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sign up today—it's free! On This Day1798 — Boards approve a 50-foot by 40-foot, three-story building, which would be finished in 1802 and be named Massachusetts Hall. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. | The annual talent show put on by the International Club provides a rare chance to listen to instruments unfamiliar to many or to discover students’ hidden gifts. This year, the four performances in the Daggett Lounge included a gentle song played on a Chinese bamboo flute and four-stringed Chinese lute and an energetic martial-arts dance. The evening also included a catered meal, with Indian, Chinese, Thai and Japanese food provided by downtown restaurants. The event is part of International Week, organized by members of the student club.  Dana Glazer '92. Illustration by Chelee Ross '12. This profile originally appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Bowdoin magazine. Bowdoin major: History Current residence: Ridgewood, New Jersey Bowdoin connections: My father, Martin, is a member of the Class of ’68. My parents married in the Chapel and lived during my dad’s senior year at the Chamberlain house. Web: www.evolutionofdad.com Continue reading Profile: Dana Glazer ’92 (Bowdoin Magazine) Composer Carl Ruggles was 90 years old — and his music all but forgotten — in 1966, when the College gave him an honorary degree and put on a weekend festival devoted to his music. “It was one of the very last Bowdoin Biennial Institutes,” recalls Elliott Schwartz, Bowdoin’s Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus, who calls Ruggles one of the great figures of the early 20th century.  Left: Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Jean Martinon receives congratulations from President James Coles at the premiere performance of Carl Ruggles' "Sun-Treader." Right: Professors Robert Beckwith, John Rogers and Elliott Schwartz prepare for the Carl Ruggles Festival. Images from 1966 Bowdoin Bugle. The Boston Symphony Orchestra was hired by Bowdoin to perform a concert that would include the U.S. premiere of Ruggles’ 1931 masterpiece “Sun-Treader,” says Schwartz who adds that the concert took place in Portland and also comprised music by Richard Strauss and Felix Mendelssohn. Now, all these years later, new life has been breathed into Ruggles’ music. The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles, originally released in 1980 (nine years after his death), has for the first time been reissued on CD, heralded by a glowing review in The New York Times, and Elliott Schwarz couldn’t be prouder. ”As someone who was directly involved in the 1966 Ruggles Institute, I want to make sure future scholars and historians recognize Bowdoin’s role in the revival of this wonderful music — and it really is very special.”  Mark Wethli Acclaimed artist Mark Wethli, Bowdoin’s A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, ventured to Paris for his latest opening and was met by familiar faces from the Bowdoin community. Wethli’s abstract art has been featured in exhibits across the U.S., from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the Realist Gallery in San Francisco. His latest launch at the ParisCONCRET gallery drew members of the art community as well as Craig Bradley, former dean of student affairs, and his daughters, one of whom is a member of the Class of 2016. See images of Wethli’s recent work and pictures from the Paris opening.  Stephen Hannock '76 stands before his painting "Oxbow for Bowdoin College," a gift from the artist on the occasion of the Museum of Art's renovation and re-opening in 2007. Artist Stephen Hannock ’74, internationally known for his luminous and atmospheric landscape paintings of flooded rivers, Whistleresque rockets launched into the sky, as well as his depiction of the Connecticut River Oxbow, is the subject of a solo exhibition at New York City’s Marlborough Gallery. Recent Paintings: Vistas with Text opened last week and continues until June 2, 2012. Paintings include an 8 x 20 feet depiction of Niagara Falls and a 6 x 9 feet Oxbow work finished with Hannock’s signature technique of polishing the surface of his paintings — with a power sander. Driven by dueling passions for photography and Saab automobiles, artist Dan Dowd, whose day job is that of security guard at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, has created a body of work that is part of Light, Motion, Sound 2012, a collaborative exhibition by the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.  (L. to r.) Matt Marr '13, Peter Coviello and Aaron Kitch in front of Quinby House in an image from "Projekt 900" by Dan Dowd. Dowd’s photographic composition includes a catalog he produced based on a 1963 Saab brochure featuring a “new retro SAAB 900 Turbo offering” and the first opportunity for the public to see the vehicle in person. In addition to the Swedish automobile, photographs feature Professor of English Peter Coviello, Associate Professor English Aaron Kitch and Matt Marr ’13. The show opens today, May 1, at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and runs through June 17, 2012.  Before Bowdoin senior Sarah Glaser left to study in Ghana the fall of 2010, she had the foresight to apply for a Bowdoin grant that would help her establish a business while she was abroad.
She applied for and was granted the Thomas Andrew McKinley ’06 Entrepreneur Grant, which provided her $5,000 to live in Ghana and set up African Art Stands, an import/export nonprofit. She spent the spring semester making contacts with artists, collecting art, and shipping the pieces back to Alaska, her home state, where she planned to sell them at galleries. Continue reading Bowdoin Entreprenuers: The Social Enterpreneur  Adam Bock '84 Playwright Adam Bock ’84 has been awarded a 2012 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Bock won an Obie Award in 2006 for his play “The Thugs,” and was nominated for two 2007-2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards. In 2006, the New York Times described “The Thugs,” as “a delightfully paranoid little nightmare that is both more chillingly realistic and pointedly absurd than anything John Grisham ever dreamed up.” Excitement is building for the upcoming Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition William Wegman: Hello Nature, opening July 13, 2012. President Barry Mills, Museum of Art Director Kevin Salatino, and Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd recently joined Wegman — and Weimaraners Bobbin, Candy, and Flo — for a press preview of the exhibition held at the artist’s studio in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. Stephanie Strasnick, an editorial intern at ARTnews magazine, was also on hand and shares experiences of the gathering on her blog, Articulate. | Bowdoin Athletics 5/13/2012 Women's Tennis Recap5/12/2012 Women's Tennis Recap5/12/2012 Women's Track & Field at Ind. Results Open New England's (MIT) | Recap 5/17/2012 Men's Track & Field at ECAC Championship (RPI) 5/17/2012 Women's Track & Field at ECAC Championship (RPI) 5/21/2012 Men's Tennis Bowdoin at Williams Live stats5/21/2012 Women's Tennis Bowdoin at Emory 5/24/2012 Men's Track & Field at NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship (Claremont) 5/24/2012 Women's Track & Field at NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship (Claremont) |
