Stories about "Arts"

As the multitalented stage manager for ‘The Seagull,’ Sophie Hafter ’25 barks up the right trees
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 10:00 am
It’s winter, but birch trees have sprouted in Schaeffer Theatre — crafted by stage manager Sophie Hafter '25, whose scenic artistry helps "The Seagull" glide between realism and the avant-garde.

Slideshow: Hour by hour on MLK Day 2025 with Bates faculty, staff, students, and friends
Friday, January 24, 2025 11:20 am
This year’s MLK Day celebration, themed “Bending Toward Justice: Peace and Nonviolence,”…

At a Lewiston clubhouse, a musical performance that’s ‘less about perfection, and more about connecting’
Friday, November 1, 2024 1:24 pm
Two Bates students and a newly appointed professor of music helped to bring the soothing beauty of music, through piano and voice, to an audience at the Looking Ahead Clubhouse, a vocational center in Lewiston for adults living with mental illness.

Bates Alumni and Students in the News: Nov. 1, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024 12:14 pm
This edition’s items include a new documentary celebrating civil rights leader Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, astonishing art sales by painter Takako Yamaguchi ’75, and humanitarian efforts by Army veteran Christine Quinn Antal ’98.

Picture Story: A new wave of public art in downtown Lewiston
Friday, September 13, 2024 2:48 pm
Colorful, surprising, and shared by all, a new wave of downtown public art builds community in Lewiston.

Slideshow: This Summer at Bates
Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:04 am
When it comes to this summer at Bates, life flows on — gently and purposefully, and steadily preparing for the new year to come.

In Gomes Chapel, a Buddhist healing ritual grows, one grain of sand at a time
Friday, June 28, 2024 11:50 am
Created in Gomes Chapel this week by Tibetan nuns, the colorful, exquisite sand mandala will be dissolved into Lake Andrews, but its healing energy will remain.

From ‘Rugrats’ to 50th Reunion, Norton Virgien ’74 traces his career as a Hollywood animator
Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:21 am
"My career has alternated between projects that I've loved, and time looking for the next project that I'm going to love,” said Virgien, an award-winning TV and fiml animator, this year's Distinguished Alumnus in Residence and a member of the 50th Reunion class returning to Bates this weekend.

Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2024, and a Bates class that found its common humanity
Friday, May 31, 2024 12:33 pm
This immersive photographic display captures Bates' distinctive Baccalaureate Service. Far from serious or somber, it is a "celebration that is particular to each graduating class," said President Garry W. Jenkins.

70 years after his Bates honorary degree, William Grant Still ‘returns’ for inauguration
Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:40 am
Still, who received an honorary degree from Bates 70 years ago and whose music will be performed May 4 during the installation of Bates President Jenkins, was known as the dean of African American composers.