On November 14, 2012, Véronique Plesch, Professor of Art at Colby College, gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art about the exhibition Hidden Histories: A Project by Maggie Libby entitled "Colby's 'Herstory': Maggie Libby's Hidden Histories."

On November 7, 2012, Steve Evans, Director of the National Poetry Foundation, coordinator of the New Writing Series, and Professor of poetry and poetics at the University of Maine, gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art entitled "People of the World: Relax! Summering with Joe Brainard and Alex Katz."

On September 20, 2012, James R. Fleming, Professor and Director of the Science, Technology, Society Program gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art entitled "Skyscapes and Anti-Skyscapes."

On April 11, 2012, Hollis Griffin, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art about the video art of Dara Birnbaum entitled "I Was Wonder Woman: On the Video Art of Dara Birnbaum."

On March 28, 2012, Man Xu, a Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art entitled "Exploring a Chinese Official Appointment Scroll."

On February 29, 2012, President William D. Adams gave a Noontime Art Talk at the Colby College Museum of Art focusing on his curatorial experience surrounding Rediscoveries 2.