TOM BURCKHARDT: Informal Worship Chairs My body looks like a

My body looks like a dancing tattoo

I recount meeting studious

Those few words about the "common good" taken from his inaugural message which are printed on the walls of the McKeen Center provided clues to the editor of this volume that some time in the Bowdoin College Archives might yield deeper insights into the ideas of this remarkable man

Morgan Edwards provides a window into not only his life

Brian Karas with the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow classic

TOM BURCKHARDT: Informal Worship Chairs My body looks like aArt by Tom Burckhardt with accompanying introduction by Elena Sisto The catalogue accompanies the exhibition Tom Burckhardt: Informal Worship, on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from May 23, 2024 through August 18, 2024. In 2020, artist Tom Burckhardt (American, born 1964) began to create ink and collage drawings on found book pages. Since then, he has created more than five hundred of these drawings. As an artist, Burckhardt has long been