Past Events

• 24

  Sep

  Quilted Conversations: Voicing Challenges in Our Own Communities

  Saturday, September 24, 1:00 p.m.
  

• 24

  Sep

  Art + Storytelling: Ready, Set, Recycle

  Saturday, September 24, 11:00 a.m.
  

• 22

  Sep

  Noontime Art Talk: Understanding Weather Vanes and Trade Signs

  Thursday, September 22, Noon
  

• 20

  Sep

  Noontime Art Talk: Death, Grief, and Mourning in 19th-Century Folk Art

  Tuesday, September 20, Noon
  

• 13

  Sep

  Music in the Museum: Faculty Violin Recital

  Tuesday, September 13, Noon
  

• 12

  May

  Educator Evenings

  Thursday, January 14, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, February 11, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, March 10, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, April 14, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, May 12, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, October 8, 6:00 p.m.
  Thursday, November 12, 6:00 p.m.
  

• 06

  May

  Opening Reception: Shakespeare Visionen

  Friday, May 6, 4:00 p.m.
  

• 27

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: Dollar Trees in the American Landscape

  Wednesday, April 27, Noon
  

• 27

  Apr

  Big Dances for a Small Stage

  Tuesday, April 26, Noon
  Wednesday, April 27, Noon
  

• 21

  Apr

  Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images

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

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  19

  Apr

  Artist-in-Residence Lecture: Maya Lin

  Tuesday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 19

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: Highway Visions: Automobility and Art in the Postwar Era

  Tuesday, April 19, Noon
  

• 14

  Apr

  Building Community through the Arts

  Thursday, April 14, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 14

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: Liberty, Equality, and Phrygian Caps: Martin Puryear’s Up and Over

  Thursday, April 14, Noon
  

• 12

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: Lewis and Clark in the Work of Robert Adams

  Tuesday, April 12, Noon
  

• 09

  Apr

  Community, Culture, Conservation Conference: Sustaining Livelihoods and Landscapes

  Friday, April 8, 9:00 a.m.
  Saturday, April 9, 9:00 a.m.
  

• 05

  Apr

  Studio Artist Lecture: Elizabeth Jabar

  Tuesday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.
  

• 16

  Mar

  Noontime Art Talk: Making and Keeping Permanent Maintenance

  Wednesday, March 16, Noon
  

• 10

  Mar

  Music in the Museum: Trancing in the Palace: Kabbalah, Altered States, and Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari

  Thursday, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 08

  Mar

  Student Musicians Perform

  Tuesday, March 1, Noon
  Tuesday, March 8, Noon
  

• 02

  Mar

  Noontime Art Talk: The Taos Society of Artists and the Changing Image of the Indian

  Wednesday, March 2, Noon
  

• 11

  Feb

  Noontime Art Talk: Turning Back and Looking Forward: A Photographer’s Thoughts on the work of Robert Adams

  Thursday, February 11, Noon
  

• 03

  Dec

  Evening of Ekphrasis

  Thursday, December 3, 6:30 p.m.
  

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  03

  Dec

  Noontime Art Talk: Icicles on the Nose, Frost in the Studio: Whistler and the Weather

  Thursday, December 3, Noon
  

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  18

  Nov

  Noontime Art Talk: Romanticism and Julia Margaret Cameron’s Heaven (1864)

  Wednesday, November 18, Noon
  

• 11

  Nov

  Music in the Museum: The Andrés Segovia Continuum

  Wednesday, November 11, Noon
  

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  04

  Nov

  Noontime Art Talk: Maine Basket Making

  Wednesday, November 4, Noon
  

• 22

  Oct

  Film/Video Screening: Christian Marclay

  Thursday, October 22, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 13

  Oct

  Noontime Tour of Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s

  Tuesday, October 13, Noon
  

• 08

  Oct

  Music in the Museum: Members of BOOM (Baroque Orchestra of Maine)

  Thursday, October 8, Noon
  

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  07

  Oct

  Noontime Art Talk: Whistler and the London Art Market

  Wednesday, October 7, Noon
  

• 30

  Sep

  Studio Artist Lecture: Emmet Gowin

  Wednesday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
  

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  30

  Sep

  Noontime Art Talk: Conversation with Nicola Twilley and Geoff Manaugh

  Wednesday, September 30, Noon
  

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  09

  Sep

  Noontime Art Talk: Humanity and Abstraction in Alex Katz

  Wednesday, September 9, Noon
  

• 16

  May

  #ArtMuseumDay

  Saturday, May 16, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 07

  May

  Senior Art Show Exhibition Opening

  Thursday, May 7, 4:30 p.m.
  

