The winter issue of the Maine Arts Journal is out with several contributions by Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and connections to Colby. As usual, Plesch wrote the Introduction and her “Art Historical Musings” column with an essay titled “Playing with the Marvelous,” in which she mentions the course on Surrealism that she regularly teaches. For this issue, Plesch contributed a conversation with artist Angela Lorenz, who was invited to Colby in the fall of 2022 to deliver the James M. Carpenter Lecture. The issue’s theme of Play was chosen to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Surrealism and thus by a remarkable coincidence coincides with Colby’s Center for the Arts and Humanities current theme. The journal invited Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities Dean Allbritton to report on Colby’s theme.