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The Colby College Art Department includes both practicing artists and art historians of various academic and studio disciplines. With special studios for drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, the department features a curriculum that allows students not only to explore the intrinsic nature of materials and techniques but also to develop their own expressive abilities. Art history offerings are designed with the recognition that the artistic products of any period are essentially related to the social, political, and cultural concerns of that period. Students at Colby are able to approach art from both a practical and historical perspective and thus are better able to understand the total experience of art.

 
 

Upcoming Art Department lectures include:

James M. Carpenter Lecture: How Medieval Nuns Invented the Postcard with Kathryn Rudy, March 30th at 7:30 in Olin 1.

Curator's Tour:  From Salt-To-C-Prints, Thursday April 2 at 12:30 pm with Gary Green, Assistant Professor of Art at the Colby Museum of Art.

Lois Dodd, Painter, will speak Tuesday April 7, 2009 at 4:30 in Olin room 1.

Bradley Reichek '00 lecture entitled Kissing and Telling:  No Tomorrow (1812) and The Lovers (1958) and the Re-Telling of a One-Night Stand, 7 pm Wednesday April 15th in Given Auditorium. In conjunction with the lecture, a Film screening of Louis Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1958) will be held Tuesday April 14th at 7:30 pm in Given Auditorium.
Links to pdf versions of  Vivant Denon's novella No Tomorrow:
French versions 1777-1812
English version

An-My Lê, Photographer, will speak about her work on Tuesday April 21 in Olin 1 at 4:30 pm.

Duncan Hewitt, Sculptor, will speak on Wednesday April 22, Bixler 154, at 4:30.

John Coffer and the Tintype, Wednesday April 22, 12:30 pm with Laura Saltz, Assistant Professor of  Art and American Studies at the Colby Museum of Art.