On December 13th, 2024 the Bates College Museum of Art will be hosting a Continued Education Credits workshop for local teachers in the Benjamin Mays…

Come to the Mays Center to print your own holiday card during the Printmaking Workshop. All materials are provided, signup ahead of time is required…

Please join us for a reception in the Museum to see our new Fall exhibitions! Light refreshment will be provided. The reception will be preceded…

Please join us for a panel discussion with four artists featured in the new Across Common Grounds exhibition will discuss the challenges and advantages of living and…

Ever thought about what it would be like to work in an art museum? Join the Curator of Education, Anthony Shostak, and our new Assistant…

Join us for a reception hosted by the Dean of Faculty to wish Dan well in his retirement, and take a moment to enjoy the current…

Do you need a midweek pick-me-up?  Free coffee drinks from Espresso Dave will be available at the Bates College Museum of art between 4:00-6:00pm on…

Please join us for a closer look at three photographs by artist and photojournalist Donna Ferrato, guided by Assistant Education Curator Morgan Hough.

Join us for visiting artist Eda Čufer in discussion with Marina Filipovic, Visiting Lecturer in Russian at Bates. Their talk will encompass subject matter relating…

Welcome back to campus! Join us for a reception in the Museum to see the exhibitions that opened over the summer and reconnect with friends…

Learn more about the brilliant, witty, inventive, and cerebral artist, known internationally for six decades of The New Yorker Covers and illustrations, in this lecture by exhibition…

Please join us for the opening of Hartley | Hopper: Drawings from Two New England Collections and Saul Steinberg: Brilliant Witty Inventive Cerebral during this…

Join us at the museum to hear from some of the artists represented in the Senior Thesis Exhibition about their artistic process. Light refreshments will…

Please join the Museum of Art and the department of Art and Visual culture in celebrating the opening of the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition, highlighting…

* * UPDATE: Monday, March 11 – Both sessions are now sold out. Thank you all for your interest! * * Friday, March 15th at…

Please join us for a lecture from Art and Visual Culture and Asian Studies Professor Trian Nguyen. Nguyen will lecture on his research of Yao…

In anticipation of the the Literary Arts Live talk by Morgan Talty on April 4, a group discussion of his book Night of the Living…

Immerse yourself in a wide variety of Indigenous short films alongside Bates Museum of Art’s current exhibition Exploding Native Inevitable (on view through March 4).…

Looking for a chance to destress or make a last minute valentine? Come down to the Museum for our next Museum Art Café! Make fun art…

Are you a graduating senior interested in a career in museum education or a related field? Come learn about the Assistant Education Curator of Academic and…

Please join us on February 2 when video and sound artist, photographer, and writer Sky Hopinka will discuss his work in a lecture presented by…

Department of Theater and Dance Event Page Rosy Simas (Seneca, Heron Clan) will share and overview of her transdisciplinary practice, and discuss her current installation…

Looking for a space to relax and get in from the cold? Come down to the Museum for the first Museum Art Café of the…

Please join us for welcoming remarks by curators Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills, and performances and screenings of several video shorts by artists in the Exploding Native…