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MORE OF THE ARTS AT BATES The arts at Bates radiate well beyond their vibrant center within the academic departments and the Olin Arts Center. Reflecting the College’s essential interest in enabling students to bring their best ideas to fruition, students have a vigorous and unencumbered role in Bates arts. The Chase Hall Committee is a powerhous e among student arts organizations, offering the best in cutting-edge performance, from comedians to magicians to such musical icons as Snoop Dogg, The Roots and Gogol Bordello. The CHC also has an eye for new talent: Joan Baez came in 1961, just before her second album went gold, and an ascendant Dave Matthews Band played Bates in 1995. The work of the CHC is supported by the Student Activities Office, whose own Village Club Series for the campus community showcases emerging comics and singer-songwriters from across the musical spectrum. The Freewill Folk Society hosts monthly contradances (a traditional social dance form distinctive to the Northeast) and folk concerts. The Robinson Players are among the nation’s oldest student-run theater organizations. Working closely with the theater department, this prolific troupe’s offerings run from traditional musicals to avant-garde one-acts. Under the aegis of the Art Commons, young artists, musicians and stage performers hone their craft in the wide-open spaces of Chase Hall’s Memorial Commons. Print and Web publications provide other avenues for expression and reflection: SEED Magazine is a venue for creative work in word and image, while The Garnet has been the student literary magazine since 1922. New in 2009 was Blonde, dedicated to photography made by Bates people. Also presenting pop, rock and roots performances is the student-run radio station, WRBC-FM, whose on-air presence is a creative outlet for both Bates people and local residents — forging an important link with the Lewiston-Auburn community. Learn more: bit.ly/facebook-wrbc

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DEPARTMENT OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

— Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President, Bates College

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showcase the vitality of the arts at Bates.

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

ulty and outstanding performers from around the world

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of performances in which our students, our talented fac-

THEATER AND DANCE

The public benefits too, through our full annual program

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experiences that are at once individual and collaborative.

MUSIC

both study and performance a wide array of learning

Event Type The color blocks at right match the bars below to indicate the event type. Admission Most of these events are open to the public at no cost. But there is an admission fee for events marked $. Buy tickets www.batestickets.com

Choices for Bates, Bates’ arts programs give students in

PLAN TO ATTEND

staff and students insisted in our recent strategic plan,

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formative, like all the best education. As Bates faculty, Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Wally Reinhardt: Collaborations With Ovid

Oct. 8–Dec. 20

Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective Landscapes of Maine: Then and Now Recent Acquisitions

Through Sept. 25:

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBITIONS

Global Lens Film Series, 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 105 $ Life Drawing Sessions, 6pm Wednesdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 259 $

ONGOING MUSEUM OF ART EVENTS

O N G O I N G A R T S E V E N T S FA L L 2010

Dec. 9, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Schaeffer Theatre

Dec. 8, 7:30pm, Voice and Speech Students, Gannett Theater

Dec. 8, 7pm, Bates College Jazz Band, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Dec. 5, 3pm, Pianist Frank Glazer Celebrates Robert Schumann, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Dec. 3-4, 8pm, Bates College Choir, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Nov. 29, 7pm, Artist Talk, Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art

Nov. 18, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Gannett Theater

Nov. 17, 7:30pm, Poetry and Memoir Reading by Ander Monson, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Nov. 15, 7:30pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 14, 7:30pm, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Nov. 14, 2pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 13, 7:30pm, Bates and Bowdoin Orchestra with Pianist Frank Glazer, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Nov. 13, 5pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 8, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 7, 2pm, Theater, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 6, 2 and 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Nov. 5, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $

Oct. 28, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading by Wesley McNair, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Oct. 17, 7:30pm, Avishai Cohen’s Aurora, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 17, 2pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater

Oct. 15–16, 7:30pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater

Oct. 13, 6pm, Artist Talk, Wally Reinhardt, Collaborations With Ovid, Bates College Museum of Art

Oct. 11, 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Debra Spark, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Oct. 10, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre

Oct. 9, 7:30pm, Bates Composers Society: The Rest Is Music, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall

