Colby College Museum of Art

Founding Partner

The Colby College Museum of Art is a teaching museum, a destination for American art, and a place for education and engagement with local, national, and global communities. Part of Colby College, the museum actively contributes to Colby’s curricular and co-curricular programs and to the region’s quality of life. The museum and its Lunder Institute for American art inspire connections between art and people through distinctive exhibitions, programs, and publications and through an outstanding collection that emphasizes American art and contemporary art within holdings that span a broad range of cultures and time periods. In 2022, the museum opened a satellite exhibition space, the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art, presenting rotating exhibitions of contemporary art and selections from the Colby Museum’s collection, in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center.

Waterville Public Library

Founding Partner

Winner of the 2017 National Medal for Museum and Library Services and established in 1896, the Waterville Public Library is a historic Carnegie library and is a center for community and learning, a place where people of all ages connect with ideas, information, and opportunity. Library services and resources are free, open to the public and include a Business, Career & Creativity Center, public computers, wifi, local history collections, art gallery, and youth programs.

Children's Discovery Museum

For over 30 years, the Children’s Discovery Museum has invited children and families to play, learn, and grow in Augusta, Maine. The museum has encouraged tens of thousands of children to explore their world, make friends, gain confidence, and problem solve.

Colby College Center for the Arts + Humanities

The Center for the Arts and Humanities sponsors multiple programs and events open to the entire community, encouraging everyone to find meaning in their lives, to engage with the world in innovative ways, and to find inspiration in the transformative experiences that the arts and humanities make possible.

Elm City Community Music School

Elm City Community Music School is a place-based hub serving the Waterville area that provides opportunities for music making and progressive skill development for people of all ages. Creating opportunities for music making and progressive skill development in community.

Colby Arts

Situated in downtown Waterville, Greene Block + Studios enhances Waterville’s identity as an arts destination and promotes the development of creative work by Maine and national artists, educators, change agents, makers, performers, scientists, and students. The ground floor presents vibrant arts programming for people of all ages and is a space for interdisciplinary artistic exploration. Anchored by the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art, the three upper floors offer studios and research spaces for scholars, community experts, and artists.

Alfond Youth & Community Center

The Alfond Youth & Community Center (AYCC) is the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates the nation’s only merged Boys and Girls Clubs and YMCA. Located in Central Maine, the dedicated staff of the 85,000 square foot facility serves nearly 9,000 members from throughout the 50 communities of the Greater Waterville area. A true youth and community center, the AYCC boasts childcare and afterschool programs, wellness, fitness, athletics, aquatics and summer camps.