As invoked in its name, Seeing Otherwise invites visual inquiry and discovery to challenge
representations of migration and mobility in art. Featuring works by Romare Bearden, Phong
Bui, Lalla Essaydi, Whitfield Lovell, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mosse, Fred Wilson, Leo
Rubinfien, and Alfred Stieglitz, Seeing Otherwise explores relationships between displacement,
reinvention, presence, absence, identity, and memory. This exhibition is curated by Catherine
Besteman, Chloé Powers ‘19, and Caroline Webb ‘19.

At the invitation of the Museum, the New Jersey–based artist Torkwase Dyson visited Waterville to consult archival materials related to Samuel Osborne (c. 1833–1904). Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Osborne migrated to Maine in 1865 and served as a Colby College janitor from 1867 to 1903. In the works she produced for Nautical Dusk, Dyson combines simple geometric forms infused with metaphorical associations found in obituaries of Osborne written by unnamed white authors.

For the eighth installment of the Currents series, Carly Glovinski has created a two-part exhibition on view concurrently at the Colby Museum and the Waterville Public Library. Presented alongside her installations of painted, cast, and woven sculptures is contextual source material, including artworks from the Lunder Collection and library books awaiting readers.

In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For Goya, an artist beholden to the Spanish court, printmaking was a means of elucidating the human condition on his own terms during an era of revolution and tumult. Goya Prints from the Lunder Collection includes a bound volume of Los Caprichos, a new digital interface providing images of each of the etchings in the series, and a nineteenth-century commentary on the work accompanied by an English translation.