Virtual Exhibitions and Lectures

Please enjoy our several virtual exhibitions and related lectures that let you connect with the world of ideas we’ve brought to Bates since the onset of the pandemic. 

Virtual Exhibitions

Lesley Dill: Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me
An Adventurous Spirit: The Jane Costello Wellehan Collection
Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts
Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts
Joel Babb, Carl’s Path (detail), 2009, oil on canvas, 2020.1.1
Carl Benton Straub: His Enduring Legacy
Joseph Delaney, City Hall Picket Line Jobs Not Guns, 1936, pencil and gouache on paper, 19 x 19 inches
Joseph Delaney: Taking Notice
Let's Celebrate Ashley Bryan!
Let’s Celebrate Ashley Bryan!

Lectures and Panel Discussions

Lesley Dill photo George Woodman
“Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me” by artist Lesley Dill
Daniel Minter, All Night Long ‘till Dawn, n.d., oil on board, 2019.4.40
“Painters’ Panel Discussion” with artists Alan Bray, Linden Frederick, and Daniel Minter
Susan Dewsnap, Vase Form, 2013 high fire, soda-fired stoneware, slip, glazes and stain, 8 1/2 x 8 x 8 in. Bates College Museum of Art, Gift of Jane Costello Wellehan, 2019.4.61
“Ceramists’ Panel Discussion” with ceramists Mark Johnson and Sequoia Miller
“Marsden Hartley: Adventures in the Archives” by Emily Schuchardt Navratil, Ph.D., Curator, Vilcek Foundation
“Creating the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The How & Why, Challenges & Joys” by Gail R. Scott, Modern & contemporary art scholar & curator
“Love and Affection Despite this Hostile World” by artist Phyllis Bramson
Joseph Delaney, St Patricks Day Parade, 1961, oil on Masonite, 24 x 30 inches
“Joseph Delaney: Taking Notice” by Sam Yates, Director of the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, University of Tennessee
“Ashley Bryan” by poet Nikki Giovanni, with special guest Ashley Bryan
“Ashley Bryan in Context” panel discussion with Daniel Minter & Marcia Minter, Co-Founders, Indigo Arts Alliance, and Krista Aronson, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Psychology