Colby College Museum of Art

Join us for three weeks of art making, dancing, poetry reading, and writing during Colby Museum’s Lively Spaces Summer Camp. Colby Museum’s collection will inspire rising 3rd graders through 7th graders to move, write, speak, draw, and perform. The camp takes place Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., July 9–28, 2018 and is […]

Decorate your own picture frame for your favorite 5″ x 7″ photo, and come with your cheesiest smile for the on-site Polaroid photo booth. Open to all ages — children must be accompanied by an adult. Location: Mirken Education Center, Colby Museum of Art.

This annual senior exhibition brings together art created by Colby seniors who have completed extensive work in their chosen media. The exhibit runs through May 27. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Museum of Art.

Waterville schoolchildren taught by Colby students enrolled in Lunder Institute artist in residence Richard Blanco’s course Teach this Poem™ will read their poetry in the Museum’s galleries.

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the Museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme, “A Day at the Beach.” Then head to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. Advance registration is not required, […]

Join us for a celebration of the arts at Colby College with presentations of creative scholarship. These will included musical performances, studio tours, poetry and fiction readings in the Art Museum, Given Auditorium, and elsewhere in the Bixler Art and Music Building. For a full schedule, click here. Refreshments will be available in the Museum lobby. […]

Participants will visit the exhibition Game Time, then create their own personal trading card. Family workshops are free and open to all ages. No RSVP is required. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Join Bill Lagerstrom, museum docent and former professional sports photographer, and Robert P. Hernandez, freelance illustrator and high school baseball coach, in discussing the current exhibition Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, which will remain on view through June 24, 2018.

It’s game time! We’ll have hot dogs, cotton candy, peanuts, and cracker jacks, plus other ballpark-themed food and drink along with gallery tours and activities. Cosponsored by the Colby Museum of Art and the museum’s Student Advisory Board.

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Then to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. No RSVP is required; however, the program is capped at 30 […]

For centuries, the guitar has been associated with folk songs, which are occasionally elevated to art song. We offer three in this program: Manuel da Falla’s “Siete canciones populares españolas” (1914), Mátyás Seiber’s “Four French Folk Songs” (1959), and Benjamin Britten’s “Folksong Arrangements” (1961). Location: Alex Katz Gallery, Colby Museum of Art. Sponsored by the […]

DREAM Action: Voicing Challenges in Our Own Communities Colby College Museum of Art No registration required   How does one react to a recent deportation? Where can we go to seek support or are unsure where to start? How can we have a healthy dialogue with someone around immigration in our current political climate? In our […]

Join Tara Kohn, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History at Bowdoin College, as she explores the exhibition City of Ambition: Photography from the Collection, on view Feb. 15 to Aug. 26, 2018.

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Then to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. No RSVP is required; however, the program is capped at 30 […]

During the academic year Museum staff members, Colby faculty, and guest speakers will discuss current exhibitions or works in the museum collection in Noontime Art Talks. Join Colby College Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Steve Wurtzler and Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Diana Tuite as they discuss American painter and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter […]

A scavenger hunt at the museum is followed by an egg-decorating workshop in the Mirken Education Center. Open to all ages; children must be accompanied by an adult. Location: Mirken Education Center, Colby Museum of Art.

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Then to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. No RSVP is required; however, the program is capped at 30 […]

Join Tim Hood, Colby Class of 2019, as he explores game time in our current exhibition Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, on view through June 24.

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Then to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. No RSVP is required; however, the program is capped at 30 […]

The museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art welcomes Richard Blanco, artist in residence and presidential inaugural poet. Blanco will read and discuss selections of his inspiring work centered on the meaning of home, including poems from his latest book, Boundaries, a collaborative project with landscape photographer Jacob Bond Hessler. Blanco’s poems and Hessler’s photographs together […]

Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grown-ups are invited to a brief exploration of the museum, after which we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme, Home. Then to the Mirken Education Center to have a snack and create your own works of art. An RSVP is not required, but the program is capped […]

Assistant Professors of Spanish Dean Allbritton and Brett White will discuss Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled (Portrait of Dad),” an arrangement of individually wrapped candies from which visitors are able to take a piece of sweet art.

“Threnody for Ann Arceneaux,” a trio for clarinet, viola, and piano composed by Eric Thomas, Colby music associate and director of bands, is the featured work on this chamber program. The work, jointly commissioned by the Maine Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association, was premiered at the Quad State Conference in 2015. Other […]

Create a colorful paper window design inspired by Tiffany lamps in the museum’s collection. Families are invited to attend this two-hour workshop, open to all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Location: Mirken Education Center, Colby Museum of Art

Join Lunder Curator for Whistler Studies Justin McCann in examining photographs in Game Time: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss, on view through June 24. Part of the Noontime Art Talks Series.