra and the Bates Gamelan Orchestra, a bronze percussion orchestra from Indonesia. The department offers one-on-one instruction in instrumental and vocal performance. Concerts reflect the local community and the world. Artist in residence Frank Glazer, a pianist
of international renown, performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in 2009–10. Guest artists have included songwriter Suzanne Vega, Germany’s Auryn String Quartet, jazz visionaries Avishai Cohen and Pat Martino, pianist Richard Goode, “guit-steel” picker
Junior Brown and gospel-blues artists, the Holmes Brothers. Plan to Attend
Listed concerts take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston.
See a complete schedule: www. bates.edu/music-concerts.xml Ticket prices list [general public] / [seniors and students]. Purchase seats for ticketed events: www.batestickets.com. Learn more: 207-786-6135 • olinarts@ bates.edu • bit.ly/facebook-music
SPOTLIGHT HIROYA MIURA, COMPOSER Hiroya Miura is known locally as conductor of the Bates College Orchestra, and internationally as a composer. In December 2010, Bates experienced his Listening In, Looking Out, a stunning exploration of nonverbal communication through sound and image. This broadly collaborative work involved schoolchildren in Maine and Japan, intermedia artist Peter Bussigel, percussionist Masaki Endo, Miura and three Bates students.
student vocalists and instrumental soloists. Free admission, but tickets required
JANUARY Jan. 23 & 30 Sundays With Schubert: Pianist Frank Glazer
April 7 Voice Students of Bonnie Scarpelli
Sundays at 3pm Bates artist in residence and one of Maine’s best-known pianists, Glazer spotlights the music of Franz Schubert in a series of concerts concluding in February. Free admission, but tickets required
Thursday at 4:15pm A recital by students of Scarpelli, who teaches voice at Bowdoin and Bates colleges and at her Portland studio. Free admission
April 7 Bates College Steel Pan Orchestra
FEBRUARY Feb. 6 Sundays With Schubert: Pianist Frank Glazer Sunday at 3pm The third and final Sunday concert by Bates artist in residence Glazer spotlighting piano music of Franz Schubert. Free admission, but tickets required
The Deansmen, Bates’ oldest a cappella vocal group, perform during the Accepted Students Reception in April 2010.
Feb. 10 Gretchen Parlato Quartet
Saturday at 8pm Guest artists from the Buffalo Philharmonic join the orchestra, directed by Assistant Professor of Music Gina Fatone, for the program Cross-Currents in Bronze: New Music for Gamelan. Featured works include Lou Harrison’s Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese Gamelan. Free admission, but tickets required
Thursday at 7:30pm Never predictable but always striking an ideal balance between precision and freedom, Parlato takes jazz singing into new realms. Saxophonist Wayne Shorter likened her instrument to that of Sinatra. Pianist Herbie Hancock, another fan, said that Parlato has a “deep, almost magical connection to the music.” Learn more:
http://gretchenparlato.com/ $12/$6
Feb. 11–13 Auryn Quartet: Beethoven Cycle, Year Three
MARCH
APRIL
March 12 Bates College Gamelan Orchestra With Special Guests
April 1–2 Bates College Choir
March 19 Bates College Orchestra Saturday at 7:30pm Hiroya Miura, a composer and member of the music faculty, directs the orchestra. Free admission, but tickets required
Friday and Saturday at 8pm Director John Corrie leads the choir in Franz Joseph Haydn’s masterpieces Te Deum and Missa in Angustiis, better known as the “Lord Nelson Mass.” As always, student soloists are selected by audition and featured from the ensemble during performance. Free admission, but tickets required
April 6 Bates College Jazz Band Wednesday at 7pm Led by prominent Maine pianist Thomas Snow, this program offers big-band arrangements and small combo settings in a range of styles including bossa nova, funk, classic swing and standards spotlighting
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 3pm Germany’s Auryn Quartet concludes its complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets, with each program spanning the composer’s career. “There is no shortage of great and famous Beethoven cycles,” a reviewer for Gramophone said of the Auryn’s Beethoven recordings, “but there are no performances such as these.” Learn more:
www.aurynquartet.com $10/$4
Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter rocked the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall in 2009.
