Join us for Art in the Park, a free event series for all ages and abilities! This week, Get into the festival spirit with animation, braiding, and dancing stories at this special workshop inspired by the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF).
Spin into creativity with lazy Susan animation! Explore simple spinning animation tools and create …
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Art in the Park – Animation, Braiding, and Dancing Stories
Art in the Park – Animal-themed Self-Portraits
Join us for Art in the Park, a free event series for all ages and abilities! This week, we’ll create animal-themed self-portraits inspired by our exhibition, Love Your Langlais: a Community Curates.
Maine artist Bernard Langlais’s whimsical work is filled with depictions of animals, including self-portraits of him as a …
Art in the Park – Build Your own Assemblage Sculptures
Join us for Art in the Park, a free event series for all ages and abilities! This week, get creative and build your own assemblage sculptures inspired by play and artist Bernard Langlais using wood, paint, and hot glue—turning everyday materials into one-of-a-kind artworks.
Inspired by The World Belongs to Us …
Art in the Park – Celebrate Pride with Crafts and Community
Join us for Art in the Park, a free event series for all ages and abilities! This week, celebrate Pride with crafts and community with special guests from the Waterville Youth Council.
Make colorful friendship bracelets and Pride-themed crafts that celebrate identity and inclusion and enjoy a read-aloud of Peanut Goes for the …
June First Friday: Pride!
Join us for June First Friday!
Celebrate Pride with the Colby College Museum of Art!
Make unique handmade prints with local printmaker Nicole Manganelli from Radical Emprints. All levels welcome and free! We will be joined by Waterville Creates and LGBTQIA+ makers and vendors tabling their creations at The Hub from 5pm-7pm.
Nicole Manganelli …
Love Your Langlais Opening Reception
Join us for the opening celebration for Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates, on view June 18–October 20, 2025.
Celebrating a beloved Maine artist, this project invited the Waterville community to help choose the works in the exhibition and now visitors can vote on their favorite works on display!
We will be joined by …
Frame by Frame: Georgia O'Keeffe
Join us for a free screening of Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light (2025, 2h), a feature-length documentary about the fascinating and complicated story of one of the founders of American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe. Before the film, there will be a fun and interactive opportunity to take a deeper look at a …
Community Day
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 …
Six Art Books to Read This April
Six Art Books to Read This April
Hyperallergic, April 6, 2025.
Illuminating Queer Materials: Uncovering Queerness in Picture Books, Medieval and Modern
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 …
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