Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Sally Kashala ’23, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on The Spinners by Thomas Hart Benton, located in the Booth Ferris Foundation Gallery. Art Break is a program that is based on the practice of…
Practice your language skills and converse with other art lovers. This program is designed to connect and build relationships among language learners and native speakers using art as a catalyst for conversation. Come join us for a scavenger hunt to explore the galleries and practice your target language! Speakers of Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, Russian,…
This program will feature traditional shakuhachi pieces performed by a shakuhachi grand master Hanzaburo Araki, and contemporary works for modern flute inspired by the rich tradition of the shakuhachi. The performance will highlight the deep and ancient traditions of the Japanese shakuhachi, a bamboo end-blown flute, and how these traditions have influenced contemporary compositions for the…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Marisa C. Sánchez, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Research and Scholarly Engagement at the Lunder Institute for American Art, will facilitate the conversation in Time and Tide Flow Wide: The Collection in Context, 1959-1973. For…
Gather live in Ostrove Auditorium for a virtual-talk and Q&A with Oscar Santillán, who will deliver the 2022 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture. The artist will speak about his practice and introduce the research and work that he will be doing at Colby College during the 2022–23 academic year. The livestreamed talk and…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Jillian Impastato, Mirken Coordinator of Campus and Community Collaboration, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Cascade VIII by Louise Nevelson, located in the Sally and Michael Gordon Gallery. Art Break is grounded in the…
Join us for a virtual program featuring the artist Sarah Cain in conversation with Beth Finch, the curator of hand in hand, Cain’s current exhibition in the William D. Adams Gallery. They will discuss how Cain realized this extraordinary painting installation, her inspirations for it, and the interplay between her studio practice and site-responsive projects. A…
Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the Alex Katz: Theater and Dance exhibition, now on view at the Colby College Museum of Art. Our Let Art Inspire: Yoga in the Galleries sessions begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by yoga and meditation led by Kathleen Leisure Haberstock of School Street Yoga. This…
This First Friday Greene Block + Studios will be filled to the brim with multidisciplinary arts experiences, free and open to all! Starting at 5 pm, enjoy Songs From Here, a concert of classical songs composed and performed by Maine-based musicians and writers 6:30 pm – 8 pm: Make risograph prints in the Center for…
Get to know the Lunder Institute for American Art Residential Fellows during the monthly Lunder Institute Open Studios at Greene Block + Studios. Joining the Lunder Institute this summer are textile artist, painter, and art educator Bryana Bibbs, the New York-based performance duo of Millie Kapp and Matt Shalzi, José Santiago Pérez, an artist and educator based in Chicago who…
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