Oct. 9, 3:30pm, Gallery Talk by Nick Capasso on Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art

Oct. 9, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre

Oct. 6, 7:30pm, Ensemble 415, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 3, 7:30pm, Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Oct. 1, 7:30pm, Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

Sept. 27, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading, by Marianne Boruch, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Sept. 22 , 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Courtney Eldridge, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

FALL CALENDAR OF ARTS EVENTS

— intense, rigorous, messy, energetic and utterly trans-

2010

The arts are a vital, dynamic daily presence at Bates

Welcome to the Arts at Bates! Where better to experience the excitement, the creativity and the transformative power of the arts than in an academic community such as Bates? Rich in people and programs devoted to the practice and understanding of the arts, Bates presents each year a vital array of opportunities to create, contemplate, critique and applaud the arts in all their diversity. Many of our students could have attended institutes or conservatories devoted solely to their preferred art form. But instead they came to Bates — drawn in by the liberal arts mission, a view of study, performance and art-making that strives to put an artistic life into a larger context. Having had the good fortune to experience the arts at Bates for 20 years, I now perceive the College and community as a landscape of cherished memories, a constellation of venues that call me, in great anticipation, back each season: • Skelton Lounge, where I attended poetry and fiction readings (one of which ended with the audience crouched on the floor for a mini puppet show) that provided me a summer’s worth of spectacular reading. • Lake Andrews, where in 2007 the Bates Dance Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary with Paradise Pond, a stunning site-specific work by PearsonWidrig DanceTheater. • The Chapel, where at a Multifaith Chaplaincy event, I was transported by a spectacular rendition of “The Flower Duet” from Léo Delibes’s opera Lakmé. One of the performers was a student of mine whose amazing musical talent had remained, until that moment, unknown to me. • A raucous Schaeffer Theatre on Asia Night where a largely “unofficial” arts community performed a loudly cheered repertoire culminating with a stage full of Bollywood wannabes leaping, shimmying and gyrating away in the much-anticipated finale. • A room in Pettengill Hall where honors student Emily Monty ’10, with enviable aplomb, defended her thesis on Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti’s bronze doors at the Baptistery in Florence, Italy. • Gannett Theater, where students I pass at the gym or in Commons re-enacted murderous scenes from the Greek tragedy Alcestis, wearing costumes by an immensely talented student of mine. Such is the map of just one person’s experience of the arts at Bates. And I am happy to say that it’s woefully inadequate to describe the full spectrum of spaces and events hereabouts where the arts thrive. Many of those opportunities appear in this publication. Many more will soon appear as determined by the vibrant academic agendas that a liberal arts campus such as Bates continues to imagine, day to day, semester to semester, and year to year.

Kirk Read Chair, Bates Arts Collaborative Associate Professor of French

Music Bates

Plan to Attend Listed concerts

THERE IS A WORLD OF MUSIC AT BATES. MUSIC DEPARTMENT

take place in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston.

ENSEMBLES INCLUDE A CONCERT CHOIR, A FULL ORCHESTRA, A

See a complete schedule: www.bates.edu/musicconcerts

FIDDLE BAND, A JAZZ BAND, THE STEEL PAN ORCHESTRA AND

Ticket prices list [general public] / [seniors and students]. Purchase seats for ticketed events: www.batestickets.com

THE DISTINCTIVE GAMELAN ORCHESTRA.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1 Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra Friday at 7:30pm Likened to a “peek into a curio shop from a hundred years ago” by the Village Voice, songwriter and playwright Ethan Lipton offers jazzy, musically spare, conversationally scripted songs about bicycles, life, death, guilt and pets. $10

Oct. 3 Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens Sunday at 7:30pm This highly acclaimed Brooklynbased band brings a soulful, gritty blend of gospel and R&B to the Olin Arts Center. The Bates Gospelaires, a student ensemble, open. Learn more:

The dancer Ening Rumbini and other guests join the Bates College Gamelan Orchestra in a 2009 concert.

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.

international renown, performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in 2009–2010. Guest artists have included songwriter Suzanne

Vega, Germany’s Auryn String Quartet, jazz visionaries Vijay Iyer and Pat Martino, and Wu Man, a virtuoso on China’s stringed pipa.

Bates students study Western and non-Western, classical and popular traditions. Department ensembles include a concert choir, the Bates College Orchestra, a fiddle band, a jazz band, the Caribbean-flavored Steel Pan Orchestra and Bates’ distinctive Gamelan Orchestra. The department offers one-on-one instruction in instrumental and vocal performance. Concerts reflect the local community and the world. Artist-inresidence Frank Glazer, a pianist of

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Oct. 6 Ensemble 415 Wednesday at 7:30pm Violinist Chiara Banchini leads this award-winning European early music ensemble in a program of chamber works and concerti of Tomaso Albinoni, Georg Muffat, Giovanni Albicastro and J. S. Bach. Learn more:

www.ensemble415.org $12/$6

Oct. 17 Avishai Cohen’s Aurora Sunday at 7:30pm After an amazing performance at Bates in 2008, Israeli bassist Cohen returns to the Olin Arts Center with his highly personal Aurora project. Complementing Cohen’s playing, Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens perform at Bates in October.

Béla Bartók and George Crumb. They share fascinations with folk song, arresting harmonies and unique sounds, but diverge in ways — Bartók’s craggy, strikingly etched aesthetic and Crumb’s magical, unearthly musical vision — that create a journey like no other. www.chambermusicsociety.org/ $12/$6

DECEMBER

Dec. 3–4 Bates College Choir Friday–Saturday at 8pm Conductor John Corrie leads the choir in a selection of opera choruses ranging from the famed and familiar to masterpieces deserving more attention. As always in the Bates choir, student soloists are selected by audition. Free admission, but tickets required

Dec. 8 Bates College Jazz Band CONCERTS REFLECT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD. Guest artists have included songwriter Suzanne Vega (above), Germany’s Auryn String Quartet, jazz visionaries Vijay Iyer and Pat Martino, and Wu Man, a virtuoso on China’s stringed pipa. singing and composing are vocalist Karen Malka, percussionist Itmar Doari and oudist Amos Hoffman. Learn more: www.avishaimusic.com $12/$6

and Wu Han and percussionists Daniel Druckman and Ayano Kataoka offer a program of works by a perfect combination of composers:

Wednesday at 7pm Led by jazz pianist Thomas Snow, student vocalists and instrumental soloists are featured in a program mixing big-band and small combo settings and musical styles such as bossa nova, funk, classic swing and standards. Free admission, but tickets required

NOVEMBER

Nov. 13 The Bates and Bowdoin College Orchestra With Pianist Frank Glazer Saturday at 7:30pm For the second consecutive season, the orchestras of Bates and Bowdoin colleges combine forces for a concert at each institution. Conducted by Hiroya Miura of the Bates faculty, the program’s featured work is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, with world-renowned pianist Frank Glazer as soloist. Free admission, but tickets required

Nov. 14 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Sunday at 7:30pm The quartet of pianists Gil Kalish

Performing with the Bates College Orchestra, Sophia Budianto ’09 performs the flute solo in Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

PROFILE COREY HARRIS ‘91 Roots musician Corey Harris ‘91 starred in the PBS documentary The Blues and received a MacArthur “genius grant.” During a 2008 Bates residency, Harris revealed both the passion that electrifies his music and the intellectual underpinnings that make it endure. He calls it “diaspora rock,” and it’s a passport of sorts. “I can travel with it,” he says, yet still feel at home.

Theater Bates

The Department of Theater and the student-run Robinson Players (see inside back cover) stage more than a dozen plays and performance events in our three theaters each year. Our productions run the gamut from Greek tragedy to narrative film; from contemporary performance art to Shakespeare; from Moliere to new American drama. Recent productions have included All the World’s a Grave, a “new Shakespeare play” by John Reed; the Pulitzer Prize-winning You Can’t Take It With You; and the Greek tragedy Alcestis, in the translation-adaptation by noted British poet Ted Hughes. Theater faculty are known for their work in the community as playwrights and filmmakers. Students act, direct, write plays and make movies. They design scenery and lighting. They work in our shops to build sets and design and sew costumes. Meanwhile, 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. Students can major in theater with a thesis project in narrative filmmaking. Courses in screenwriting and in acting and directing for the camera are offered on the Bates campus, and students can study away with industry professionals at the Maine Media Workshop and in London and Prague.