Thursday at 7pm Erica Butler directs the popular Steel Pan Orchestra. Free admission
MAY May 6 Frank Glazer Plays Bach, Beethoven and Liszt Friday at 7:30pm The Maine pianist and Bates artist in residence offers music by masters of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Free admission, but tickets required
May 15 An Acoustic Evening: Jon Anderson, the Voice of Yes Sunday at 7:30pm The voice of the progressive rock band Yes brings his wonderfully unmistakable sound to the Olin Arts Center. Come experience the amazing acoustics of the smallest venue on Jon’s tour! Learn more: www.jonanderson.com/ $37.50
Theater Bates
The Department of Theater and the student-run Robinson Players (see inside back cover) stage more than a dozen performances in our three theaters each year. Productions run the gamut from Greek tragedy to narrative film; from Molière to Mamet; from Shakespeare to cutting-edge performance art. Among recent productions are Hotel Universe by Philip Barry and the Greek tragedy Alcestis, in the translation-adaptation by poet Ted Hughes. Theater faculty are known for their work in the community as playwrights and filmmakers. The Short Term theater production workshop sparks up adventurous collaborations, such as 2009’s partnership with Figures of Speech Theatre, renowned for its work with masks, puppetry and other traditional stagecraft. Students act, direct, write plays and make movies. They design scenery and lighting. They build sets and create costumes. Meanwhile,
Tim Fox ’11 of Framingham, Mass., played Tom Ames and Alina Volobuyeva ’11 of Kharkiv, Ukraine, played Hope Ames in the 2010 production of Hotel Universe, directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz.
they receive a first-rate liberal arts education as they combine critical thinking with creative activity in learning the history, theory and practice of performance.
SPOTLIGHT SCHAEFFER THEATRE AT 50
Plan to Attend Performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, the Black Box Theater downstairs, and in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall — all at 305 College St. See a complete schedule of theater department productions: www.batestickets.com
In 1960, Lavinia Schaeffer staged the first production — Molière’s Tartuffe — in the new Little Theater. In 1972, the building was renamed for Miss Schaeffer as she retired from the faculty after 34 influential years. In March, we celebrate a half-century of Bates’ first performance center with more Molière: The Learned Ladies, a hilarious satire on intellectual vanity.
Except as noted, admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for senior citizens and non-Bates students. Purchase tickets: www.batestickets.com Learn more: 207-786-6161
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MARCH March 11–13, 18–20 Learned Ladies by Molière Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm; Sundays at 2pm A girl wants to wed her dashing young suitor, but Mama is determined to marry her off to an ugly bore — because he’s a poet. A rousing face-off between intellectual folly and sturdy common sense, Molière’s satire marks the 50th anniversary of Schaeffer Theatre, which opened with Molière in 1960–61 (see Spotlight, at left), and continues Bates’ long
tradition of staging the classics. Schaeffer Theatre
March 10, 12–13 Oleanna by David Mamet Thursday and Sunday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 2pm The ultimate “he said, she said” drama shining light on sexual harassment, political correctness and gender politics. Directed by Elizabeth Castellano ’12. Gannett Theater Free, no reservations
APRIL April 6 Voice and Speech Performance Wednesday at 7:30pm Students in Katalin Vecsey’s voice and speech course perform their final project. Gannett Theater Free, no reservations
MAY May 19–22 Theater Production Workshop Thursday–Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm Students and faculty collaborate on an evening of theater. The show title and further information will be announced later. Gannett Theater
THEATER AT BATES OFFERS A FIRST-RATE LIBERAL EDUCATION. IT COMBINES CRITICAL THINKING WITH CREATIVE ACTIVITY, AND DRAWS ON MANY OTHER DISCIPLINES FOR STORIES AND SKILLS THAT BRING WORLDS TO LIFE ON STAGE. Adam Rawlings ’10, Marketa Ort ’13 and Lauren Christianson ’12 performed in the fall 2009 production of “Shakespeare’s new play” — All the World’s a Grave.
