January 30, 2014 | 4:30 p.m. | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center<\/p>\n
\u201cStone, Wood, Printing Press: Remembering (Almost) Forgotten Crafts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n To celebrate the exhibition The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections<\/i>, three makers who practice rare crafts speak about their relationships to objects. Peter Follensbee is a woodcarver who reproduces seventeenth-century woodcarvings, such as Bowdoin\u2019s Great Joined Chair<\/i>. Stonecarver Simon Verity, who has worked on Gothic churches such as St. John The Divine in New York City, attempts to unravel early technique in a sculpture from the Bowdoin collection. Martha Finney is an artist who hand-writes with type, experimenting with printmaking techniques, words and numbers, and ancient secret codes. Her work Weathering<\/i> is included in The Object Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n January 30, 2014 | 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Winter Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art<\/strong><\/p>\n Celebrate the beginning of the spring semester and the exhibition The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n February 20, 2014 | 12 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art<\/p>\n \u201cMultiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Tess Chakkalakal, associate professor of Africana studies and English, and John Cross, secretary of development and college relations, lead an interdisciplinary discussion of select works in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections.<\/i> First in a series of three gallery talks during the spring semester.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 25, 2014 | 12 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art<\/p>\n Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Susan Kaplan, professor of anthropology and director of Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, leads a discussion of select works in the exhibition. Second in a series of three gallery talks during the Spring 2014 semester.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n April 17, 2014 | 12 noon | Bowdoin College Museum of Art<\/p>\n Multiple Perspectives in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Susan Wegner, associate professor of art history, and Nathaniel Wheelwright, professor of natural sciences, lead an interdisciplinary discussion of select works in The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections. <\/i>Third in a series of three gallery talks during the Spring 2014 semester.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n April 30, 2014 | 4:30 p.m. | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center<\/p>\n \u201cThe Smithsonian\u2019s History of America in 101 Objects\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution will discuss objects in the Smithsonian\u2019s collections, such as the Star-Spangled Banner, Lincoln\u2019s hat, Bell\u2019s telephone, Armstrong\u2019s trumpet, Warhol\u2019s Marilyn Monroe<\/i>, and even the National Zoo\u2019s pandas to weave an engaging history of our nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 30, 2014 | 4:30 p.m. | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center \u201cStone, Wood, Printing Press: Remembering (Almost) Forgotten Crafts\u201d To celebrate the exhibition The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections, three makers who practice rare crafts speak about their relationships to objects. Peter Follensbee is a woodcarver who reproduces seventeenth-century woodcarvings, such as Bowdoin\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-247","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/a-world-of-objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}