Caroline Servat ’10 performs a solo scene from Neil LaBute’s Bash, a 2010 production directed by Katalin Vecsey, lecturer in theater and the college’s vocal coach. See a complete schedule of theater department productions: www.batestickets.com Except as noted, admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for senior citizens and non-Bates students. Purchase tickets: www.batestickets.com For more informtion: 207-786-6161 • bit.ly/facebook-theater-dance

OCTOBER

Plan to Attend Performances

Oct. 15–17 Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire

take place in Schaeffer Theatre and the Black Box Theater, and in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall — all at 305 College St.

Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm For her independent study, Michelle Schloss ’12 directs this story of

an amnesiac who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must re-imprint the facts of her life — but one morning turns out to be different for the family. Free, no reservations Black Box Theater

NOVEMBER Nov. 5–8 Hotel Universe by Philip Barry

Friday at 7:30pm; Saturday at 2 and 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm; Monday at 7:30pm Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz directs this “arch, witty and delightful” American comedy of manners by the author of the sparkling film classic, The Philadelphia Story.

PROFILE SULOCHANA DISSANAYAKE ‘09 A Sri Lankan native, Sulo Dissanayake directed nine plays at Bates — including a mainstage production, usually reserved for a theater professor. The faculty, she says, offers an “intellectual freedom that makes you realize your potential.” A Watson Fellowship enabled Dissanayake to study theater in South Africa and Indonesia. For her, all the world truly is a stage.

Indiana University drama professor W. J. Meserve ’45 calls Barry “a meticulous craftsman and stylist in language,” while The New York Times described the play as “fun to watch.” Gannett Theater

Nov. 18 Directing-Class Projects Thursday at 7:30pm Plays from FUSION Theatre Company of Albuquerque, N.M., “the most polished theater in town,” founded by Dennis Gromelski ’88. Directed by students in Professor Paul Kuritz’s directing class. Free, no reservations Gannett Theater

DECEMBER Dec. 8 Voice and Speech Performance

Wednesday at 7:30pm Students in Katalin Vecsey’s voice and speech course perform their final project. Free, no reservations Gannett Theater

Dec. 9 Directing-Class Projects Thursday at 7:30pm See Nov. 18. Free, no reservations Schaeffer Theatre

A FIRST-RATE LIBERAL EDUCATION INHABITS THEATER AT BATES. IT COMBINES CRITICAL THINKING WITH CREATIVE ACTIVITY, WHILE REACHING INTO DISCIPLINES FOR THE STORIES AND SKILLS THAT BRING WORLDS TO LIFE ON STAGE.

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Kevin Chambers ’10 is Iago in the Bates theater department production of All the World’s a Grave.

Dance Bates PERFORMANCES, COURSES AND THE CELEBRATED BATES DANCE FESTIVAL MAKE DANCE A FOUR-SEASON ENDEAVOR AT BATES, AS WE AIM TO REFLECT A BROAD UNDERSTANDING OF ART AND CULTURE THROUGH THIS DYNAMIC MEDIUM. A dancer leaps during a Bates College Modern Dance Company performance.

Dance at Bates is a four-season activity, feeding student passion for dance with academic courses and performing opportunities during the school year and with professional training during the summer at the Bates Dance Festival (described at right). Through studio workshops or fully mounted stage 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 an understanding of art and culture through this discipline. We encourage choreographic exploration through original student work, while frequent visits from guest artists help us develop and perform an evolving contemporary repertory. Whether as a focus of academic study or a co-curricular way of life, Bates offers its students a wealth of opportunities in dance.