ENDEAVOR AT BATES, ENCOURAGING A BROAD UNDERSTANDING OF ART AND CULTURE THROUGH DANCE. Members of the Bates College Modern Dance Company perform guest choreographer Niles Ford’s Redemption Song in the Fall Dance Concert 2010.
Dance at Bates is a four-season activity, feeding student passion for movement with courses and performing opportunities during the school year, and summertime professional training at the Bates Dance Festival (described at right). Through workshops or fully staged performances, dancers and spectators experience the excitement of dance as a dynamic process of exploration and discovery. Within the Department of Theater and Rhetoric, Bates offers a
vibrant minor in dance, integrating theory and practice to achieve a rich understanding of the art form and its cultural context. Guest artists help us diversify our contemporary repertory: In fall 2010, the Bates Modern Dance Company hosted residencies by choreographers Niles Ford and Monica Bill Barnes. Each taught technique classes and set choreography on students, which they performed in the autumn concert (see Spotlight, below).
professional choreographers in the fall, students in the courses Dance Composition and Advanced Composition go on to create their own choreography for the Spring Concert. Plan to Attend Most dance performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.
Purchase tickets: www.batestickets.com Learn more: 207-786-6161 •
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SPOTLIGHT In fa ll 2010, Ebbe Sweet ‘11 merged her passions
PHOTO:Ebbe Sweet
for photography a nd da nce into a n independent study, document ing choreographer Niles Ford’s t wo -week residenc y wit h t he Modern Da nce Compa ny. Through t his immersive experience, she says, “I lea rned to look beyond t he basic move ments to f ind sma ller stories wit hin t he la rger mo t ive of document ing Niles’ rehea rsa ls.”
FEBRUARY Feb. 12 Franco American–Bates (F.A.B) Winter Dance Showcase Saturday at 7pm Sixth annual regional dance concert co-produced in downtown Lewiston by Bates and the Franco-American Heritage Center (see below). Learn more:
www.francoamericanheritage.org/ Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St., Lewiston Admission TBA
PHOTO:Ebbe Swee t ’11
Dance Bates PERFORMANCES, COURSES AND THE CELEBRATED BATES DANCE FESTIVAL MAKE DANCE A FOUR-SEASON
APRIL April 1–4 Bates College Modern Dance Company
BATES DANCE FESTIVAL JULY 11–AUG. 13 The 2011 Bates Dance Festival continues its tradition of nurturing a creative community of dance, welcoming leading practitioners, musicians, educators, students and audiences.
Friday and Monday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 5pm; Sunday at 2pm Featuring new works by student choreographers from the courses Dance Composition and the Advanced Composition Seminar, in collaboration with students from the courses Computer Music and the Arts, and Lighting Design. Schaeffer Theatre $6/$3
Festival highlights: Festival veterans David Dorfman Dance perform their new Prophets of Funk/Dance to the Music, driven by sounds of Sly and the Family Stone. (Aug. 5–6)
The gutsy and eloquent choreographer Camille A. Brown presents vivid new works by her company for their Maine premiere. (July 15–16) )
April 30 Bates Dance Alumni Reunion Concert
Another Maine premiere is Nicholas Leichter’s The Whiz: Over the Rainbow, a vibrant re-imagining of the Broadway hit with an original score by Monstah Black. (July 21 & 23)
Saturday at 8pm In a gathering that’s certain to make wonderful memories, as well as celebrate them, alumni representing more than four decades of Bates dance return to perform — and to celebrate this popular College program, its beloved founder, Marcy Plavin, and her husband, the late Leonard Plavin, who left an invaluable photographic archive of Bates dance comprising some 10,000 images. Free; no reservations
MAY May 25 Short Term Dance Variety Show Wednesday at 5pm This student-produced concert spans the genres, from Bollywood to modern dance reflecting the cultural diversity of the dancing population at Bates College. Schaeffer Theatre Free; no reservations (does sell out!) At left: festival artist Omar Carrum.
FR ANCO AMERIC AN + BATES = F. A .B.
