Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to stop by our Art + Cart for an exploration of the painting Carnations of All Sorts by Henri Fantin-Latour. Our May activity uses this painting to explore how artists can use different materials to portray flowers and celebrate spring. Saturday Art Adventures: Art + Cart…

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Join us to celebrate the opening of our 2023 Senior Exhibition featuring works by graduating Colby studio art majors. This annual exhibition offers students the opportunity to exhibit their work and participate in the museum’s exhibition process from start to finish, representing the culminating capstone projects of their studies in painting, photography, print and digital…

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Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Maggie Libby, Curator of Digital Discovery and Engagement at Special Collections & Archives, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Sanctuary by Marguerite Zorach, located in the Upper Jette Gallery. Art Break programs are…

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Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Jillian Impastato, Mirken Coordinator of Campus and Community Collaboration, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Wall Drawing #559 by Sol LeWitt, located on the wall of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion. We will meet…

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Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Masi Ngidi-Brown, associate director of the Pugh Center, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Dancer by Dara Friedman, located in the Lower Jetté Gallery. Please note: This video contains nudity. Art Break programs…

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Camp Brilliance: arts, activism, & fun Hardy Girls, in partnership with the Colby Arts Office, Greene Block + Studios, and Waterville Creates, will be holding Camp Brilliance, an arts and activism day camp for self-identified girls and nonbinary youth entering grades 5–8! The camp runs August 7–11, 2023, from 9am–3pm, at the Greene Block +…

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Food highlights a living paradox: it represents the key ingredient that binds us together, yet divides us when power dynamics and privilege are at play. By shedding light on these intricate realities, the Food for Thought Lecture Series seeks to problematize and critically assess the complex social, cultural, environmental, and political relationships that we have…

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EURYDICE – The Last Play Ever at Strider Theater! Directed by John D. Ervin and Kaylee Pomelow Book ‘19 Presented by Colby College’s Performance, Theater, and Dance Department. Fri. April 28 at 7:30pm Sat. April 29 at 7:30pm Colby College, Strider Theater, Runnals Esteemed playwright Sarah Ruhl has reimagined this classic myth from a feminist…

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The Center for the Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce that Bryant Terry is our Food for Thought Keynote speaker. Bryant Terry is a chef, food justice activist, and critically acclaimed author fighting for a more just and sustainable food system. Groundbreaking and rich, his work illuminates the intersections that exist today between poverty,…

Join us for a community conversation with Keynote Speaker Bryant Terry and Taryn D. Jordan, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Colgate University on Monday, April 3, 6:30pm, at Greene Block + Studios! The discussion will center around Black Foods, food justice, and food sovereignty. Reception will begin at 6:00 pm with catering provided by…

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Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, a spring 2023 resident fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary curator and co-founder of the culinary collective Ghetto Gastro. As longtime friends and colleagues, Gaignard and Gray each work through their respective practices on “Changing the Conversation,” seeking to shift social…

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