Plan to Attend Most dance program and Bates Dance Festival performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. For more information: 207-786-6161 • www.bates.edu/DANC.xml

OCTOBER

Oct. 9–10 Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert Friday and Saturday at noon This Parents & Family Weekend concert features choreography by Bates faculty and students. Free, no reservations Schaeffer Theatre

NOVEMBER

Nov. 13–15 Bates College Modern Dance Company Saturday at 5pm; Sunday at 2pm; Monday at 7:30pm Works by Monica Bill Barnes and others are performed by students in Dance Repertory Performance. Advanced Jazz Repertory students do a piece by Maine’s Debi Irons. Schaeffer Theatre $6/$3

THE BATES DANCE FESTIVAL The Bates Dance Festival is a nationally recognized presenter of world-class contemporary dance. Each summer the festival brings together an international community of choreographers, performers, educators and students to study, create new work and perform. The six-week season of public performances takes place in the intimately scaled Schaeffer Theatre. Inside Dance lectures offer insights that build audience appreciation for dance. Training programs for diverse age groups serve a total of 340 participants with diverse dance classes. The festival nurtures a cooperative atmosphere that encourages exploration and a creative exchange of ideas. Over the years renowned choreographers such as Rennie Harris, Doug Varone and Bebe Miller have built major works at Bates that have toured internationally to critical acclaim. A typical evening at the festival includes an Inside Dance talk followed by a stunning premiere of work by an artist such as David Dorfman, Kate Weare or Liz Lerman. Also on the schedule is the popular Musicians’ Concert and Moving in the Moment, an evening of improvisation for the whole family. The Festival Finale showcases new works created by the faculty and performed by our talented students. For more information: 207-786-6381 • dancefest@batesedu • www.batesdancefestival.org

Photo by Lois Greenfield A longtime favorite at the Bates Dance Festival, choreographer Bebe Miller brought her company to Lewiston in 2009 to perform Necessary Beauty.

PROFILE ALISSA HOROWITZ ‘08 Now teaching in New York, Alissa Horowit z ran wit h t he dance resources Bates of fered. Her senior t hesis explored dance as a form of political protest, culminating wit h campus per formances captured on video. “My passion for t he projec t came on like a tidal wave, knocking ever y t hing else out of t he way and absorbing me completely,” she says.

Art + Visual Culture Bates

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.

tion and A Series of Unfortunate Ideas, presented by the Visual Meaning class in the New Commons Building.

Artist Visits

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 world. While preparing students for careers throughout the field, we bring insight into current analytical practice and studio production to the larger college curriculum.

Artists invited to work with courses frequently offer public lectures as well. Recent visitors have included graphic designer Brandy Gibbs-Riley ’96, now on faculty at Colby-Sawyer College, and accomplished video artist Kate Gilmore ’97.

Lectures By Visiting Historians and Critics:

Lectures by visiting artists and historians, many of them alumni, are open to the public. Speakers have included video artist Kate Gilmore ’97, Christie’s director of contemporary art Joshua Holdeman ’93 and Helen Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curator of early Christian and Byzantine art.

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. For more information: 207-786-8212 • bit.ly/facebook-avc

TYPICAL EVENTS Autumn events are rooted in our teaching and, in contrast to our winter schedule, are announced at short notice. Please watch the Bates College events site (home.bates. edu/views/events/) and our Face-

Emma Scott ’10 chooses a print for exhibition in the Bates College Museum of Art. Art and visual culture majors study history and theory in class, but also work with original objects here at Bates and in other museums. Most participate in internships at leading museums and auction houses during their college summers. book fan page, bit.ly/facebook-avc, for announcements of lectures and exhibitions — including the following types of activity that are usually offered at the Olin Arts Center:

installations to introduce their work in progress to fellow students and the public.

Senior Thesis Open Studios

Students in a course often stage events and install work for public exhibition. Examples from 2009 include an installation marking the International Day of Climate Ac-

Senior majors in studio art begin working towards their April senior thesis exhibition in a fall class. They often organize open-studio

Class Work-In-Progress Installations

PROFILE CHRISTOPHER SOKOLOWSKI ‘90 Chris Sokolowski exemplifies t he wide range of careers open to ar t majors. He is a paper con ser vator at Har vard, accomplished in restoring and stabilizing historic ar tifac ts ravaged by time and t he elements. “Ar t conser vation is t hree fields braided toget her — studio ar t, ar t histor y and materials science,” he says. “I got a nice int roduc tion to all t hree at Bates.”