PHOTO: Martin Gavica
Zoe Scofield/Juniper Shuey return, bringing their multimedia A Crack in Everything, examining the emotional spectrum of justice and retaliation. (July 29–30) Additional free performances, lectures and other programs. Join our e-list for details this spring!
Plan to Attend Most performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Admission prices vary. Learn more: 207-786-6381 • dancefest@bates.edu • www.batesdancefestival.org
SPOTLIGHT
Franco American + Bates = F.A.B. The annual collaborative dance performance called F.A.B.
A Bates Dance Festival
is a thrilling intersection of audiences, professional and
and Portland Ovations
student dance artists from across Maine and special
collaboration brings
guests from beyond. It’s hosted by Lewiston’s Franco-
Doug Varone and Dancers to Portland’s Merrill Auditorium
American Heritage Center, a historic church wonderfully
Feb. 16 following a creativity-teaching residency during the
redesigned as a performance center — now in year six of
festival in 2010.
a community partnership with the Bates dance program.
More information and tickets: www.portlandovations.org
Art + Visual Culture Bates
Christopher Childs and Heidi Judkins, students showing work in the 2010 Senior Exhibition, admire a work by Judkins at left.
With nearly 100 declared majors, equally divided between studio art and the history and criticism of visual culture, this is one of the largest departments at Bates. Six faculty prepare students to work in painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking and installation art and design. Five teach courses on the visual cultures of Africa, Asia, the Islamic world, Europe and the Americas from antiquity to the contemporary era. While preparing students for careers throughout the field, we bring insight into current analytical practice and studio production to the larger college curriculum. Lectures by visiting artists and historians, many of them alumni, are
open to the public. Speakers have included video artist and Whitney Biennale star Kate Gilmore ’97, Harvard University art conservator Christopher Sokolowski ’90 and Helen Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
TYPICAL EVENTS Winter and spring events are rooted in our teaching and are often announced at short notice. Please watch the Bates events site (home.
bates.edu/views/events/) and our Facebook fan page, bit.ly/facebook-avc, for announcements of lectures and exhibitions — including the following types of activity
Plan to Attend
Events sponsored by the Department of Art and Visual Culture take place in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., and other campus locations. They are usually open to the public at no charge. Learn more: 207-786-6135 • bit.ly/facebook-avc
In September, Art and Visual Culture presented British film producer and director Bruno Wollheim for a screening and discussion of his award-winning David Hockney: A Bigger Picture.
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR CAREERS THROUGHOUT THE ART WORLD, THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE JOINS STUDIO PRACTICE WITH STUDY IN THE HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF ART.
that are usually offered at the Olin Arts Center:
Open Studios and Senior Thesis Exhibition In the fall, 13 senior studio majors began working towards their senior thesis exhibition. The 2011 exhibition opening in the Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, takes place April 8.
Class Work-In-Progress Installations Students in a course often stage events and install work for public exhibition. Recent examples include an installation marking the International Day of Climate Action and A Series of Unfortunate Ideas, presented by the Visual Meaning class in the New Commons Building.
Artist Visits Artists invited to work with courses frequently offer public lectures. Recent visitors have included graphic designer Brandy Gibbs-Riley ’96, now on the faculty at Colby-Sawyer College. In September 2010, two noted filmmakers brought their work to campus: British producer and director Bruno Wollheim spoke about his film David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, and Ellen Weissbrod discussed her film on 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, A Woman like That.
Lectures By Visiting Historians and Critics In connection with courses, and in collaboration with other programs and the Bates College Museum of Art, the department regularly hosts leading curators and other scholars
Catherine Elliott ’12 works on her semester-long independent project with leading Maine ceramic artist and Bates senior lecturer Paul Heroux. Courses for advanced majors in studio art often take the form of such one-on-one independent studies, leading to senior theses in their chosen media.
who provide public lectures. These have included talks by Dorothy Glass, a professor at the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome; Susan L. Ward, art historian at the Rhode Island School of Design; and Thomas Denenberg ’90, chief curator at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art.
