Colby College Museum of Art

Professor Ben Lisle and Katz Curator Diana Tuite will discuss Alec Soth’s 2012 video Summer Nights at the Dollar Tree in the context of urban development and the history of its representation.

Associate professor of history at Trent University Finis Dunaway will examine how mainstream media images have depicted environmental crises from the Cold War to the present, including a consideration of Robert Adams’s Turning Back series.

Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow Andrew Gelfand looks at artists’ responses to the construction of the interstate highway system and the emergence of car culture.

Tapping into the power of art to create stronger, more inclusive communities, faculty and students will lead discussions about works in the collection that address conceptions of gender, race, class, and nationality while also exploring how these identities and their representations impact us individually and collectively.

Professors O’Neill and Dionne will consider the extensive iconographic history of the Phrygian cap, on which Martin Puryear’s sculpture “Up and Over” is based.

Assistant Professor of History Dan Tortora will discuss the historical context of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that inspired Robert Adams.

A scavenger hunt at the Museum is followed by an egg-decorating workshop in the Mirken Education Center.

Join faculty from various departments for short talks on the intersections between their teaching and the Museum collection. Organized by the Museum’s Student Advisory Board.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Mariola Alvarez and artist Peter Soriano discuss Soriano’s Permanent Maintenance wall drawings. Cosponsored by the Department of Art and the Colby Museum of Art.

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was a central figure in the so-called New York School of American painters and musicians of the 1940s-70s. Colby faculty members Ursula Reidel (German, retired) and Steven Nuss (music), and pianist Nathan Trivers ’17, present a performance and discussion of Feldman’s last work for piano and suggest that his Palais de Mari is […]

Join us for our spring community day with tours of the Robert Adams: Turning Back exhibition. Art workshops and refreshments will be provided. Begun in response to the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Turning Back, an exhibition of 164 photographs by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams, will be on display at the Colby Museum […]

Through the ages the invention of new optical devices has shaped human perceptions of reality and redefined the physical as well as metaphysical boundaries of the world in which we live. Ori Gersht will contextualize his own practice in relation to technology, history, and art history, weaving between the personal and the general. He will […]

The oeuvre of the Taos Society of Artists, an organization of Eastern transplants who painted the peoples and landscapes of the American Southwest during the early 20th century, has long been regarded as authentic glimpses into the lives of Pueblo communities untouched by modernity. Professor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will […]

In conjunction with the annual arts and humanities theme, Human/Nature, create and investigate your own living biome, a microhabitat, made from a two-liter bottle.

Tapping into the power of art to create stronger, more inclusive communities, faculty and students will lead discussions about works in the collection that address conceptions of gender, race, class, and nationality, while also exploring how these identities and their representations impact us individually and collectively.

Marta Ameri received her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2010. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Art History at Colby College where she teaches courses focusing on Ancient, Medieval and Islamic Art. Her research focuses on the role the seals […]

Join the campus community and museum staff for a celebration of the museum’s spring exhibitions with a reception, behind-the-scenes tours, film screening, and an exhibition of student work in the Harriman Student Lounge.

Associate Professor of Art Gary Green, curator of Robert Adams: Turning Back, the current exhibition in the Jetté Galleries at the Colby Museum of Art, will discuss the work of Robert Adams and how it takes on the subjects of history, landscape, truth, beauty, and hope.

In this two-hour workshop, learn about prints at the museum and the variety of patterns they contain, and then create valentine cards in the museum's Mirken Education Center.

All are invited to make holiday cards using printmaking, watercolor, and stenciling. Attendance to this workshop is limited and preregistration is required. To register, call 859-5613.

Join faculty members and students in Colby’s Creative Writing Program as they read works written in response to art on view in museum galleries. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, and the Colby College Museum of Art.

Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow Justin McCann will discuss how Whistler battled the elements to capture evocative atmospheric conditions in his paintings and pastels of London and Venice.