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Waterville, Maine 04901
207-859-5600

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08
Jul

Summer Luncheon

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

Community Day

Sunday, July 9, Noon
Sunday, July 15, Noon
Saturday, July 27, 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, September 19, 5:00 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.
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 14, 5:30 p.m.
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, March 14, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 27, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 24, 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, April 25, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 10, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 11, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.
11
Oct

You’re Speaking My Language: Italian

Thursday, April 4, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 3, 6:00 p.m.
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.
Thursday, October 31, 7:00 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, October 24, 6:00 p.m.
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 7, 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 8, 10:00 a.m.
26
Jan

Art + Storytelling: Really Small, Really

Saturday, January 26, 11:00 a.m.
09
Feb

Art + Storytelling: Filled with Feelings

Saturday, February 9, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, February 23, 11:00 a.m.
12
Feb

Music in the Museum: The Presence of the Past. Music for Cello and Theorbo or Guitar

Tuesday, February 12, Noon
16
Feb

Love without Limits

Saturday, February 16, 5:30 p.m.
28
Feb

You’re Speaking My Language: Spanish – Identidad y autorretrato

Thursday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
02
Mar

Art + Storytelling: Daydreams

Saturday, March 2, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, March 16, 11:00 a.m.
07
Mar

You’re Speaking My Language: French – Identité et Autoportrait

Thursday, March 7, 6:00 p.m.
08
Mar

Music in the Museum: Bayside Trio

Friday, March 8, Noon
12
Mar

Noontime Art Talk: Gazing Back: Zanele Muholi as Artist and Activist

Tuesday, March 12, Noon
19
Mar

Campus + Community Film Series: Shield and Spear (2014)

Tuesday, March 19, 7:15 p.m.
21
Mar

You’re Speaking My Language: Russian

Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 14, 7:00 p.m.
22
Mar

Noontime Art Talk: Submerging the Routine: A Conversation about Flooded McDonald’s

Friday, March 22, Noon
03
Apr

Art21 screening: Zanele Muholi: “Johannesburg”

Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 p.m.
06
Apr

Art + Storytelling: Let’s Move

Saturday, April 6, 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, April 27, 11:00 a.m.
11
Apr

Music in the Museum: The Music of Surrealism

Thursday, April 11, Noon
11
Apr

Conversación & Comunidad

Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m.
13
Apr

Zanele Muholi Dance Performance

Saturday, April 13, 2:00 p.m.
19
Apr

Noontime Art Talk: Pop Culture in Full Color: Japanese Woodblock Prints at Colby

Friday, April 19, Noon
20
Apr

Eggsploring Art

Saturday, April 20, 10:00 a.m.
04
May

Art + Storytelling: Art in Bloom

Saturday, May 4, 11:00 a.m.
14
May

SLICE – Portraits and Pizza

Tuesday, May 14, 3:30 p.m.
18
May

Arts in Bloom

Saturday, May 18, 10:00 a.m.
31
May

Pride Weekend Opening Reception

Friday, May 31, 5:00 p.m.
01
Jun

Saturday Spotlight Tour

Saturday, June 1, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 8, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 15, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 22, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 29, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 6, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 13, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 17, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 24, 2:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 31, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 7, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 14, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 21, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 28, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 19, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 2, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 9, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 16, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 23, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 7, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 14, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 21, 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 28, 2:00 p.m.
08
Jun

Curious Kid Adventures @ the Art Cart

Saturday, June 8, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, June 15, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, June 22, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, June 29, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, July 6, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, July 13, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, August 3, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, August 10, 10:00 a.m.
12
Jun

The Maine Event @ the Art Cart

Wednesday, June 12, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 19, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 26, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 3, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 17, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 24, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 31, 1:00 p.m.
08
Jul

Lively Spaces

Monday, July 8, 10:00 a.m.
11
Jul

PechaKucha Waterville Vol. 32

Thursday, July 11, 6:20 p.m.
14
Jul

Aquarela

Sunday, July 14, 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 20, 9:30 p.m.
19
Jul

