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Held on museum terrace (in the case of rain, will be held in the pavilion)

Artist Byron Kim delivers the keynote address to open the major summer exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, This is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Kim's work is included in the exhibition. His remarks will be followed by a discussion with the exhibition co-curators, Anne Collins Goodyear, Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, and Jonathan Frederick Walz. A reception and family activities will follow to open the exhibition. Location: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. Open to the public free of charge.

Reception and Family Activities to celebrate the exhibition This is a Portrait If I Say So. Featuring works of art by leading American artists from Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, to Robert Rauschenberg and Yoko Ono, to Roni Horne and Glenn Ligon, this timely and groundbreaking exhibition reimagines portraiture and the very way we see ourselves and others. Location: Museum Terrace (rain location: Museum Pavilion). Free and open to the public.

Thursday Night Salon: Anne Collins Goodyear on 'Contemporary Art and Identity.' Anne Collins Goodyear, catalogue essayist and co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, leads a gallery talk about contemporary art and identity, presented in conjunction with the major exhibition, 'This is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.' Location: Museum pavilion. Free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk: Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo on 'Unconventional Portraiture in the 1960s.' Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, catalogue essayist and independent scholar, leads a discussion of unconventional portraiture in the 1960s in conjunction with the exhibition, 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.' Location: Museum pavilion. Free and open to the public.

Celebrate summer at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Co-curators Anne Collins Goodyear, Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, and Johathan Frederick Walz, will describe the making of the exhibition 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today' with refreshments al fresco (weather permitting). Location: Museum pavilion. Free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk: Jonathan Frederick Walz on "Portraiture Abstraction" Exhibition co-curator Jonathan Frederick Walz, catalogue essayist and Chief Curator of American art at the Columbus Museum, leads a discussion of portraiture abstraction the early twentieth century. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.' Location: Museum pavilion. Free and open to the public.