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  05

  May

  Noontime Art Talk: Renoir’s Confidences

  Tuesday, May 5, Noon
  

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  02

  May

  Kaleidoscope Workshop

  Saturday, May 2, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 29

  Apr

  Colby Liberal Arts Symposium (CLAS)

  Wednesday, April 29, 6:00 p.m.
  

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  28

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: Recently Acquired: Teresa Margolles’s El Testigo (2013)

  Tuesday, April 28, Noon
  

• 27

  Apr

  Two Videos by Christian Marclay

  Monday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 25

  Apr

  Photography and Migration Tours

  Saturday, April 25, 12:30 p.m.
  

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  22

  Apr

  Noontime Art Talk: The Origins of Chinese Writing: Oracle Bones of the Shang Dynasty (1600–1045 BCE)

  Wednesday, April 22, Noon
  

• 16

  Apr

  Performance in “The Servant of Two Masters”

  Thursday, April 16, 6:00 p.m.
  

• 14

  Apr

  Colby’s Collection of Himalayan Sacred Art: Meaning, Production, and the Visual Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

  Tuesday, April 14, 4:00 p.m.
  

• 08

  Apr

  Music in the Museum: From Spain to Latin America

  Wednesday, April 8, Noon
  

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  04

  Apr

  Egg-sploring Art

  Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 02

  Apr

  Lecture and Film Screening: Alexandra Exter and Aelita

  Thursday, April 2, 5:30 p.m.
  

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  31

  Mar

  Noontime Art Talk: Toward an Antiestablishment Art: Bern Porter’s Founds

  Tuesday, March 31, Noon
  

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  17

  Mar

  Noontime Art Talk: The Color of Sound and the Sound of Color: A Musician’s View of Aural-Visual Synergies

  Tuesday, March 17, Noon
  

• 14

  Mar

  Student Advisory Board: Powder and Wig performance of The Red Address

  Friday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
  Saturday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
  

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  14

  Mar

  “Found” Poetry Workshop

  Saturday, March 14, 10:00 a.m.
  

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  09

  Mar

  Film Screening: Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery

  Monday, March 9, 6:00 p.m.
  

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  04

  Mar

  Noontime Art Talk: The Grand Tourists and their Souvenirs

  Wednesday, March 4, Noon
  

• 03

  Mar

  Lecture: The Photographic Self-Portraits of Martin Chambi

  Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m.
  

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  26

  Feb

  Noontime Art Talk: 19th Century Fashion and the Elements: Winslow Homer’s Evening on the Beach

  Thursday, February 26, Noon
  

• 19

  Feb

  Student Advisory Board: “Not on View”

  Thursday, February 19, 7:00 p.m.
  

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  18

  Feb

  Noontime Art Talk: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Wednesday, February 18, Noon
  

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  17

  Feb

  Clara M. Southworth Lecture: François Gérard and the Art of the Interior

  Tuesday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
  

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  12

  Feb

  Student Advisory Board: Winter Open House Celebration

  Thursday, February 12, 6:00 p.m.
  

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  07

  Feb

  Art to Heart: Valentine Printmaking Workshop

  Saturday, February 7, 10:00 a.m.
  

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  09

  Jan

  American Art Publication Celebration and Talks

  Friday, January 9, Noon
  

• 13

  Dec

  Holiday Card-Making Workshop 2014

  Saturday, December 13, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 04

  Dec

  Migrations: Between Heaven and Hell- The Human Experience

  Thursday, December 4, 7:30 p.m.
  

• 20

  Nov

  Evening of Ekphrasis 2014

  Thursday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 20

  Nov

  American Art Journal November 2014 Celebration!

  Thursday, November 20, 5:00 p.m.
  

• 15

  Nov

  Community Day: Migrations

  Saturday, November 15, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 13

  Nov

  Artist’s Talk: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

  Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 13

  Nov

  Fourth ART21 Screening

  Wednesday, August 13, 7:00 p.m.
  Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 12

  Nov

  Ethical Photography: Lewis Hine’s “Immigrants”

  Wednesday, November 12, Noon
  

• 10

  Nov

  Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Aaron T Stephan

  Monday, November 10, 5:00 p.m.
  

• 06

  Nov

  Third ART21 Screening

  Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 05

  Nov

  Sam Van Aken’s “Tree of 40 Fruit”

  Wednesday, November 5, Noon
  

• 04

  Nov

  Nicole Rabata and Michael Albert

  Tuesday, November 4, Noon
  

• 30

  Oct

  An Artful Halloween: Costume Party at the Colby Museum

  Thursday, October 30, 6:00 p.m.
  

