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  • L’ARTIERE TALKS – GARY GREEN IN CONVERSATION WITH PHOTOGRAPH MAGAZINE’S EDITOR, JEAN DYKSTRA
  • Urbanautica interviews Green, talks teaching, photography, and beauty
  • Plesch invited to deliver guest lecture at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
  • Plesch contributes chapter to Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World
  • Noah Charney ’02 to give talk on “The Provenance Trap: Understanding the Modus Operandi of Art Forgers.”
  • Gary Vikan to give a talk on his recent book “The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death.”
  • Ameri Awarded Lang Fellowship at Rare Book School
  • Plesch delivers Lecture on Bronze Medallions
  • Green interview with Photography Critic Feuerhelm now online
  • Sheehan contributes to book, “The Colors of Photography”
  • Green interviewed by online magazine Landscape Stories about his photography
  • Plesch contributes to Maine Arts Journal Winter 2021 Issue
  • Sheehan Discusses Her Smithsonian Editorship in Roundtable Discussion
  • Green in conversation with the Bakery Photo Collective to discuss his two new books
  • Plesch participates in workshop organized by École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
  • Ameri’s student in W1 made a discovery!
  • Olivia Hochstadt and Whitney White are nominees for the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship 2021
  • Instagram Interview – Gary Green in Conversation with Photobook Cafe in London
  • Vanity Fair France Prints Gary Green Photographs
  • Plesch in Conversation with Artist Abby Shahn for SPEEDWELL Live!
  • Plesch Contributes to Podcast Series “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in our Time”
  • Summer and Fall Issues of the Maine Arts Journal – Articles by Editor Véronique Plesch and by Maggie Libby
  • Plesch to give virtual talk to the Medieval Reading Group at the University of Dundee, Scotland.
  • Photographs by Green Included in Italian Exhibition
  • Sheehan Contributes Essay to New Book on Zealy Daguerreotypes
  • Sheehan talks about new book on race and visual humor with Colby Magazine
  • Humanities Lab Spotlight: Museum Practicum—The L.C.Bates Museum
  • Plesch Humanities Lab Creates Website for L.C. Bates Museum
  • The Guardian Runs Story about Green’s New Book
  • New Book by Green in UK’s The Review, Creative Boom, and Others
  • Plesch Edits and Contributes to Maine Arts Journal Summer Issue
  • Plesch and Friedenreich publish in Studies in Iconography
  • Plesch holds conversation with artist Abby Shahn on her retrospective at SPEEDWELL
  • Department seminar inspires student to research Kalinga style tattoos in the Filipino Culture
  • Spring Issue of Maine Arts Journal, Edited by Plesch, Article on Lilleston
  • Plesch in Demand at International Association of Word and Image Studies
  • The James M. Carpenter Lecture with Aruna D’Souza “Against Empathy: The Value of Mistranslation in Art and in Life”
  • Ameri publishes article ” Who Holds the Keys?” in Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies
  • Sheehan awarded Boston Medical Library Fellowship at Harvard
  • Plesch Joins Editorial Board of Maine Arts Journal
  • 2019 Clara M. Southworth Lecture, “Preserving the Gilded Age”
  • Ameri publishes article on Indus Valley iconography in Artibus Asiae
  • Plesch is guest editor, contributor to Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly
  • Film Screening at Railroad Square Cinema TUNNIIT: RETRACING THE LINES OF INUIT TATTOOS
  • 2019 Faculty Biennial Show on view from September 5-22, 2019
  • Mitchell exhibits new work at ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick, ME
  • Green’s photography chosen for JRNL NO.2, by Fotofilmic
  • Raasch Faculty Fellow in Art (Photography) joins Art Department
  • Sperling interviewed for article in The Lantern
  • Plesch joins Host Committee at Farnsworth Art Museum
  • Plesch Delivers Plenary Lecture at the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
  • Plesch Organizes Session at CAA Annual Conference; Conducts Review of Trinity College’s Art History Program
  • Plesch Delivered Public Lecture at Bates College
  • Sheehan coauthors Smithsonian book on African American Photography
  • 2019 SENIOR ART EXHIBITION OPENING: MAY 9, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
  • Sheehan Elected to American Antiquarian Society
  • Sheehan Presents New Work at AAH Conference, UK
  • Sperling’s AR244 Moving Images: Magic Lanterns to Virtual Reality course featured on Colby’s Instagram
  • Borthwick One of 23 Artists at deCordova New England Biennial 2019 – Opens Friday, April 5
  • Plesch Organizes, Chairs Session at College Art Association Annual Conference
  • Mark Dion, 2019 Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities, to speak Feb. 27, 2019
  • Paul Discoe presents the Clara M. Southworth Lecture on March 12, 2019
  • Augustto Cipriani presents his lecture “Brazilian Contemporary Writing: Art, Graffiti, and Politics” on Feb. 8, 2019
  • Last semester two students interveiwed Veronique Plesch for projects in classes, involving videos modern technologies in art museums and the art of tattooing.
  • Garry Mitchell deemed “excellent painter” in Portland Press Herald arts review
  • Sheehan publishes article on Colby Museum painting by Thomas Le Clear
  • Sheehan publishes new book on race and photographic humor
  • Film Screening: Basquiat – Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
  • Film Screening: Boom for Real / White Walls Say Nothing – November 15 at 7:15 p.m.
  • Sperling speaks at Association of Historians of American Art Symposium in Minneapolis
  • Plesch publishes essay in the fall issue of the Maine Arts Journal
  • Plesch has one of her early modern graffiti photos in exhibition
  • The Department of Art presents a lecture by Luc Sante
  • President Mary Hawkes-Greene of Burren College of Art invited to speak at Colby
  • Harkett publishes essay in Why Art Museums?
  • Mitchell exhibits new work at Speedwell Projects, Portland
  • Lilleston exhibits at Artlink Gallery
  • Sheehan edits new book on photography and migration
  • Harkett’s students write Lantern posts about artists in the Senior Exhibition
  • Sheehan appointed distinguished scholar and director of research at Lunder Institute
  • Ameri co-edits new book on seals in the ancient world
  • Juliet Sperling joining Art faculty in fall 2018
  • NEW fall 2018 Art course: Facing America!
  • Green’s photo on cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine
  • Sheehan wins Terra Foundation Publication Grant
  • Sheehan’s new Global Lab travels to Smithsonian
  • Sheehan publishes in new book on before-and-after photos
  • Plesch leads alumni tour in Italy and France
  • Weitz lectures in Taiwan
  • Beranek’s essay on Govert Flinck featured in new book
  • Green participates in exhibit that celebrates Thoreau
  • Plesch publishes essay in Crossing Borders—Appropriations and Collaborations
  • Plesch delivers keynote at conference in Switzerland
  • Plesch concludes third term as president of International Association of Word and Image Studies
  • Sheehan as guest lecturer at Terra Foundation in Giverny
  • Green’s photos shown at Portland Art Museum in Oregon
  • Green exhibits photos at Urbanautica Institute
  • Plesch delivers keynote address at international conference in Brazil
  • Green’s photos of Waterville at Common Street Arts
  • 2017 Senior Art Exhibition opens May 4

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