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…
Beets and Letters is a performance centered around food, grief, and community. During the performance, the artist will offer freshly steamed beets, homemade halva, fresh hot tea, and letters from a wheeled cart for guests’ consumption. Letters written by Iranian authors for lost loved ones will be performed for any individual who orders food. Golaleh…
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. April 5: Toad Craft April 12: Chick Painting April…
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