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Quill Dyeing Workshop with Jessa Rae Growing Thunder

Join us for a quill dyeing workshop with Jessa Rae Growing Thunder, a third-generation beadwork and quillwork artist from the Fort Peck Assiniboine/Sioux tribes. She is a current Fellow with the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute of American Art.
In this workshop, participants will learn about indigenous science and will …


Art& Radical Histories: A Conversation with Claudia Zapata

Join us in conversation with Claudia Zapata, Associate Curator of Latino Art at the Blanton Museum, and curator of Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, opening on February 6, 2025 at the Colby College Museum of Art. Zapata will speak with Julianne Gilland, Deputy Director for Planning and Operations and curatorial …


Into the Wind: American Weathervanes with Larry Kassman

Join weathervanes historian and collector Larry Kassman in conversation with Lunder Curator for American Art Sarah Humphreville as they discuss the artistic processes and historical significance of the weathervanes on view in Into the Wind: American Weathervanes. Larry Kassman, Colby ’69, has been collecting and studying weathervanes for over 45 years.
This conversation will take …


You're Speaking my Language: Chinese

Celebrate Lunar New Year at the museum by making lanterns and practicing Chinese! Local artist Evelyn Wong of Fireball Bookbindery will facilitate an artmaking workshop in English, with Mandarin instructions provided. Enjoy refreshments, connect with other language learners, and welcome the New Year with art. Open to Chinese speakers of all levels.
Co-sponsored by …



Art Break: I Am Somebody: Together We Are Strong (by unidentified artist)

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Virginia Lopez-Anido, the Coordinator of Community and Visitor Engagement, will facilitate a conversation focusing on I Am Somebody: Together We Are Strong.
Art Break programs are grounded in the …


Art Queeries

The word “reflection” can refer to the mirror images we see on shiny surfaces or to the process of thinking back on the past. How can we think about queerness with both of these definitions in mind?
Free and open to all, join us for a night of reflecting on queerness in art at the …


Art Break: Laburnum Tree by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Danae Lagoy, Museum Art Preparator, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Laburnum Tree by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking, an educational …


Art Break: Durand's Homage to the Mohawks by Kay WalkingStick

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Sarah Humphreville, the Lunder Curator of American Art, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Durand’s Homage to the Mohawks by Kay WalkingStick.
Art Break programs are grounded in the …


Art Break: La Llorona Desperately Seeking Coyolxauhqui by Alma Lopez

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Angela Gallegos, the Academic Engagement Intern, will facilitate a conversation focusing on La Llorona Desperately Seeking Coyolxauhqui by Alma Lopez
Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow …


Banner Image: Sanford Robinson Gifford, A Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1864, Oil on canvas, 10 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in., The Lunder Collection, 2013.130
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