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When vividly recalled, is the past not truly present? Not bygone, but by (with) us? Comprising Raffael Scheck, cello, and Tim Burris, lute and guitar, ScheckMate performs works from bygone eras on period instruments (re)sounding in the moment. They will present pieces by Gabrielli, Kapsberger, Weber, Tárrega, and Villa-Lobos. Location: Alex Katz Gallery, Colby Museum of […]
After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art.
After a brief exploration of the Museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.
The museum invites adults and children of all ages to drop in and make glowing holiday ornaments using decorative paper, LED lights and button batteries. This free workshop is open to ages 5 and up. No RSVP required.
With the TUG Collective: Gustavo Aguilar, conceptual design, composer/performer; Gaelyn Aguilar, video ethnography; and G. Daniel Lopez, photography. In 1996 interdisciplinary artist and Colby music associate Gustavo Aguilar experienced a moment of psychic disequilibrium that prompted him to examine what it meant to identify as an American artist. The result is Ah, Raza! A Q&A […]
Diana Tuite, curator of the exhibition Self and Society: The Norma Boom Marin Collection of German Expressionist Prints, will be joined by Katherine Hollander, faculty fellow in history, for a discussion of Germany’s social, political, and cultural upheaval during and after World War I.
The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to host (AO), a series of performances by visiting artist Torkwase Dyson and invited collaborators that explore the ways in which forms of visual art, literature, and science respond to distance and distortion. The afternoon will unfold through embodied experiences in and around Dyson’s exhibition Nautical Dusk, curated […]
After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.
Artist and writer Jenna Crowder will speak with Carly Glovinski about the list of books, essays, and poems that Crowder developed in resonance with Glovinski’s exhibition Currents 8. Introduced by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibition.
Julianne Gilland, deputy director, and Véronique Plesch, professor of art, discuss the paired exhibitions Darkness Visible: Goya Prints from the Lunder Collection and Nancy Spero: Unbound. Introduction by Beth Finch, curator of the exhibitions. Location: Lower Jetté Galleries, Colby Museum of Art.
Come celebrate Halloween with the Museum as we “trick-or-treat” through the Museum galleries as tarot card readers predict your future, enjoy festive food, drinks, and live music by Peace Brother. Art-inspired costumes are encouraged with prizes! This program is open to all ages, 21+, bring ID. Co-sponsored by the Museum Student Advisory Board, Student Programming […]
Caroline Webb ’19 presents her research for the exhibition Seeing Otherwise — a collaboration with Professor Catherine Besteman and Chloé Powers ’19. A culmination of a visual culture lab, Seeing Otherwise explores relationships among mobility, sovereignty, displacement, identity, and community.
< Colby Music Associate Mark Leighton presents music from Maestro Segovia’s prodigious repertoire, from compositions written for him to his transcriptions and arrangements of traditional classical guitar pieces. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, Colby College Museum of Art.
Make your own creative masks in the museum’s Mirken Education Classroom. This free event is open to all ages; reservations are not required.
After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art.
Join us for a celebration of our fall exhibitions with a reception, guided tours, hands-on printmaking with Pickwick Independent Press from Portland, brews from Waterville Brewery, food from Salty Dogs BBQ and Catering, and live music from Jelly Sauce.
Duane Edwards Quartet performs selections from their upcoming album. Duncan Hardy (sax), Evan Haines (guitar), and Cameron Lopez (drums) perform modern jazz with a nod to the history and development of the form. Location: Paul J. Schupf Wing, Colby Museum of Art.
Join us for a language-based social event. This is a great opportunity to practice your language skills and converse with other art lovers. This event is brought to you in collaboration with Project Pengyou and the East Asian Studies Department at Colby College. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art.
Carly Glovinski has generated a group of works for a two-part exhibition that will be shown concurrently at the Colby Museum and the Waterville Public Library. In its presentation of painted, cast, and woven forms, the exhibition manifests what Glovinski calls a “viewshed,” a term she has adopted from terrain analysis to describe her associative […]
After a brief exploration of the museum, we will read a children’s book related to the month’s theme. Preschoolers, toddlers, and their grownups will then be invited to the Mirken Education Classroom to have a snack and create their own works of art. Location: William D. Adams Gallery, Colby Museum of Art
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 […]
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 […]
The Cassatt String Quartet presents music from around the world with guest sitar player/composer Vineet Shende from Bowdoin College. The performance will feature instrument demonstrations and musical works from India, Russia, the United States, Argentina, Germany, and Romania. This program is open to all ages — families are encouraged to attend.
Join us for refreshments, art making for all ages, games, docent-led tours, and live music by Gent Treadly.
Honoring the artist Rackstraw Downes with the Colby Museum’s 2018 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence and celebrating the exhibitions: Self and Society: The Norma Boom Marin Collection of German Expressionist Prints Modern Wonder: The John Marin Collection City of Ambition: Photography of the Collection Contemporary Highlights On the Farm: Weathervanes from a Distinguished New England Collection This signature ticketed […]