Lyons Arts Lab

The Lyons Arts Lab is a collaborative incubator to create groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work in the arts. The lab serves as a creative think tank augmented by industry professionals with the goal of supporting and bringing to life new ideas, concepts, and content developed by Colby students. It will provide resources, including funding and mentorship, to test, focus, and refine creative projects so they can ultimately be performed for and experienced by the public.  

The Lyons Arts Lab is housed in and leverages the extraordinary assets of the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, which opened in 2023. As the most advanced arts facility in the region, the Gordon Center has been purposely designed to be highly collaborative and multidisciplinary in nature. With a unique combination of multipurpose performance areas and studios designed for teaching, performing, and creating, the facility has multimedia and interactive technology to support all types of performances and works, including films produced by the new lab.

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.