Through movement, text, audience participation, collaboration, and institutional critique, five artists will use performance to explore and challenge institutional spaces and histories. Performances take place in the galleries and public spaces of the Colby College Museum of Art. Artists in this temporary exhibition include Jensen Ghidella ’22, Domenica Gomez ’25, Sakina Mustafa ’22, Brian Vera…
Join Lunder Institute Residential Fellow Veronica A. Perez in a braiding circle to braid and share. Perez’s work focuses on identity, experience, and existence. This workshop will guide participants in braiding a three strand braid, while discussing lived experiences of identity. Come braid and share experiences about identity, hair and race. In addition to the workshop,…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, student guide Stella Gonzalez will lead the program focusing on Leader by Betye Saar, located in the Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art can offer…
At this virtual program, Chief Curator Beth Finch will host a conversation with the five artists featured in the 2021 Faculty Biennial—art department faculty members Bradley Borthwick, Bevin Engman, Gary Green, Amanda Lilleston, and Garry Mitchell—about their artistic practices. A Q&A will follow the conversation. Please pre-register for this program here. The 2021 Faculty Biennial,…
Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the 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. Join online through the event page or the Colby Museum Facebook page. In December, our theme of…
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 December we will…
Join the Colby College Museum of Art for the first three Saturdays of December for a special guided tour of our galleries. One of the museum’s trained docents or staff will walk you through our galleries for a unique look at the permanent collection and insights into our special exhibitions Bob Thompson: This House Is…
Diana Tuite, Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and exhibition curator of Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine, will be one of the featured speakers at this virtual program, organized by the New York Studio School. Their Evening Lecture Series is free and open to the public, and registration for this program is available…
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 November, we will…
Spend 30 minutes with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum galleries. This week, Student Guide Sally Kashala will lead the program focusing on The Gift by Kara Walker, located in the Cohen Gallery (part of the Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture exhibit) Talking as a group about works of…
Spend 30 minutes with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum galleries. This week, Student Guide Stella Gonzalez will lead the program focusing on Modern Art: The Root of African Savages by Meleko Mokgosi, located in the Sally and Michael Gordon Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art can offer…
Spend 30 minutes with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum galleries. This week, Diana Tuite, Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, will lead a program, focusing on Bird Party by Bob Thompson, located in the Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine exhibition, Lower Jette Galleries. Talking as a group about…
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