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…
How does the Kennebec River sustain us? What ways of planting, cooking, and sharing food has the River made possible? Join the ARC-Hive Collective at Greene Block + Studios for a collective food and recipe storytelling event focused on our individual and communal food memories. All participants are invited to offer a recipe and share…
Join Alexandra Méndez and Serena Sanborn, a Maine Master Naturalist, for a reflective walk through Head of Falls Park. Méndez and Sanborn bring together their expertise across collective writing, the natural world, ecological restoration, and water to create a memorable experience that invites participants to contemplate the river, its pasts, properties, and futures. Field notebooks…
What future do you envision for Waterville? For the Kennebec River? Join the ARC-Hive Collective and Waterville Creates at the Farmer’s Market at Head of Falls to create your own flag for the future you imagine. Materials and instructions provided. Flags for Tomorrow is part of “A Glossary of These Waters,” a collaboratively created art…