Upcoming Exhibitions

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Monhegan’s history offers lessons for us all. This exhibition brings together artworks, objects and representations of ecological inquiry, and historical documents and photographs to chart forest conversion and recovery on the island.

Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now

Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now

, Center Gallery, Media Gallery, Focus Gallery, Rotunda

This exhibition features works of art that resist the rendering of human lives into objects of consumption, data sets, and/or algorithms. The exhibition touches on subjects from the recent and not-so-recent past, looking at how art helps build our capacity for empathy when our worldviews are often shaped by the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the Internet.

Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture

Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture

, Walker Gallery

Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean societies understood and depicted the natural world.