Alums in the Arts In addition to visits by practicing artists, the department, with the Bates College Museum of Art, presents talks by graduates now working in the field. These include Jason Goldman ’00, speaking on Beat artist Jay DeFeo; Joshua Holdeman ’93, international director of contemporary art at Christie’s; and Robin Reynolds Starr ’85, director of American and European
paintings and prints at the Boston auction house Skinner, Inc.
Presentations by Interns and Grant Awardees In the course of their work at Bates, students often receive internships at auction houses, galleries and such leading museums as Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum, Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, the Smithsonian, and in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection. These students, as well as Bates Museum of Art interns and students who have conducted independent projects off campus, describe their work in talks presented to the campus community and the public.
SPOTLIGHT RACHEL TOFEL ‘10 Rachel Tofel ‘10 says Bates offered opportunities that paved the way to her work in the director’s office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Faculty mentoring helped, too: Rebecca Corrie, art and visual culture chair, “pushed me to take a Met internship after graduating,” says Tofel. “Without the internship, I wouldn’t have a full-time position here now.”
The Museum of Art Bates
Nationally recognized for its exhibitions and collection, the Bates College Museum of Art provides access to noteworthy and compelling art from around the globe through temporary and permanent collection exhibitions. Combined with an innovative college and regional education program, the museum serves as a laboratory for the arts, engaging broad audiences across academic disciplines at Bates and across age groups in west-central Maine and well beyond. The Museum of Art organizes a diverse and interdisciplinary schedule of lectures and gallery talks with artists, scholars and critics; films; studio sessions; and internships. The museum is open to the public at no charge. Museum staff work collaboratively with artists, faculty, student interns and independent scholars to conceive, plan and implement innovative programs and relevant exhibitions. Plan to Attend
The Bates College Museum of Art is located in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. Except as noted, there is no charge for museum admission. Hours
10am–5pm Tuesday–Friday (until 6pm Wednesdays during the academic year). Learn more: 207-786-6158 • www.bates.edu/museum.xml • bit.ly/facebook-museum
Dialogue, a Video Series See Spotlight, below.
RELATED EVENTS Jan. 14 Opening Reception Friday at 6pm A reception for all three exhibitions.
Feb. 17 Artist Lecture by Rachel Perry Welty Thursday at 6pm Boston artist Rachel Perry Welty, featured in the Dialogue video series, discusses “Karaoke Wrong Number” and its relationship to her other work.
March 7 Bound to Art Discussion
Marsden Hartlley, Still Life with Eel, oil, c. 1917, gift of Mrs. William Carlos Williams. Collection of Ogunquit Museum of American Art
EXHIBITIONS: Jan. 14–March 25 Selections From the Collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art Curated by William Low Devoted exclusively to American art, the OMAA has a superb assortment of works by Maine-related artists and is recognized for its holdings in modern and contemporary art. The collection represents artists such as Romare Bearden, Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Louise Nevelson and Marguerite Zorach.
Bound to Art: Illustrated Books from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Curated by Kat Stefko, director of Archives and Special Collections This exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library taps the archives’ collection of rare books, from incunabula of printing’s earliest days to the revival of these techniques in today’s flourishing book arts movement. Bound to Art explores the dimensions through which the fine-book form can delight our eyes and inspire our minds.
SP OT L I G H T
Owner of the Voyage (2007), digital video, 16 minutes
DIALOGUE, A VIDEO SERIES Dan Mills, Museum of Art director since September, curates this series featuring prominent artists: Roy Villevoye and Jan Dietvorst of Amsterdam (detail, above), Rachel Perry Welty (Boston) and Christian Marclay (New York). Reflecting Bates’ fundamental dedication to good conversation and an open exchange of ideas, the videos explore notions of dialogue with humor, provocation and profundity.
Monday at 6pm The exhibition curator leads an informal conversation about books in the exhibition.
EXHIBITION: April 8–May 28 Annual Senior Exhibition Presenting the work of Bates studio art majors, the exhibition includes a wide variety of media and is the culminating event of participating students’ yearlong thesis project.