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 who provide public lectures. These have included talks by Helen C. Evans, curator of early Christian and Byzantine art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dorothy Glass, a professor at the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome and Susan L. Ward, art historian at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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 have included Jason Goldman ’00, speaking on Beat artist Jay DeFeo; and Thomas Denenberg ’90, chief curator at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art.

Presentations by Interns and Grant Awardees In the course of their work at Bates, students often receive internships at auction houses and galleries and at such leading museums as 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.

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.

Studio art major Sam Guilford ’10 prepares for the annual Senior Exhibition in his Olin Arts Center studio.

The Museum of Art Bates

THE MARSDEN HARTLEY MEMORIAL COLLECTION IS JUST ONE FACET OF THE BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WHERE BROAD AUDIENCES CAN EXPLORE SYNERGIES CREATED BY THE VISUAL ARTS WITHIN THE LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION.

The premier art venue for westcentral Maine and home to the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, the Bates College Museum of Art offers diverse exhibitions and educational outreach programming that draws on the best of contemporary art and the museum collection. A laboratory for the arts, the museum is an environment where broad audiences explore and discover synergies created by the visual arts across the academic disciplines of a liberal arts education. Museum staff work collaboratively with artists, faculty, student interns and independent scholars to conceive, plan and deliver innovative programs and relevant exhibitions. Through its collections, exhibitions, lectures, films, studio sessions and internships, the museum offers points of entry into the investigation of art production, theory, history and practice,through time and across the globe.

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). For more information: 207-786-6158 • www.bates.edu/museum.xml • bit.ly/facebook-museum

EXHIBITIONS: THROUGH SEPT. 25 Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective

Visitors enjoy the opening reception for an exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art.

Joseph Nicoletti, who has taught at Bates since 1981, is a vital force in representational painting in Maine, a creator of gorgeous, psychologically fraught still lifes and self-portraits. This exhibition features paintings and drawings from public and private collections and is accompanied by an illustrated catalog.

free for Bates students). Bulk-admision discounts are also available.

Global Lens Film Series Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm Organized by the Global Film Initiative, the series draws from cinematic talent around the planet, with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Ten feature-length films constitute the 2010 series. Learn more: www.globalfilm.org/ $5 (free for Bates students) Olin Arts Center, Room 105

OCTOBER Les Femmes du Maroc: Grand Odalisque (2008; detail), a chromogenic print by Lalla Essaydi.

Landscapes of Maine: Then and Now Drawn from the museum’s collection, this exhibition showcases Maine landscapes from 1880–1905 alongside landscapes from 100 years later, inviting contemplation of the evolution of Maine’s landscape and how artists approach it.

EVENTS: ONGOING Life Drawing Sessions Wednesdays during the academic year at 6 pm Models, drawing benches and dry media easels are provided. Olin Arts Center, Room 259 $7 ($6 for museum members and

Oct. 9 Les Femmes du Maroc: Gallery Talk and Opening Reception Saturday at 3:30pm Exhibition curator Nick Capasso of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park discusses Lalla Essaydi and the exhibition. Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Still Life after Bellini (2003; detail), an oil painting by Bates lecturer in art Joseph Nicoletti.

Artist Talk Saturday at 6pm Painter Wally Reinhardt discusses his exhibition Collaborations with Ovid and his exploration of the classical poet’s Metamorphoses. Olin Arts Center, Room 104

Oct. 13

Recent Acquisitions Recent additions to the collection highlighting gifts from alumni and friends of the museum, featuring works by Kiki Smith, William Pope.L, Bernard Langlais and others.

OCT. 8–DEC. 20 Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Les Femmes du Maroc features large-scale photographs and is adapted from Eugene Delacroix’s iconic Les Femmes d’Algiers of 1834. Essaydi is a Moroccan-born artist of international prominence whose work deals with women in Islamic society, Orientalism and art’s history.

