Colby Jazz Band Jeff Osarczuk, director Swing into spring with an evening of jazz classics by the Colby Jazz Ensemble. Featuring a variety of popular tunes by Thad Jones, Victor Lopez, Bill Holman, and Gordon Goodwin. Guest appearance on saxophone by retired director Eric Thomas. This concert is one you won’t want to miss. Free…
(Funded by the Robert J. Strider Concert Fund) A new music ensemble for the 21st Century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is dedicated to the creation of new works for chamber ensemble. This concert will take the audience through recently written music based on soundwalks, elements of machinery, Latin American literature, and migration.
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 April, we will…
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 will lead the program, focusing on Town of Skowhegan by Yvonne Jacquette, located in the Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art can offer…
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 Sally Kashala will lead the program, focusing on Inner Music by Richmond Barthé, located in the Sam L. Cohen Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art can offer…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Robert Nicholson, museum docent, will lead the program, focusing on Ship of Zion by Theaster Gates, located in the Sally and Michael Gordon Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art…
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 will lead the program, focusing on Chamrousse by Joan Mitchell, located in the Sally and Michael Gordon Gallery. Talking as a group about works of art can offer us new…
Siera Hyte, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, will be in conversation with Dave Epstein, meteorologist, and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, poet, about the exhibition, The Poetics of Atmosphere: Lorna Simpson’s Cloudscape and Other Works from the Collection. The conversation will bring together the ways Greaves and Epstein frame weather, climate, and the environment in…
The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection was built through friendships with photographers that led to a network of close relationships and interconnections. Moderated by Séan Alonzo Harris, this panel will bring together photographers Elizabeth Greenberg, Lola Flash, and Charles Daniel Dawson to talk about their favorite images in the Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection exhibition,…
Join the Colby College Music Department for a series of live performances in the Colby Museum galleries, featuring local and regional musicians. This program, titled Suites, Sonatas, and Standards, features Peter Bloom on flute and Mark Leighton on guitar performing a chamber-jazz excursion from the salons of Paris, Vienna, and São Paulo to the nightclubs of…
Join us for an in-person poetry workshop with Adam Giannelli, who teaches literature and creative writing at Colby College. Participants will discuss poems written about works of art, a type of poetry called ekphrasis. We’ll play a word and image game and read poems written by Colby students, followed by a chance to write your…
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…
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