Lyons Arts Lab

The Lyons Arts Lab: Celebrate and Elevate 
The Lyons Arts Lab offers flexible and individualized support for Colby students to advance their creative work.

Mission

Colby’s Lyons Arts Lab inspires, celebrates, and elevates student work in the arts. It supports students at multiple stages of the creative process—from an idea’s inception to a project’s completion. The multifaceted program tailors support to each project, helping students challenge, expand, and refine their ideas toward the development of original work. Support from the lab allows students to liberate creative thought and action, with learning, making, and connection-building at its center.

The lab gathers resources from across the College and its expansive community and leverages networks of support, including the expertise of faculty, alumni, industry professionals, and the College’s curricular arts programs. In the spirit of the liberal arts, Lyons Arts Lab programs open pathways for experimentation across disciplines, serve as gateways into the College’s academic arts programs, and offer support for the most rigorous creative practices. The Lyons Arts Lab underscores the transformative potential of creative curiosity in building a life of meaning, purpose, and beauty.

Launched in 2022, the dynamic new lab is the result of an endowed gift from Colby Trustee John Lyons ’85 and Susannah Gray, who currently serves on the Board of Governors at the Colby College Museum of Art.