ABOUT
Commemorating its 50th anniversary, this website was created to shed new light on the exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 1964. While critically acclaimed at the time, this seminal exhibition has not received significant attention. Like the exhibition, this website is a collaborative effort. Organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, this website brings this historic exhibition into the digital realm to continue its legacy.
Much of the content for this website was generated by undergraduate students in the course Race and Representation in American Art, taught by Assistant Professor Dana E. Byrd in Spring 2014. To contact the website's organizers for more information, write to: BCMA1964show@gmail.com
Related Events
BRIDGET R. COOKS, Associate Professor in the Program in African American Studies and Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
Double Consciousness: Remembering Black Images in American Struggles for Freedom
Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College
November 11, 2014 · 4:30 pm
In this talk, art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.
EXPLORE THE ORIGINAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Website Credits
Principal Editors
SARAH MONTROSS, Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Curatorial Fellow
DANA E. BYRD, Assistant Professor of Art History
JACK JEN GIESEKING, New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Digital and Computational Studies Initiative
Web Design
CODY STACK ’16, Lead Designer
Student Researchers
Shannon Brady ‘16
James Denison ‘14
Auburn Gonzales ‘15
Taylor Guiffre '14
Amanda Montenegro ‘14
Alexandra N’Diaye ‘15
Alex Pigott ‘14
Anna Prohl ‘14
Emily Stewart ‘16
Elisabeth Strayer ‘15
Gretchen Williams ‘14
Special thanks to Museum, Library, and Art History staff
REBEKAH BEAULIEU, Assistant Director of Operations
SUZANNE BERGERON, Assistant Director of Communications
JENNIFER EDWARDS, Curator of Visual Resources
ANNE GOODYEAR, Co-director of the Museum
FRANK GOODYEAR, Co-director of the Museum
TIM HANSON, Manager of Museum Security Operations
MICHELLE HENNING, Assistant to the Registrar
JO HLUSKA, Assistant Preparator
JESSICA HOLLEY '15, Student Assistant to the Curator
JOACHIM HOMANN, Curator
LAURA LATMAN, Registrar and Collections Manager
RICHARD LINDEMANN, Director, Special Collections & Archives at Bowdoin College
LIZA NELSON, Shop Manager
JOSÉ RIBAS, Preparator
ANDREA ROSEN, Curatorial Assistant
THIS DIGITAL INITIATIVE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION.