Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Kate McCowan, Downtown Gallery Assistant, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Remodeled, by Paula Wilson, located in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at Paul J. Schupf Art Center, downtown Waterville. Art Break…
Each Thursday, join us to spend thirty minutes with one work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Tessa Greene O’Brien, a Maine-based artist, curator, and Lunder Institute of American Art residential fellow, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Burning House, Night, Vertical by Lois Dodd, located in the Bernard and Barbro…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Karen Shi ’25, a Colby Museum student assistant, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Winter Evening, by George Inness, located in the Osher Gallery. Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of…
Each Thursday, join us to spend thirty minutes with one work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Joshua Veilleux, Downtown Gallery Assistant, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Jojo, by Ashley Bryan, located in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at Paul J. Schupf Art Center, downtown Waterville. Art…
Move and groove every Friday, March 3–April 7, 9:30–10:30am. Bring your little person and come find the groove in this creative movement class. The class will offer a loose and playful structure for both caregiver and child to explore yoga poses and dance moves in order to inspire a playful creative connection between each other.…
The Internet’s Underwear: Bern Porter, Mail Art, & The Eternal Network A Show-and-Tell by SHEILA HOLTZ & SCOTT HUG Take off the clothing of the 21st Century World Wide Web and what do you find? Its foundational garment – the Mail Art movement of the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. This cultural phenomenon has been…
This gentle morning movement class celebrates the positive impact that the arts can have on connecting with our community, enriching our lives, and bettering our health. Join in the fun as we share stories, move our bodies, and make dances about anything and everything. No dance experience is required. This intergenerational class is for people…
Experience firsthand capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that combines dance, music, language, and acrobatics. Kenny Harris has worked with renowned capoeira mestres and will lead participants of all experience levels through the elements of the form. Developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil during the 16th century, capoeira is practiced all over the world and…
Join us for a hybrid program, “Art&: On grace, learned from Karen: Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Daisy Desrosiers, Beth Finch, and Maple Razsa.” The program delves into the research process of Naeem Mohaiemen, a 2020–21 senior fellow of the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art and the inaugural recipient of the Alfonso Ossorio…
Mary Beth Mills presents “Between Commensality and Coloniality: Cooking Schools and Culinary Tourism in Thailand,” part of the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities Food For Thought lecture series. Mary Beth Mills is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. She teaches courses on contemporary Asia, gender and sexuality, political ecology,…
Portland Ballet and Colby College Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance collaborate to bring to life an evening of work featuring an expanded company of dancers. Joining forces again after their celebrated partnership in 2018, this performance will thrill classical and contemporary fans alike. Featuring a new work, based on research conducted with Colby students…
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Megan Adams, Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Shea Doing Crochet Braids in her Cousin Andrea’s Hair for Andrea’s Cousin’s Wedding, Flint, Michigan, from the series Flint…
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