• 30

  Oct

  Horace Vernet, Painter of Modern Life

  Thursday, October 30, Noon
  

• 28

  Oct

  Remaking the World: the Artist as Environment Builder

  Tuesday, October 28, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 25

  Oct

  Making Faces Workshop

  Saturday, October 25, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 16

  Oct

  Second ART21 Screening

  Thursday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 16

  Oct

  A Militia Parade

  Thursday, October 16, Noon
  

• 15

  Oct

  Histories of Slavery and Cultural Exchange: Images of the Ramayana Dance-Drama in Thailand and Myanmar

  Wednesday, October 15, Noon
  

• 09

  Oct

  First ART21 Screening

  Thursday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 09

  Oct

  Travels of Tea

  Thursday, October 9, Noon
  

• 08

  Oct

  Stan Renard and Yuri Lily Funahashi

  Wednesday, October 8, Noon
  

• 02

  Oct

  The Migrations of Terry Tempest Williams: Readings and Ruminations

  Thursday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 25

  Sep

  From Kiev to Chicago: Gregory Orloff’s “At the Movies” and the International Language of Silent Film

  Thursday, September 25, Noon
  

• 18

  Sep

  Student Docent Night

  Thursday, September 18, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 17

  Sep

  Music’s Quill with Special Guest Todd Borgerding

  Wednesday, September 17, Noon
  

• 13

  Sep

  Langlais Art-Making Workshop

  Saturday, September 13, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 11

  Sep

  Curator’s Talk: Bernard Langlais

  Thursday, September 11, Noon
  

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  04

  Sep

  Museum Fall Open House and Artist Lecture by Lois Dodd

  Thursday, September 4, 5:30 p.m.
  

• 20

  Jul

  Community Day Celebration

  Sunday, July 20, 5:00 p.m.
  

• 01

  May

  Mayflower Chills A Cappella Concert

  Thursday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.
  

• 30

  Apr

  Colby Liberal Arts Symposium Opening Night

  Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 p.m.
  

• 24

  Apr

  New Dance Works in Response to “Histories of Now”

  Thursday, April 24, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 24

  Apr

  John P. Turner: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, April 24, Noon
  

• 22

  Apr

  Sarah Keller: Noontime Art Talk

  Tuesday, April 22, Noon
  

• 19

  Apr

  Egg-sploring Art 2014

  Saturday, April 19, 10:00 a.m.
  

• 09

  Apr

  Sascha Scott, “Seeing Strange: Ernest Blumenschein’s Indian Paintings”

  Wednesday, April 9, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 09

  Apr

  Dismantling Ceremony: Losang Samten

  Wednesday, April 9, 4:00 p.m.
  

• 09

  Apr

  Poems in Response to Losang Samten

  Wednesday, April 9, 1:00 p.m.
  

• 09

  Apr

  Noontime Concert: Nicolas Alberto Dosman, Voice and Yuri Funahashi, Piano

  Wednesday, April 9, Noon
  

• 09

  Apr

  Noontime Concert

  Wednesday, April 9, Noon
  

• 07

  Apr

  Reflections on the Sacred Sand Mandala: A Talk by Losang Samten

  Monday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 06

  Apr

  Guided Meditation by Losang Samten

  Sunday, April 6, 3:00 p.m.
  

• 02

  Apr

  Southworth Lecture: Lee Glazer

  Wednesday, April 2, 6:00 p.m.
  

• 20

  Mar

  Lynn Hannum and Beth Finch: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, March 20, Noon
  

• 18

  Mar

  Timothy McDowell: Printmaker Lecture

  Tuesday, March 18, 4:30 p.m.
  

• 13

  Mar

  NEA 4 at Colby College: Holly Hughes Performs “Sapphic Sampler Platter”

  Thursday, March 13, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 13

  Mar

  Justin McCann: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, March 13, Noon
  

• 05

  Mar

  Andrea Modica: Photography Lecture

  Wednesday, March 5, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 05

  Mar

  Elizabeth LaCouture: Noontime Art Talk

  Wednesday, March 5, Noon
  

• 03

  Mar

  Film Screening: The Square

  Monday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 27

  Feb

  Ahmed Abdalla: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, February 27, Noon
  

• 25

  Feb

  Charles Butcosk: Noontime Art Talk

  Tuesday, February 25, Noon
  

• 20

  Feb

  Seth Thayer: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, February 20, Noon
  

• 14

  Feb

  “Be Our Valentine” Celebration and Museum Open House

  Friday, February 14, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 13

  Feb

  Kim Besio: Noontime Art Talk

  Thursday, February 13, Noon
  

• 11

  Feb

  Lecture: Jessica Winegar, Arts and Revolution in Egypt

  Tuesday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
  

• 10

  Feb

  Rian Kerrane: Sculpture Lecture

  Monday, February 10, 4:00 p.m.
  

• 08

  Feb

  Art to Heart: Valentine Printmaking Workshop 2014

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

• 06

  Feb

  Professor of Music Steven Nuss Performs Japanese Noh Chants

  Thursday, February 6, 7:00 p.m.