Academic Facilities
The Colby Art department is located in the Bixler building on Colby's campus. The building houses multimedia classrooms as well as six fully equiped fine art studios. Also located in Bixler is Given Auditorium, one of the largest performance and lecture halls on Colby's campus. The Bixler Art and Music Library contains over 60,000 print publications as well as an extensive collection of video and sound recordings. Recently added to the library's collection are over 500 hours of artists talks from the Skowhegan Lecture Archive. These talks are available for checkout on compact disk. The Bixler Library includes the Art Department Slide Library, an image resource center with over 118,000 slides as well as digital and analog image replicating equipment. The Slide Library is a resource for both student and faculty research, with its collection reaching throughout history and across cultures. The art department also shares its building with the Colby College Museum of Art, Maine's largest art museum. The museum hosts a a variety of travelling shows throughout the year in addition to housing an exemplary collection of American art. Included in the museum's collection are more than 400 works by Alex Katz as well as the collection of Peter and Paula Lunder. One semester every two years the museum hosts the Joan Whitney Payson Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. |
