February 27 2019 Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities Mark Dion 7:00 p.m., Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to...
Paul Discoe is a designer and innovator who acts as the managing partner for O2 Artisans Aggregate (O2AA), an urban industrial ecopark in Oakland, California. He is also a design consultant for Japanese style temples, restaurants, houses and furniture. His studio at O2AA includes a small workshop for prototypes and one-of-a-kind objects, and handles repairs...
Lecture by Augustto Cipriani from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Over the past decade, a new aesthetic phenomenon has taken place in Brazilian arts and literature, which has become an decisive feature of contemporary poetry and visual arts and which consists in a constant merging of image and word, in particular through handwritten...
The first one by Howie Gao ’22 for WP115, First-Year Writing: Writing about Writing, taught by Meghan Lynne Hancock. The Modern Technologies in Art Museums https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FHm8JA9-lA91J9JbBFkvhsi0QmxfUIEI And the second by Hannah Southwick ’21 for CI248 Digital Publishing: Telling Stories Online, taught by Erin E. Murphy. Inked Insights: A journey through the introspective art of tattooing https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=0dd8656b95ea4f46b7dce05c3e66fbae
Garry Mitchell, deemed “an excellent painter,” was included in a Portland Press Herald arts review about Maine’s 2018 arts scene. Garry, associate professor of art, topped the list for “his elegant and poignant show at Speedwell Projects.” Photo courtesy of Garry Mitchell
Tanya Sheehan (William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art) has published an article in the journal Panorama on Thomas Le Clear’s High, Jack, Game. This genre painting depicts two Irish newspaper boys engrossed in a card game called Seven Up as an African American whitewasher dressed in a mismatched military uniform observes their play. Sheehan’s article follows the...
In her new book, Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor (Penn State Press, 2018), Tanya Sheehan (William R. Kenan Jr. associate professor of Art) explores how photographic humor was used in the United States and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights. Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a...
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center Join Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and her students in AR474, Graffiti, Past and Present for a screening of Basquiat, the 1996 film by Julian Schnabel. This will be followed by a double feature of films on graffiti at Railroad Square Cinema Nov....
Railroad Square Cinema November 15, 2018 at 7:15 p.m. Admission is free! A double feature of recent documentaries about contemporary art, street graffiti, and the connections between them, screened in conjunction with Colby’s Art Department course AR474, Graffiti, Past and Present. Professor of Art Véronique Plesch will give a brief introduction. Boom For Real: The...
Faculty Fellow in American Art Juliet Sperling presented research at the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) Fifth Biennial Symposium in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Sperling’s talk, “David Claypoole Johnston and the Art of Interrupted Circulation,” explored how nineteenth-century American printmakers dealt with financial crisis through the material formats of their art.
