Come visit us to make your custom pinback buttons! This event is open to all ages, and is part of Joy to the Ville. For more information about other *free* Joy to the Ville events happening on Saturday December 2, please visit: www.watervillecreates.org/shows/joy-to-the-ville/ After you make your pinback button, check out our Free Bookshelf on…

Join us at the Waterville Public Library on Saturday, December 2 from 1 – 2pm, as part of your Joy to the Ville adventures! Jump on the Song Toboggan and sing-a-long with Matt Loosigian of Earth Jams. Matt is a Brunswick, ME based folk singer, guitarist, and songwriter specializing in playful, funny songs about ecology…

Paul J Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St: all day 50% off concessions at Maine Film Center 5-7pm Opening Reception for the Holiday Bazzar Join us for the opening reception of the Holiday Bazaar in conjunction with downtown Waterville’s First Friday event. Enjoy cookies and refreshments and shop lovely handmade items created by Maine makers! more on…

Embrace the holiday spirit at the 6th annual Joy to the Ville community celebration! Join Waterville Creates, the Colby College Museum of Art, the Waterville Public Library, and the Children’s Discovery Museum, as we celebrate the magic of the season. In addition to the activities listed below, the following exhibitions will be on view throughout…

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Sarah Humperville, Lunder Curator of American Art, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Being by Agnes Pelton, located in the Upper Jetté Gallery. Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking,…

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Beth Finch, head curator, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Section by Terry Winters, located in the Lower Jette Gallery. Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking, an educational…

Sequins, wine bottle labels, mirrors—how do these unconventional art materials signal queerness? How do artists bring together materials that gesture towards both the joy and grief of their queer experience? Join us in the museum galleries for guided conversations about works in Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978-1994. Participants will take a closer look…

Please join us to celebrate the opening of the 2023 Faculty Biennial exhibition at the Colby Museum. This exhibition features works in a diverse range of media by art department faculty members Bevin Engman, Gary Green, Amanda Lilleston, Audrey Shakespear, and Takahiro Suzuki. A public program featuring the artists in conversation will be held in…

Come join other Spanish learners in an exploration of the museum’s special exhibition, Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. Learn about the Southwest’s histories of Spanish colonialism and ongoing Indigenous resistance on a scavenger hunt through the galleries, practice your language skills in a low-stakes setting, and enjoy food and conversation. All levels welcome!

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Noam Reinhorn ’26, a Colby College Student, will facilitate a conversation focusing on the Final Study for The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church, located in the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Gallery. Art Break…

Directed by AB Brown and Bess Welden. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a collection of three short plays exploring the themes of girlhood and play, inspired by the Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities theme of ‘Play.’ Each play investigates the gendered, age-based, and class politics of ‘play’ and questions how play in our…