Courtesy of the Visual Arts DepartmentReid Brawer ’21, piece for Sculpture II: Drawung Through Sculpture Experiment. The Bowdoin visual arts department hopes to showcase student artwork and spark conversation through their new Instagram account. The account, which has been in operation since October, is administered by Colleen Kinsella, visual arts technician, along with Teaching Assistants Sarah Flanagan ’21, Lizzy Gracey ’22 and Abby Wang ’23. Carrie Scanga, chair of the visual arts department and associate professor of art, hopes this new platform will connect student artists who are working across the country and the world during the fall semester. The account features pictures of self-selected works by students, along with written statements about each piece. “It’s kind of a virtual hallway. It’s like everything that we would do in that hallway of the Edwards [Center for Art and Dance]” Scanga said in a Zoom interview with the Orient. “It’s every conversation and activity that happens in our very active hallways… So it was a way to replicate that really valuable piece of learning that happens in our Edwards building that can’t be happening during an online remote semester.” While the department had considered creating an Instagram for many years, the…
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Instagram account gives Visual Arts Department and students a platform
