Join Daniel Harkett, associate professor of art at Colby College, and exhibition co-curators Justin McCann and Shalini Le Gall for a virtual conversation about Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. This conversation will delve into the themes of the exhibition, offering a better understanding of Mary Cassatt’s printmaking process and the role of women and…
Join the Colby College Museum of Art every Saturday throughout September 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, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt and…
Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the Colby College Museum of Art 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. The program will premiere on the Colby Museum event page,…
Experience greater mind-body connection through this Colby Museum 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…
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine is the first museum exhibition devoted to artist Bob Thompson (1937–1966) in over twenty years. It traces Thompson’s brief but prolific career, examining his inventiveness while also inviting viewers to reflect on what it means to bear witness, explore questions of justice, and consider the relationship between individual and…
Experience the Colby College Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Drawn primarily from The Lunder Collection, the show highlights Cassatt’s creative process and her fearless experimentation. Born into an upper-class family in Pennsylvania, she trained as an artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then undertook further…
As part of the Colby Museum’s Community Day on Saturday, July 31st, Lunder Institute Resident Fellow and “Experience Broker” Adriane Herman is orchestrating her 4th Emotional Value Auction from 12-4 p.m. in the Museum lobby. This non-monetized auction is grounded in reciprocity, allowing participants to pass along something that might be challenging to release to an appreciative…
Join us for Community Day, a celebration of the Colby Museum’s two new exhibitions—Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt and Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine. All are welcome for a day of fun, with looking activities in the galleries, art-making projects and performances with Lunder Institute Residential Fellows, outdoor games, summer foods, as…
Celebrate the opening of the Colby College Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. Join Justin McCann, Lunder Curator for Whistler Studies, for a virtual tour exploring the key themes of the exhibition, happening live on the Colby Museum Facebook page.
At this program, we’ll create art inspired by the human figure in action. We’ll practice communicating ideas and emotions with the way we pose our own bodies and look at how different artists do the same in their work. Using our summer art journals, everyone will create simple gesture drawings to capture the human body…
July 22- Songs and Sounds with Jose Barrionuevo from the Community Partnership Program Jose Barrionuevo, a Lunder Institute Residential Fellow, will be the featured guest at this week’s program, sharing his work as an electronic artist and helping participants create their own musical project using the songs and sounds around them. We’ll kick off the…
The Colby College Museum of Art is excited to welcome the public back into their galleries starting on Friday, June 4, right in time for the final weekend of the special exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960, which the Boston Globe describes as “a revelation.” In addition, visitors can enjoy art from the…
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