RELATED EVENT April 8 Opening Reception Friday at 6pm.
COMPELLING PROGRAMMING ENGAGES BATES COLLEGE AND THE REGIONAL COMMUNITY.
Lalla Essaydi meeting with one of many classes in the Museum of Art as a Learning Associate during her exhibition, Les Femmes du Maroc. The Museum of Art engages with faculty and students across disciplines through exhibitions, lectures and extended visits of artists and scholars as Learning Associates.
EXHIBITIONS: June 10–Sept. 11 Emerging Dis/order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Andrea Sulzer, Alison Hildreth Curated by William Low This ambitious installation is part of Where to Draw the Line: The Maine Drawing Project, a statewide collaboration among Maine museums and arts organizations featuring exhibitions celebrating
the medium of drawing throughout the 2011 calendar year.
Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth Curated by William Low and Victoria Wyeth ’01 An extraordinary exhibition of drawings and watercolors paintings by Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth, many of them never before exhibited. The collection includes personal correspondence between
Left, illustration by Ronald King. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Circle Press, 1978. Right, illustration by Giulio Casserio. De vocis auditusque organis, 1600–01.
Andrew Wyeth and his granddaughter, Victoria, during her time as a student at Bates.
RELATED EVENTS June 10 Opening Reception Friday at 4pm
EVENTS: ONGOING Life Drawing Sessions Wednesdays at 6pm during the academic year Models, drawing benches and drymedia easels are provided. $7 ($6 for museum members; free for Bates students). Bulk-admission discounts available.
Language Arts Live Bates
SHOWCASING ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING VOICES, LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE CELEBRATES THE DIVERSE VITALITIES OF TODAY’S POETRY AND FICTION.
Bates has a long tradition of welcoming poets and fiction writers to read from their work. In 1932 William Butler Yeats read from his poetry in the Chapel. The inimitable Bates professor-poet John Tagliabue brought many distinguished writers to campus, including Allen Ginsberg and Gwendolyn Brooks. Since 1991, the college has hosted readings, class visits and residencies by more than 75 authors, among them Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott; Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Muldoon, Donald Justice, Elizabeth Strout ’77, Yusef Komunyakaa and Richard Ford; Carolyn Forché, Grace Paley, Galway Kinnell, Marge Piercy and Sarah Manguso. Recent Bates alums have also returned
to read from their prize-winning first books: Jessica Anthony ’96, Christian Barter ’90, Gabriel Fried ’96 (see Spotlight, below) Christina Chiu ’91 and Craig Teicher ’01. Plan to Attend
Language Arts Live readings are open to the public free of charge. Learn more: 207-786-6326 • 207-786-6256 • rfarnswo@bates. edu • eosucha@bates.edu
FEBRUARY Feb. 10 Fiction Reading by Emily Barton Thursday at 7:30pm Novelist Emily Barton wrote Brookland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), and The Testament of Yves Gundron (same publisher,
2000). The New York Times named each a “Notable Book of the Year.” Awards and honors Barton has received include the Bard Fiction Prize, bestowed annually by Bard College to a writer under 40. Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
MARCH March 7 Poetry Reading by Major Jackson Monday at 7:30pm Major Jackson’s two collections of poetry are Hoops (Norton, 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His third volume of poetry, Holding Company, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Chase Hall Lounge
March 24 Poetry Reading by Aracelis Girmay Thursday at 7:30pm Aracelis Girmay received the GLCA New Writers Award for her first poetry collection, Teeth (Curbstone, 2007), which draws on the rich cultural inheritance of her family’s combined Eritrean, Puerto Rican and African-American roots. A second collection, Kingdom Animalia, is forthcoming this fall from BOA Editions. Chase Hall, Skelton Lounge
Date and location TBA Fiction Reading by Dinaw Mengestu 7:30pm Author of the new How to Read the Air (Riverhead), acclaimed Ethiopian novelist Dinaw Mengestu visits during Bates’ Short Term.
