Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Priscilla Doel, museum docent, will lead the program, focusing on Acoma by Thomas Moran, located in the Osher Gallery.
Join the Colby College Music Department for a series of live performances in the Colby Museum galleries, featuring local and regional musicians. This program features mezzo-soprano Joëlle Morris, with Christina Spurling on piano, in a celebration of American women composers, highlighting works by early 20th century composers Florence Price and Amy Beach, as well as…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Stella Gonzalez, student guide, will lead the program, focusing on Untitled by Alexander Calder, located in the Davis Gallery. This work is part of the exhibition, The Poetics of Atmosphere: Lorna Simpson’s…
In the complex political landscape of central India in the 16th and 17th centuries, portraits did more than simply convey a likeness of the sitter. They were produced at the court but then were disseminated to different markets and were exchanged during the course of diplomacy. Therefore, they served to also convey important aspects of…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Christine Zheng, Mirken Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice, will lead the program, focusing on Empty Head Grid by Philip Tsiaras, located in the Sally and Michael Gordon Gallery.
Practice your language skills and converse with other art lovers in these language-based social events held in the galleries of the Colby College Museum of Art. This program is designed to connect and build relationships among language learners and native speakers using art as a catalyst for conversation. This program invites speakers/ learners of Japanese,…
Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the Colby Museum galleries. Our virtual Artful Movements sessions begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by yoga and meditation led by Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. Watch the program our event page or Facebook. In March, our theme of Let’s Be Present is…
Join the Colby College Music Department for a series of live performances in the Colby Museum galleries, featuring local and regional musicians. For this program, members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, joined by Colby faculty member Yuri Funahashi, will present a chamber music program featuring works by Fauré, and others.
Experience greater mind-body connection through our in-person Artful Meditation and Expression program. Participants will join art therapist Bodhi Simpson in a guided meditation session in the Colby Museum galleries, followed by an art making experience in our Mirken Education Center. This offering will support your personal comfort with creative expression, increase self-awareness, and offer simple tools to support…
For March’s First Friday, join Lunder Institute Residential Fellow Veronica Perez and their co-organizer Stacey Tran for an evening of art, music and poetry focusing on Black and Brown voices from Maine. Stemming from Perez’s developing sculptural work composed of hair and storytelling, this event invites audiences to consider their own intimate experiences of identity…
Intellectual exchange between thinkers within and beyond the Caribbean archipelago has long informed the modes of resistance in the region. These connections have influenced the works of writers such as Langston Hughes from the United States, Nicolás Guillén from Cuba, Luis Palés Matos from Puerto Rico, and Aimé Césaire from Martinique, among others. Join us…
K–12 educators, join Colby College Museum of Art staff and guest instructors for a monthly virtual meeting to have fun, spark ideas for your classroom, and create a community of practice and support. Each month, we’ll share a new set of looking activities, games, or other innovative approaches to encountering art. In March we will…