Wally Reinhardt: Collaborations With Ovid Since the 1980s, Reinhardt has focused solely on paintings interpreting Ovid’s Metamorphoses, vividly bringing to life many favorite characters of classical mythology.

Bacchus Changes Sailors to Dolphins (detail; 2003), a painting in gouache by Wally Reinhardt from the exhibition Collaborations With Ovid.

PROFILE TAKAKO YAMAGUCHI ‘75 Painter Takako Yamaguchi and her classmates “interpreted the term ‘liberal arts’ quite literally as a license to study dance, literature, history and the rest of it — an exploration of the unknown,” she says. “Painting is what I found there.” Visiting campus last year, she says, “I was impressed by the museum and its commitment to contemporary art. It’s a great asset for students.”

Language Arts Live Bates

THE LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE SERIES CELEBRATES THE POETRY AND FICTION WRITERS WHO REVEAL BEAUTY AND MEANING IN OUR OWN STORIES.

poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice,” said fellow poet Robert Pinsky.

OCTOBER

Oct. 11 Fiction Reading by Debra Spark Monday at 7:30pm Debra Spark’s novels include The Ghost of Bridgetown (Graywolf, 2001) and 2009’s Good for the Jews (University of Michigan), in which her “prose is tight, funny, insightful and occasionally heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly).

Oct. 28 Poetry Reading by Wesley McNair

Literary events at Bates have included visits by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout ‘77, shown here during a local book signing.

Bates has a long tradition of welcoming writers to read from their work. For 30 years, Bates professor and poet John Tagliabue brought such noted writers to campus as Allen Ginsberg. Since 1991, when the College instituted a creative writing concentration within the English major, Bates has hosted more than 75 acclaimed poets and writers, among them Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott; Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Justice, Elizabeth Strout ’77 and Yusef Komunyakaa; Grace Paley, Marge Piercy and Sarah Manguso. Recent alums who have authored prizewinning debuts have also returned to read, such as Jessica Anthony ’96, Christina Chiu ’91 and Craig Teicher ’91.

Plan to Attend Open to the public free of charge, Language Arts Live readings take place in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. For more information: 207-786-6326 • 207-786-6256 • rfarnswo@bates.edu • eosucha@bates.edu

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 22 Fiction Reading by Courtney Eldridge Wednesday at 7:30pm Courtney Eldridge wrote the acclaimed short-story collection Unkempt (Mariner Books, 2005) and The Generosity of Women (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), a novel. Her work has appeared in numerous literary publications. “Eldridge creates dark chaotic worlds, then traps the

reader inside this space until they have read the last word, thereby becoming her collaborator,” said the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sept. 27 Poetry Reading by Marianne Boruch Monday at 7:30pm Marianne Boruch has won many awards for her six collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Grace, Fallen From (Wesleyan University Press, 2008). “Her

Thursday at 7:30pm Called by The Hartford Courant “one of the most inventive minds in American poetry,” Maine’s Wesley McNair has written or edited 18 books, the most recent of which is Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems (Godine, 2010). His awards include fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, and two from the National Endowment for the Arts.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 17 Reading by Ander Monson Wednesday at 7:30pm Ander Monson is the author of several poetry chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations, a website and five books — most recently the forthcoming poetry collection The Available World (Sarabande, 2010) and the nonfiction Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf, 2010). He lives and teaches in Tucson, Arizona.

PROFILE JESSICA ANTHONY ‘96 Author of the acclaimed 2009 debut novel The Convalescent, Jessica Anthony ‘96 found her powers of expression transformed by a Bates poetry course with Senior Lecturer Robert Farnsworth.“ Rob taught me the value of tightness and necessity, the primal life of the single word,” she says. “Bates gave me priceless bounty as a writer.”

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The arts are a vital, dynamic daily presence at Bates

— intense, rigorous, messy, energetic and utterly trans-

formative, like all the best education. As Bates faculty,

staff and students insisted in our recent strategic plan,

Choices for Bates, Bates’ arts programs give students in

both study and performance a wide array of learning

experiences that are at once individual and collaborative.