SP OT L I G H T GABRIEL FRIED ‘96 A poetry editor, teacher of writing and author of the prizewinning poetry collection Making the New Lamb Take (Sarabande, 2007), Gabriel Fried ‘96 “entered Bates with only a vague sense of my literary interests,” he says. “I left with the certainty that, one way or another, poetry was going to be central to my life.”
Arts Summit 2011: Jan. 24–25 The Bates Arts Collaborative spotlights creativity and the arts during its premiere Arts Summit, featuring visiting and Bates artists. The event will emphasize building bridges to community audiences and enhancing the campus environment for creating in the arts. The schedule was still in flux at press time, but here are confirmed events taking place in Schaeffer Theatre on Jan. 24: Monday at 4:15pm: Meet the Visiting Artists: Offering presentations about using the arts to develop audiences and for community and environmental stewardship are Lynne Conner, playwright, director and scholar; Amara Geffen, a visual artist with an environmental and community focus; and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a spoken-word performer, writer and hip hop dancer. Monday at 8pm: Staged reading of Red, Black and GREEN: A Blues: This new multidisciplinary work by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and his collaborators is designed, says Joseph, “to jump-start a conversation about environmental justice, social ecology and collective responsibility in the climate-change era.”
SUSANN PELLETIER
In addition, the visiting artists will hold meetings, class visits and workshops during their two days on campus. Student exhibitions, workshops and performances will take place throughout the week. Learn more: nsalmon@bates.edu • kread@bates.edu
More of the Arts at Bates Though Schaeffer Theatre and the Olin Arts Center are focal points, creativity at Bates is a campus-wide affair. A cappella singing is a long and beloved tradition at the College, dating back to the founding of the all-male Deansmen in 1957. The Manic Optimists are a second male ensemble, while the Crosstones and Takenote are co-ed, and the Merimanders, all women. An exciting recent addition to the roster of singing ensembles (if not strictly a cappella) is the Gospelaires. The Robinson Players, Bates’ student-run theater ensemble, represent an even longer Bates tradition. Founded in the early 1920s, this energetic organization offers everything theatrical from traditional musicals to avant-garde one-acts. The student-run radio station, WRBC-FM, is an expressive outlet for Bates broadcasters and volunteer DJs from Lewiston-Auburn. The station also sponsors concerts by Maine and national performers. Learn more: bit.ly/facebook-wrbc
OLEG WOOLF
Also bringing the best contemporary performers is the Chase Hall Committee, booking comedians, magicians and such diverse musicians as the Kinsey Sicks, Trey Anastasio, Guster and Snoop Dogg. Learn more: www.bates.edu/CHC.xml The CHC works with the Student Activities Office, whose own Village Club Series for the campus community showcases emerging comics and singer-songwriters. (Learn more: bit.ly/bates-sao) The Freewill Folk Society hosts monthly contradances (a traditional social dance form distinctive to the Northeast) and folk-music concerts. Student-edited publications provide contemplative venues for expression and reflection: SEED Magazine for word and image, the photography magazine Blonde and The Garnet, Bates’ student literary magazine since 1922. The arts are reflected, too, by College offices. Services organized by the Multifaith Chaplaincy regularly include performances. The Office of Intercultural Education sponsors arts events supporting its celebration of the many dimensions of diversity at Bates. And creative work is often showcased by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Learn more: Multifaith Chaplaincy, www.bates.edu/chaplaincy.xml • Office of Intercultural Education, • bit.ly/bates-oie • Harward Center, www.bates.edu/harward-center.xml
Summer Arts at Bates The creative spirit remains in force on campus during the beautiful Maine summer. In addition to the Bates College Museum of Art, which mounts a major exhibition every summer (see pages 9–10) and the renowned Bates Dance Festival (page 7), the Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series provides family-friendly live music in July and August. The Harward Center and the Bingham Betterment Fund co- sponsor these concerts on the shore of Lake Andrews, presenting the region’s best in folk, world music and jazz. Learn more: 207-786-6400.
LOTHAR QUINKENSTEIN
Poets from around the world who took part in the November 2010 Translations poetry festival. The festival was created by Associate Professor of Spanish Claudia Aburto Guzmán and presented by the language departments.
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