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Sep 21, 2023

“Whistler’s Cities, Our Cities”

Join the Colby College Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art for Whistler’s Cities, Our Cities. This program will consider artist James McNeill Whistler’s urban imagery in the context of Washington D.C. and Waterville, Maine, the two cities hosting the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change. What parallels exist between the European metropoles Whistler pictured in the late nineteenth century and these places today? What lessons can we learn to build inclusive and sustainable cities?

This program will be set up as a Zoom webinar; please register here to receive the link to join the program.

This virtual program will be introduced by Elisa Germán, the Colby Museum’s Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies, and will include panelists David Park Curry, curator of Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change; Ben Lisle, assistant professor of American Studies at Colby College; and Scott Kratz of the 11th Street Bridge Park project. Diana Greenwold, Lunder Curator of American Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, will moderate the discussion.

The program is free and open to all. It will be recorded and available for viewing (with captioning) on the Colby College Museum of Art’s website and social media channels. The related exhibition, Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change is on view through October 22, 2023 at the Colby College Museum of Art. The exhibition will then be on view from November 18, 2023 through May 4, 2024 at the National Museum of Asian Art.

Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change is a project of the Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies and is made possible with support from the Lunder Foundation.