Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Priscilla Doel, museum docent, will lead the program, focusing on Acoma by Thomas Moran, located in the Osher Gallery.
Talking as a group about works of art can offer us new ways …
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Thomas Moran, Acoma, 1902. Oil on canvas, 20 in. x 30 in. (50.8 …
… at Eastman Johnson and Maine and Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. These guided experiences will be led by staff, student interns, and our museum educators, offering special insight into each exhibition.
Artist unknown (Acoma Pueblo), Acoma Water Vessel, n.d. Earthenware, 8 in.
Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of Adelaide Pearson; 1960.146.
… for celebratory food and drinks in the Colby Museum lobby. Free and open to all.
Saturday, November 4
10–10:45 am: Opening address from Brian Vallo (Acoma Pueblo)
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
Brian Vallo served as governor of Acoma Pueblo in 2019–21, formerly directed the Indian Arts Research Center, and …
… for celebratory food and drinks in the Colby Museum lobby. Free and open to all.
Saturday, November 4
10–10:45 am: Opening address from Brian Vallo (Acoma Pueblo)
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
Brian Vallo served as governor of Acoma Pueblo in 2019–21, formerly directed the Indian Arts Research Center, and …
… experiences and knowledge. Is there anything that reminds you of your own life, or does this work of art teach you something new?
Digital jigsaw puzzles from the Colby Museum collection:
George Caleb Bingham, Landscape with Fisherman
Grafton Tyler Brown, Yellowstone Falls
John George Brown, Watching the Circus
Winslow Homer, The Trapper
Thomas Moran, Acoma
… has been featured and acquired in permanent collection by numerous institutions and galleries including the Portland Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Bates College, University of Southern Maine, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Bates College Museum of Art, The David …
… held seventy-two Native American prisoners from the so-called Red River War, a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes from the Southern Plains. On the reverse is a drawing divided horizontally by a gentle undulating line that ingeniously functions to …
