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…
This month’s kit, Art for Social Change, is inspired by the short film “Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life”, showing this week at the Maine International Film Festival. Mayers is an activist who creates art for social change, often using humor and wit to communicate her message. What are you passionate about? Do you hate seeing…
The Waterville Public Library offers Grab & Go kits for adults and teens! The kits will be available on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month and distributed while supplies last. Since July is a longer month, we’ll have a bonus kits on the 5th Friday, too! Each kit will contain the supplies and instructions…
The Waterville Public Library offers Grab & Go kits for adults and teens! The kits will be available on the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month and distributed while supplies last. Since July is a longer month, we’ll have a bonus kits on the 5th Friday, too! Each kit will contain the supplies and instructions…
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. July 6: Duck on a Pond Puppet July 13: Origami…
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…
Join us to celebrate dogs!! Using techniques inspired by British artist Clare Youngs, we will add animal collages to our Summer Art Journals. Come create a collage with texture, pattern, stamped designs, and paint. This week is extra special because the Waterville Area Humane Society will attend with furry friends to talk about fostering! Book:…
Shadows evolve as the sun moves through the sky; it is fun to notice the change in your shadow as the day progresses. Create mini shadows in your Summer Art Journal or make a “dancing” shadow on larger paper or on the sidewalk with chalk. Note: Biologist Greg LeClair will attend with live pond animals!…
What is your favorite kind of tail? The library’s summer reading theme is all about tails, so we are creating tails to bring home! We will have giant pieces of cardboard on hand so that you can make a tail your very own size. Special guest artist Rob Dunlavey will attend to help inspire some…
RESCHEDULED to Thursday, September 2 To finish our Summer Art Journals and our Art in the Park programs, we will create plein air watercolor paintings of the sunflowers in bloom and the Two Cent Bridge. Learn simple ways to add watercolor to a sketchbook and how to create art outdoors with ease. As part of…
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…
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