Past Events

08
Jul

Summer Luncheon

Saturday, July 8, 10:00 a.m.
09
Jul

Community Day

Sunday, July 15, Noon
14
Jul

The Cassatt String Quartet presents Lighthouse Keeper

Friday, July 14, 11:00 a.m.
18
Jul

Public tour of Marsden Hartley’s Maine

Tuesday, July 18, Noon
Tuesday, July 25, Noon
Tuesday, August 1, Noon
Tuesday, August 8, Noon
Tuesday, August 15, Noon
Tuesday, August 22, Noon
Tuesday, August 29, Noon
Tuesday, September 5, Noon
Tuesday, September 12, Noon
Tuesday, September 19, Noon
Tuesday, September 26, Noon
Tuesday, October 3, Noon
Tuesday, October 10, Noon
Tuesday, October 17, Noon
Tuesday, October 24, Noon
Tuesday, October 31, Noon
Tuesday, November 7, Noon
19
Jul

MIFF presents Bambi (Centerpiece Gala Film)

Wednesday, July 19, 6:30 p.m.
29
Jul

Lively Spaces Final Performance

Saturday, July 29, 10:00 a.m.
08
Sep

Films on the Hill and In the ‘Ville: Charlotte’s Web

Friday, September 8, 6:30 p.m.
09
Sep

Art + Storytelling: Maine Adventure

Saturday, September 9, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, September 23, 11:00 a.m.
14
Sep

Fall Open House

Thursday, September 14, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 4, 5:30 p.m.
15
Sep

Noontime Art Talk: Bird’s Eye-View of Audubon

Friday, September 15, Noon
19
Sep

Theaster Gates: Lunder Institute Inaugural Lecture

Tuesday, September 19, 5:00 p.m.
21
Sep

Music in the Museum: “Music I Heard with You” Resinosa Ensemble

Thursday, September 21, Noon
21
Sep

Films on the Hill and In the ‘Ville: The Birds

Thursday, September 21, 7:15 p.m.
27
Sep

Page Turning of Audubon’s Birds of America

Wednesday, September 27, Noon
Wednesday, October 25, Noon
Wednesday, November 8, Noon
Wednesday, December 6, Noon
Wednesday, December 20, Noon
28
Sep

You’re Speaking My Language: Spanish

Thursday, September 28, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 12, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 30, 7:00 p.m.
29
Sep

Noontime Art Talk: Marsden Hartley and Modern Poetry

Friday, September 29, Noon
06
Oct

Symposium: “Somehow a Past: New England Regionalism, 1900 to 1960″

Friday, October 6, 9:00 a.m.
07
Oct

Art + Storytelling: Birds of a Feather

Saturday, October 7, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 21, 11:00 a.m.
11
Oct

Music in the Museum: Faculty Violin Recital

Wednesday, October 11, Noon
14
Oct

Family Workshop: Making Faces

Saturday, October 13, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 14, 10:00 a.m.
20
Oct

Noontime Art Talk: Audubon’s Insects and Birds

Friday, October 20, Noon
26
Oct

An Artful Halloween: Costume Party at the Colby Museum of Art

Thursday, October 26, 6:00 p.m.
31
Oct

Franken-Bird: A Taxidermy Talk and Demonstration

Tuesday, October 31, 4:00 p.m.
13
Feb

Southworth Lecture: Lock-In: Design Parameters for a Carbon-Neutral Future

Tuesday, February 13, 5:00 p.m.
15
Feb

Spring Open House

Thursday, February 15, 4:30 p.m.
15
Feb

Palentine’s Day at the Museum

Thursday, February 15, 6:30 p.m.
16
Feb

Noontime Art Talk: It’s In the Details: Looking Closely at Sports Photography

Friday, February 16, Noon
21
Feb

Music in the Museum: Faculty Recital

Wednesday, February 21, Noon
23
Feb

Noontime Art Talk: Unending Sweetness: Loss and Identity in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (Portrait of Dad), 1991

Friday, February 23, Noon
27
Feb

Poetry Reading and Conversation: An Evening with Richard Blanco

Tuesday, February 27, 5:00 p.m.
13
Mar

Workshop: Poetry and Our Deeper Selves

Tuesday, March 13, 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 p.m.
15
Mar

Making Space for We: Building Bridges Through Art and Social Action

Thursday, March 15, 6:00 p.m.
16
Mar

Noontime Art Talk: Exploring Game Time

Friday, March 16, Noon
03
Apr

Origins Keynote speaker: Cornel West

Tuesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m.
06
Apr

Noontime Art Talk: Rosalyn Drexler Goes to the Movies

Friday, April 6, Noon
06
Apr

Campus + Community Film Series: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Friday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.
07
Apr