The public benefits too, through our full annual program

of performances in which our students, our talented fac-

ulty and outstanding performers from around the world

showcase the vitality of the arts at Bates.

— Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President, Bates College

FALL CALENDAR OF ARTS EVENTS

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Sept. 22 , 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Courtney Eldridge, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall Sept. 27, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading, by Marianne Boruch, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall Oct. 1, 7:30pm, Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $ Oct. 3, 7:30pm, Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $ Oct. 6, 7:30pm, Ensemble 415, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $ Oct. 9, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre Oct. 9, 3:30pm, Gallery Talk by Nick Capasso on Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art Oct. 9, 7:30pm, Bates Composers Society: The Rest Is Music, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Oct. 10, noon, Modern Dance Company: Parents & Family Weekend Concert, Schaeffer Theatre Oct. 11, 7:30pm, Fiction Reading by Debra Spark, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall Oct. 13, 6pm, Artist Talk, Wally Reinhardt, Collaborations With Ovid, Bates College Museum of Art Oct. 15–16, 7:30pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater Oct. 17, 2pm, Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, Black Box Theater Oct. 17, 7:30pm, Avishai Cohen’s Aurora, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $ Oct. 28, 7:30pm, Poetry Reading by Wesley McNair, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall Nov. 5, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $ Nov. 6, 2 and 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $ Nov. 7, 2pm, Theater, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $ Nov. 8, 7:30pm, Hotel Universe by Philip Barry, Gannett Theater $ Nov. 13, 5pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $ Nov. 13, 7:30pm, Bates and Bowdoin Orchestra with Pianist Frank Glazer, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Nov. 14, 2pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $ Nov. 14, 7:30pm, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall $

PLAN TO ATTEND

Nov. 15, 7:30pm, Bates College Modern Dance Company, Schaeffer Theatre $

Nov. 18, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Gannett Theater

MUSIC Updated schedule of Olin Concert Hall events: www.bates.edu/musicconcerts 207-786-6135 • olinarts@bates.edu • bit.ly/facebook-music

Nov. 17, 7:30pm, Poetry and Memoir Reading by Ander Monson, Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall

Nov. 29, 7pm, Artist Talk, Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc, Bates College Museum of Art Dec. 3-4, 8pm, Bates College Choir, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Dec. 5, 3pm, Pianist Frank Glazer Celebrates Robert Schumann, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Dec. 8, 7pm, Bates College Jazz Band, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall Dec. 8, 7:30pm, Voice and Speech Students, Gannett Theater Dec. 9, 7:30pm, Directing-Class Projects, Schaeffer Theatre

O N G O I N G A R T S E V E N T S FA L L 2010

THEATER AND DANCE Updated schedule of theater and dance productions: www.batestickets.com 207-786-6161 • bit.ly/facebook-theater-dance • www.bates.edu/DANC.xml

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART Museum hours: 10am–5pm Tuesday–Friday (until 6pm Wednesdays) 207-786-6158 • museum@bates.edu • www.bates.edu/museum.xml • bit.ly/facebook-museum

DEPARTMENT OF ART AND VISUAL CULTURE 207-786-8212 • bit.ly/facebook-avc

LANGUAGE ARTS LIVE 207-786-6256 • 207 786-6326 rfarnsworth@bates.edu • eosucha@bates.edu

ONGOING MUSEUM OF ART EVENTS Global Lens Film Series, 8pm Fridays and Saturdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 105 $ Life Drawing Sessions, 6pm Wednesdays, Olin Arts Center, Room 259 $

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBITIONS Through Sept. 25: Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective Landscapes of Maine: Then and Now Recent Acquisitions Oct. 8–Dec. 20 Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc Wally Reinhardt: Collaborations With Ovid

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The Hartley Elegies: The Berlin Series, KVF IX (detail), a 1991 serigraph by Robert Indiana.

Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen except where indicated. Cover: Acadian Spring, a 1990 woodcut by Charles Hewitt

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