Between 1974 and 1980 the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) created more than one hundred Siluetas, photographic and filmic records of the “earth-body sculptures” she enacted in Iowa and Mexico. In this Silueta and other early works in the series, Mendieta mobilized her body as actor, site, and space, incorporating it into a variety of natural environments.

Featuring the extraordinary Bien Edition of The Birds of America (1858–60) by John James Audubon, Bird Watching: Audubon and Ornithology in Early America reveals the mind of a nineteenth-century artist and ornithologist at work.

The 2017 Faculty Biennial features recent work by Colby’s teaching artists. This exhibition encompasses the diverse range of media explored by art department faculty members Bradley Borthwick, Bevin Engman, Gary Green, Amanda Lilleston, and Garry Mitchell.

How long can we tolerate this? An incomplete record from 1933–1999 (2016) is an
assemblage by Leah Modigliani comprising facsimile press photographs of evictions. As
the artist notes, the installation reads as both skyline and timeline, functioning as “a
historical archive and a representation of working and middle-class material
displacement.”