Art + Storytelling: Game Time

Saturday, April 7, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, April 21, 11:00 a.m.
12
Apr

Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: Yoshua Okón

Thursday, April 12, 5:00 p.m.
12
Apr

2018 TRAVELING ART SHOW: Opening Reception

Thursday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
13
Apr

Noontime Art Talk: Cities of Ambition

Friday, April 13, Noon
17
Apr

Lecture: Reasons for Writing About Art

Tuesday, April 17, 5:00 p.m.
18
Apr

Music in the Museum: Folk Song and the Guitar

Wednesday, April 18, Midnight
19
Apr

2018 TRAVELING ART SHOW: Closing Reception

Thursday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.
21
Apr

Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

Saturday, April 21, Noon
24
Apr

Community Discussion with Philadelphia’s Monument Lab

Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m.
27
Apr

Noontime Art Talk: What a Game!

Friday, April 27, Noon
28
Apr

Family Weekend Workshop: Make Your Own Personal Trading Card

Saturday, April 28, 10:00 a.m.
30
Apr

Campus + Community film series: David Driskell: In Search of The Creative Truth

Monday, April 30, 7:30 p.m.
01
May

FREEDOM TO SPEAK: A Conversation with Jemele Hill on Athletics and Activism

Tuesday, May 1, 5:30 p.m.
02
May

Arts @ CLAS (Colby Liberal Arts Symposium)

Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 p.m.
10
May

Opening Reception: 2018 Senior Exhibition

Thursday, May 10, 4:30 p.m.
08
Jun

Artist Talk: Walter Iooss

Friday, June 8, 3:00 p.m.
09
Jul

Lively Spaces Summer Camp July 9–28, 2018

Monday, July 9, 10:00 a.m.
14
Jul

2018 Summer Luncheon

Saturday, July 14, 10:30 a.m.
17
Sep

Campus + Community Film Series: !Women Art Revolution

Monday, September 17, 7:15 p.m.
22
Sep

Art + Storytelling: Creating Communities

Saturday, September 22, 11:00 a.m.
27
Sep

You’re Speaking My Language: Chinese

Thursday, September 27, 7:00 p.m.
28
Sep

Music in the Museum: Duane Edwards Quartet

Friday, September 28, Noon
29
Sep

Art + Storytelling: Wind in the Willows

Saturday, September 29, 11:00 a.m.
06
Oct

Art + Storytelling: An Ode to Maine 1

Saturday, October 6, 11:00 a.m.
11
Oct

Luc Sante Lecture: “The Genius of the System”

Thursday, October 11, 5:00 p.m.
11
Oct

You’re Speaking My Language: Spanish

Thursday, October 11, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 8, 6:00 p.m.
11
Oct

You’re Speaking My Language: Italian

Thursday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.
17
Oct

Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Lecture: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Wednesday, October 17, 6:00 p.m.
20
Oct

Art + Storytelling: An Ode to Maine 2

Saturday, October 20, 11:00 a.m.
24
Oct

Music in the Museum: The Andres Segovia Continuum

Wednesday, October 24, Noon
25
Oct

Noontime Art Talk: Seeing Otherwise

Thursday, October 25, Noon
25
Oct

Artful Halloween

Thursday, October 25, 5:30 p.m.
26
Oct

Noontime Art Talk: Goya / Spero: A Conversation

Friday, October 26, Noon
01
Nov

Social Hour with Carly Glovinski and Tammy Rabideau

Thursday, November 1, 5:30 p.m.
02
Nov

Noontime Art Talk: Readings for an Exhibition: Carly Glovinski and Jenna Crowder in Conversation

Friday, November 2, Noon
02
Nov

1968 and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

Friday, November 2, 4:30 p.m.
03
Nov

Art + Storytelling: People and Portraits 1

Saturday, November 3, 11:00 a.m.
07
Nov

Torkwase Dyson (AO)

Wednesday, November 7, 1:30 p.m.
08
Nov

You’re Speaking My Language: French

Thursday, November 8, 7:00 p.m.
14
Nov

Noontime Art Talk: “Much Chaos in Our Time”: World War I and Weimar Germany

Wednesday, November 14, Noon
15
Nov

Music in the Museum: Ah, Raza! The Making of an American Artist

Thursday, November 15, Noon
15
Nov

Theaster Gates on Land

Thursday, November 15, 5:00 p.m.
17
Nov

Art + Storytelling: People and Portraits 2

Saturday, November 17, 11:00 a.m.
29
Nov

The Wonder of the World: Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the Meaning of Painting

Thursday, November 29, 5:00 p.m.
01
Dec

Light up Holiday Ornaments

Saturday, December 1, 10:00 a.m.
08
Dec

Joy to the Ville

Saturday, December 8, 10:00 a.m.