Music Performance by Cassatt String Quartet

Friday, July 19, 11:00 a.m.
20
Jul

2019 Summer Luncheon

Saturday, July 20, 10:30 a.m.
07
Aug

Taste of Waterville

Wednesday, August 7, 2:00 p.m.
07
Sep

Artful Movements: Become One with Nature

Saturday, September 7, 1:00 p.m.
14
Sep

Art + Storytelling: Finding Home

Saturday, September 14, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, September 28, 10:00 a.m.
15
Sep

Guided Canoe Trip with Ryan Linehan

Sunday, September 15, Noon
18
Sep

Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2 Panel

Wednesday, September 18, 5:00 p.m.
20
Sep

Noontime Art Talk with Fall Art Studio Faculty

Friday, September 20, Noon
21
Sep

Artful Movements: Channel your Inner God or Goddess with Art

Saturday, September 21, 1:00 p.m.
22
Sep

Guided Canoe Trip with Ryan Linehan — FULL

Sunday, September 22, Noon
24
Sep

Music in the Museum: Tim Burris and Joëlle Morris

Tuesday, September 24, Noon
25
Sep

Community + Campus Film Series, Moby Dick

Wednesday, September 25, 7:15 p.m.
01
Oct

Noontime Art Talk with Séan Alonzo Harris

Tuesday, October 1, Noon
05
Oct

Saturday Art Adventures: Art+Cart

Saturday, October 5, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 19, 10:00 a.m.
05
Oct

First Light: Couture by Decontie & Brown

Saturday, October 5, 8:01 p.m.
06
Oct

Maine Craft Weekend Events at the Colby College Museum of Art

Sunday, October 6, 1:00 p.m.
07
Oct

Community + Campus Film Series, Dawnland

Monday, October 7, 7:15 p.m.
08
Oct

Music by Hawk Henries

Tuesday, October 8, 1:00 p.m.
08
Oct

Wabanaki Perspectives on Climate Change

Tuesday, October 8, 7:00 p.m.
09
Oct

Noontime Art Demonstration: Flint-Knapping

Wednesday, October 9, Noon
11
Oct

Guided Canoe Trip with Barry Dana

Friday, October 11, Noon
12
Oct

Art + Storytelling: Animals in Art

Saturday, October 12, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 26, 10:00 a.m.
12
Oct

Community Tulip Planting

Saturday, October 12, 2:00 p.m.
15
Oct

Noontime Art Talk: Ice Core Perspectives on Climate Change

Tuesday, October 15, Noon
19
Oct

Artful Movements: Time to Face Yourself

Saturday, October 19, 1:00 p.m.
23
Oct

Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems

Wednesday, October 23, 5:30 p.m.
27
Oct

Let Art Inspire: Outdoor Excursions: Guided Walking Tour

Sunday, October 27, Noon
02
Nov

Saturday Art Adventures: Art + Cart

Saturday, November 2, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, November 16, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, November 30, 10:00 a.m.
02
Nov

Artful Movements: Time to Power-Up

Saturday, November 2, 1:00 p.m.
05
Nov

Noontime Art Talk, “Plague-winds” and “Great stinks”: Pollution and Disease in Whistler’s London

Tuesday, November 5, Noon
09
Nov

Art + Storytelling: Wish Upon a Star

Saturday, November 9, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, November 23, 10:00 a.m.
12
Nov

Community + Campus Film Series, Five Seasons

Tuesday, November 12, 7:15 p.m.
14
Nov

Music in the Museum: Gulimina Mahamuti

Thursday, November 14, Noon
16
Nov

Artful Movements: Let the Music Move You

Saturday, November 16, 1:00 p.m.
20
Nov

Noontime Art Talk with Sharon Corwin and Katherine Stubbs

Wednesday, November 20, Noon

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