The Colby Museum presented artist Rackstraw Downes with the 2018 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence. On July 14, 2018, as part of the Museum’s annual summer luncheon, Sharon Corwin, the Museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director and... more >
September 19, 2017 marked the official launch of the Lunder Institute for American Art with a reception and public lecture by the inaugural artist-in-residence, Theaster Gates. A sculptor, musician, urban planner, and community organizer, Gates... more >
Mexican artist Yoshua Okón’s videos blur the lines between documentary, reality, and fiction. He collaborates closely with his actors (often amateurs) to create sociological examinations that ask viewers to contemplate uncomfortable situations and circumstances. In... more >
The Colby Museum presented artist David C. Driskell with the 2017 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence. On July 8, 2017, as part of the Museum’s annual summer luncheon, Sharon Corwin, the Museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director... more >
On October 27, 2016 artist Leonardo Drew presented the Colby Museum’s annual Prentice Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Number 104, 2005, currently on view in the Museum’s Gordon Gallery.
On October 20, 2016 noted Picasso scholar and art historian from California State University at Long Beach Karen L. Kleinfelder presented a keynote lecture on the gendered relationship between the artist and the model in... more >
Witness the installation of Rivane Neuenschwander’s Zé Carioca e Amigos (Zé Carioca contra o goleiro Gastão) [Joe Carioca and Friends (Joe Carioca vs. the Goalkeeper Gastão)], 1961.
Faculty and students from across campus present short talks on the intersections between their teaching and the Museum collection. Organized by the Museum’s Student Advisory Board.
Through her art and architecture, Maya Lin explores landscape as a reflection of time, history, and memory. In this lecture organized in conjunction with Colby College’s 2015–16 humanities theme, Human/Nature, Lin discussed her work and... more >
A conversation between Assistant Professor of Anthropology Winifred L. Tate and Mirken Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice Francisca Moraga López on a photograph in the permanent collection, Teresa Margolles’s El Testigo (2013).
A conversation featuring the Deputy Director for Art and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago, Martha Tedeschi, on the transformative role of art museums as centers for teaching, learning, and mentorship. Panelists include Associate... more >
Before Whistler: Aestheticizing Tendencies in the Hudson River School Alan Wallach Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus, College of William and Mary
Some Old Curiosity Shops: Whistler in Modern London David Park Curry Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, American Painting, and Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art
The Gentle Art of Building a City: Chicago Collects Whistler Sarah Kelly Oehler Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Associate Curator of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago
The Colby College Museum of Art commissioned artist Peter Soriano to create a major wall drawing for its lobby gallery. Entitled Permanent Maintenance, this new work, which the museum has acquired for its collection, was... more >
An opening reception and celebration of the Museum’s fall exhibitions, Aesthetic Harmonies: Whistler in Context; Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s; From the Studio: New Works by Faculty Artists; Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance; and... more >
Mellonheads Mix It Up: Exploring Interdisciplinary Thinking at the College Rachel Seligman Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College
Learning in and through the Academic Museum in the Context of Liberal Arts Education Liliana Milkova Curator of Academic Programs, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
From Program-wide Partnerships to Campus-wide Collaborations Pamela Franks Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Programming, and Education, Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Faculty Roundtable 1: Interdisciplinary Object-Based Learning Moderator: Lauren Lessing, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Colby College Museum of Art Panel members: Marta Ameri, Assistant Professor of Art Whitney King, Dr. Frank and Theodora Miselis... more >
Faculty Roundtable 2: Exhibition-based Learning Moderator: Shalini Le Gall, Curator of Academic Programs, Colby College Museum of Art Panel members: Aubrey Brunetaux, Assistant Professor of French Kerill O’Neill, Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics... more >
This documentary tells the story of Young Curators, the first teen program at the Colby College Museum of Art. Young Curators Program Participants: Skylar Addy, Waterville High School Andrew Beckwith, Winslow High School Terry Chamblee,... more >
First CLAS is a celebration of the arts at Colby College with presentations of creative scholarship in both the Museum and The Bixler Art and Music Center. This event is the kick-off to a full day of... more >
Noontime Art Talk by Ramey Mize, Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow February 26, 2015 In the gouache “Evening on the Beach”, 1871, and the oil painting of the same name, Winslow Homer meticulously renders the... more >
In February, the Colby College Museum of Art celebrated the opening of three new exhibitions: “currents 7: Elizabeth Atterbury,” “Terry Winters: Printed Matters,” and “Listen to this Page. Works by Bern Porter from Colby College... more >
Students in Colby’s Creative Writing Program read poetry written in response to artworks in the Museum’s galleries. This event was cosponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities as well as the Creative Writing... more >
Looking at art and sex through the lens of censorship, this class engages in a hands-on exploration of the circuitous journey that constitutes research. Taking advantage of a museum exhibit specially designed for this class,... more >
In a class that combines elements of an education course with art history, Colby College students do lots of practical, hands-on work. They learn about museum studies, gallery teaching techniques, and the museum collection, practical... more >
For the Fall of 2014, Rollins and Angel Abreu were invited to speak to the Colby and Waterville community as part of the Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture Series. Based in New York,... more >
Created and produced by Yoke and John DiGiorgio A Nature’s Art Productions Film In the last eleven years of his life, Bernard Langlais poured his physical and creative energies into the construction of more than... more >
The Colby College Museum of Art hosted its second annual Artful Halloween Costume Party back in October! We hope you enjoy this footage of our visitors dressed in fine style, trick-or-treating through the galleries, listening... more >
On September 4, the Colby College Museum of Art hosted their second annual Fall Open House celebration. It is a way to kick off the fall season in style, to welcome Colby students, faculty and... more >
The first artwork to appear in the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion is now complete. It is the conceptual work entitledWall Drawing #559 by Sol LeWitt. This wall drawing consists of 12-inch wide alternating arcs in yellow, red,... more >
This time-lapse video documents the construction of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, a 26,000-square-foot addition to the Colby College Museum of Art, from the groundbreaking on October 21, 2011, to the completed installation, in March 2013,... more >
Established in 2011, the Rediscoveries exhibition series invites members of the Colby College community to select and arrange artworks from the Colby Museum’s permanent collection. For Rediscoveries 4, guest curator Sarah Keller, assistant professor of... more >
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