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James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty

Given Auditorium, Bixler Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Screening of the 2014 PBS documentary James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty. Discussion and Q&A with Justin McCann, Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies Fellow, to follow. Cosponsored by the Cinema Studies Program and the Colby Museum of Art.

Free

The Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies: Museum Education and Impact in the 21st Century

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

Join us for a conversation featuring Martha Tedeschi, Deptuy Director for Art and Research, Art Institute of Chicago, on the transformative role of art museums as centers for teaching, learning, and mentorship. Panelists include Tanya Sheehan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Colby College; Francesca Soriano, Colby College ’16; Justin McCann Lunder […]

Free

Whistler: Nature and Nation

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

This symposium is dedicated to the exploration of how American artists working abroad or exposed to an international milieu in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries reimagined ideas of nature and nation in light of their global experiences. Cosponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Art Department, and […]

Free

Icicles on the Nose, Frost in the Studio: Whistler and the Weather

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

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.

Free
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