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1968: “Sensitive Humanity” and Black Radicalism

Hobby Lobby 130 Elm Plaza, Waterville, ME

Exhibition opens Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.  

Free

Darkness Visible

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. In the last years of the eighteenth century, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) conceived a series of prints guided solely, he professed, by his imagination. Los Caprichos, or the Caprices, is the whimsical title Goya gave to his project, yet the series’ images are far from lighthearted. For […]

Free

Nancy Spero: Unbound

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Exhibition opens Thursday, Sept 13, 2018. For more than five decades, Nancy Spero (1926–2009) pioneered a feminist art practice that fiercely defied the social expectations imposed on women. Using a lexicon of appropriated imagery, Spero envisioned, as she observed in 1987, “all manner of processions, conflicts, interruptions and disruptions.” Her hybrid artworks made in protest […]

Free

Love Without Limits

Pugh Center, Cotter Union, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Featuring Colby students Alexis Atkinson ’15, Milton Guillén ’15, and Anne Vetter ’17 with Sonja Thomas, associate professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a conversation about representation in the arts sector, self-expression in repressive cultures and institutions, the intersection of art and activism, and what it means to put yourself into your work. Inspired […]

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Colby Museum of Art Open House

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The Fall Open House celebrates the exhibitions that will be on view during the Fall 2019 semester with live music, demonstrations, art-making, gallery experiences, refreshments, and opportunities to learn about upcoming programs. Click for more info.

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Moby Dick

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

The great John Huston’s (The Maltese Falcon, Wise Blood, The Dead) classic film adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is, like all of Huston’s work, truly one of a kind. Set in the 19th century New England, the film follows the sole survivor of the lost whaling ship Pequod and its captain, Ahab’s (Gregory […]

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2020 Senior Exhibition

Colby’s graduating class of studio art majors have been working hard all year on their capstone work. Starting Friday, May 15, photographs, videos, artist statements, and more will be available via a special link shared by the Colby Museum of Art's Facebook Page. Follow the Colby Museum's social media channels for more information. The countdown […]

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