We know that COA is a mission-driven institution. This mission flourishes in the hearts and minds of every member of the COA community. We care. We inquire. We persist. Each issue of COA reflects the pursuits, activities, and ethos of the COA community.

Latest from the COA Magazine

  • NEWS
    Black bodies
    The history of Blacks in Maine is very much a story about Whiteness: its endurance, its entitlement, the ultimate disadvantage of its oneness. In 1790, Maine was 98 percent white. While the rest of the nation morphed and diversified into ever new incarnations of diversity, Maine has essentially stood still.
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    Q&A: The American Sublime

    Team taught by arts faculty members Catherine Clinger, The Allan Stone Chair in the Visual Arts, and professor of drawing and painting Sean Foley, Journey into Substance is a three-course expeditionary program located in physical and cultural landscapes.  Through curated immersive experience, students explore the concepts of beauty, wonder, and the sublime in the context of 19th Century American landscape art. 

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    Pretzel Logic
    College of the Atlantic James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity Dr. Jamie McKown and math professor David Feldman explain the twisted reasoning behind Gerrymandering, a process of manipulating voting districts that has become a way for politicians to shape the vote in their favor.
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    Epitomizing DIY: How a Zine Collection Began at College of the Atlantic
    Even Jasmine Bourgeois ’17, the New Hampshire native who started College of the Atlantic’s zine collection, hadn’t heard the term until her sophomore year, when she stumbled upon zines while working on an independent study about underground feminist art. But as Jane Hultberg, the director of the Thorndike Library says, “anyone who creates a zine is ‘transforming thought into action to make a difference in the world,’” and as such, Bourgeois had found a medium that is right at home at COA.
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    This three-course expeditionary program gives COA students an opportunity to experience first-han...
    Exploring The Great West
    Ecology and Natural History of the American West is an intensive, field-based expeditionary program which takes students from Oregon to New Mexico and everywhere in between, giving them a fully immersive experience in the habitats and landscapes of the Western United States.
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    Dru Colbert, 2017, found object assemblage, digital print. As a part of her current studio work, ...
    The Questions We Ask

    COA’s mission is to inquire, to delve, to care, to create. These are not just words on paper. They flourish within the hearts and minds of every member of the COA community. We asked several members of the COA faculty what questions they asked. Here are their responses.

  • NEWS
    Mike Bills walks along the Searsport, Maine shore, not far from his home.
    Something Good Will Come of This
    THE QUESTION: Who are Maine’s opiate addicts?
    THE RESPONSE: Something Good Will Come of This, a documentary film