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In December, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art (BCMA), in collaboration with the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, will present an exhibition that looks anew at the history of Monhegan Island, Maine. Titled Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands, the exhibition will illuminate the Island’s extraordinary journey of environmental transformation and resilience from the close of the most recent ice age to the contemporary period, as seen through the eyes of the artists who depict the terrain and the scientists who study Monhegan’s dynamic ecology. The exhibition will feature a wide range artworks—from paintings by modernist artists such as Rockwell Kent and Edward Hopper, to contemporary pieces by Lynne Drexler and Barbara Putnam—alongside historical artifacts such as bone harpoon points and other objects created by Indigenous inhabitants, documents from the Island’s history, and scientific research on elements such as the human introduction, and subsequent removal, of first sheep and then deer. The exhibition will open at BCMA on December 12, 2024, and run through June 1, 2025.