Picturing Us, Community Portraits with Séan Alonzo Harris Thursday, July 21, 6:00 – 8:00pm Greene Block + Studios Have your portrait captured and printed by artist photographer Séan Alonzo Harris and add your image to a collective community portrait! This workshop is part of Waterville Creates Common Threads project. Follow the link for more information…
Sharing Your Story with Handbound Books with artist Evelyn Wong Greene Block + Studios Thursday, July 14, 6:00 – 8:00pm Learn how to make 3 softcover books: the pamphlet-bound book, the Chinese flutter book, and the Japanese Musubitoji. Tell your story through writing, stamping, and stitching with artist Evelyn Wong from Fireball Book Bindery! This…
Crafternoons are fun weekly crafts for young children and their families! Join Mrs. Liz at 3PM on the Waterville Public Library’s Facebook page for instructions and a video demonstration. The kits for each craft will be available through Library to go the Monday* before the event. 6/7: Paper Roses 6/14: Gone Fishing Sign 6/21:…
Join the Colby Museum’s summer luncheon, a celebration of the museum’s commitment to transforming lives through art, the contributions of artists, and the unwavering support of friends like you. Learn more and get your tickets. Honoring: Sharon Corwin, Ph.D. and William G. Tsiaras, M.D. ’68, P’03, Recipients of the 2022 Jetté Award for Leadership in…
Join us for a virtual conversation with the three living artists featured in the exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death. Tanya Sheehan, exhibition curator, will facilitate a conversation with Duane Michals, Mario Moore, and Janaina Tschäpe, talking about their work and the impetus to depict their own deaths. Register for this program here, and look for the…
The Children’s Discovery Museum, with support provided by the Colby College Arts Office and the Colby College Museum of Art, is excited to team up with artist Veronica Perez to create beautiful interactive pieces of art to be part of the museum’s brand new exhibit hall. This workshop for children ages 3–12 will begin with some…
The Children’s Discovery Museum, with support provided by the Colby College Arts Office and the Colby College Museum of Art, is excited to team up with artist Veronica Perez to create beautiful interactive pieces of art to be part of the museum’s brand new exhibit hall. This workshop for children ages 3–12 will begin with some…
The Children’s Discovery Museum, with support provided by the Colby College Arts Office and the Colby College Museum of Art, is excited to team up with artist Veronica Perez to create beautiful interactive pieces of art to be part of the museum’s brand new exhibit hall. This workshop for children ages 8–12 will introduce children to…
The Children’s Discovery Museum, with support provided by the Colby College Arts Office and the Colby College Museum of Art, is excited to team up with artist Veronica Perez to create beautiful interactive pieces of art to be part of the museum’s brand new exhibit hall. This workshop for children ages 3–12 will introduce children…
Join an in-person tour of our special exhibitions, offered at 2 p.m. on Saturdays throughout the summer. These guided experiences will be led by staff, student interns, and our museum docents, offering highlights for each of the exhibitions, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, Sarah Cain: hand in hand, and Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection.
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, is the first public presentation of recently rediscovered drawings in which artist Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) imagines his own funeral. The artworks, made in the early 1990s, portray Wyeth’s friends, neighbors, and wife, Betsy, surrounding a coffin at the base of Kuerner’s Hill in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, a site the artist…
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