In collaboration with Waterville Creates, Colby College Museum of Art presents a fun photography activity for all ages. There will be opportunities to be part of the museum’s Picturing Our Community engagement project, which is inspired by the exhibition, Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection. We’ll have instant cameras, printers, and art materials…
Make a mosaic with seeds, beans, and grains- inspired by Ticonic Gallery’s exhibition, The Farm Tools Project. In the spirit of recycling, each seed mosaic will use seeds that are older and no longer viable to plant. Special thanks to Fedco Seeds, Clinton, Maine. Book: “Before We Eat, From Farm to Table” by Pat Brisson…
Paper that blooms! Inspired by Ticonic Gallery’s Exhibition, The Farm Tools Project, learn the process of making eco-friendly paper, made with plants, and wildflower seeds. Planting instructions will be included. Special thanks to Fedco Seeds, Clinton, Maine. Book: “Sonya’s Chickens” by Phoebe Wahl Art in the Park is back! Once again, Waterville Creates has joined forces with…
Through the spring semester, conceptual artist Natasha Marin worked with a cohort of artists, Terri Nwanma, Jess Xing, Maimouna Cherif, Kay Wesley, Anosacha Peete-Meyers, and Samah Mohamedzein, to collaboratively create an exhibition engaging the questions that shape her project, Black Imagination: What is your origin story? How do you heal yourself? Describe/imagine a world where…
May’s First Friday at Greene Block + Studios will kick-off at 5 pm – 6 pm with Beets and Letters, a performance of the Social Nourishment project by Lunder Institute Residential Fellow, Golaleh Yazdani. Following the performance on the ground floor, jazz pianist Jake Hickey with Duane Edwards (bass) and Jason Dean (drums) will play…
Join Waterville Creates and community partners for our annual Arts in Bloom event, taking place in downtown Waterville on Saturday, May 14. Explore your creativity with free programs scheduled throughout the day. This seasonal event is the perfect way to celebrate spring with friends and family! 9:00 a.m. Spring Story Walk with the Waterville Public Library…
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…