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This annual community-wide celebration is hosted at the Colby Museum on campus in late July. Free and for all ages, the museum brings local partner organizations, businesses, community groups, and artists in for a day of art making, games, tours, music, performances, and food. Each year this event draws more than eight hundred neighbors …

Join us for a symposium on queer book arts at Colby College featuring two scholars, Melanie Holcomb and Aiden Bettine, who explore queer history and communities through illustrated books.
Holcomb, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines medieval art and archival materials from queer perspectives, while Bettine, an archivist and book artist at …

Come savor art with words.
Artist and writer John Paul Caponigro and poet Richard Blanco will lead a special event designed to deepen and diversify your enjoyment of art with creative writing (ekphrasis). After setting the stage by reading a few famous ekphrastic writings, Richard and John Paul will guide participants through a series of …

Drawing upon movement, durational practice, institutional critique, and spoken word, artists in “Performing Future Spaces” use performance to explore, illuminate, and challenge museum spaces and histories.
Performances take place in the galleries and public spaces of the Colby College Museum of Art. Artists in this temporary exhibition include Travis Bendler ’26, Chris Campbell ’27, Fiona …

Part of a campus-wide Earth Week, celebrate the planet through art at the Colby Museum’s Thursday Art Party on Thursday, April 17 from 6–8 p.m.!
Join us in the lobby to decorate glass jars, play games courtesy of the Board Game Club, and enjoy music from DJ TK. Partygoers can also …

Join us in celebrating the opening of the 2025 Senior Exhibition on Thursday May 8, 5–7 p.m. at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center.
Remarks and awards will begin at 5 p.m. in the lobby before the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery opens to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
The …