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Current Exhibitions

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  • Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas

    Exhibition Details
    A vertical portrait of a person whose face and neck are covered in white pigment. Their head and face are tightly bound in a grid-like "trap" or cage made of pink and black braided fabric. The subject looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a plain white background.
  • By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth

    Exhibition Details
    A photograph of a dimly lit, rustic wooden attic space. In the center of the dark wooden floor, an open rectangular hatch leads to the floor below. A small window on the left lets in bright white light, and a single lit wall sconce glows near a slanted ceiling beam. A mysterious, faint blue horizontal blur floats in the center of the frame.
  • Alex Katz | Out of Sight: A Drawing Survey

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    An abstract ink wash painting in reddish-orange on white paper, featuring thick, vertical strokes and gestural blotches that suggest a dense thicket of trees.
  • Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West

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    Black and white portrait of Tseng Kwong Chi standing in front of the Hollywood sign.
  • Alex Katz: Quick Things Passing

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    A vertical composition featuring a light-grey and white tree trunk positioned slightly off-center. The trunk is surrounded by a lush canopy of vibrant green leaves, rendered in flat, rhythmic dabs of light and dark green paint. The perspective looks slightly upward into the bright foliage.
  • Some American Stories

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    Decorative vessel with a textured, spiky surface and blue accents on a dark background.

Upcoming Events

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  • Life-Scale Image Transfer Workshop: Spolvero and the Scaled Figure with N. Sean Glover

    Exhibition Details
    Image of a moon on paper and material used for spolvero on a surface covered in dark pigment.
  • National Voter Registration Day with Colby Votes

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    Person screenprinting in front of the museum by a larger screenprint screen reading, "I am a voter".
  • Art Break: Man With Newspaper on the Subway by Alex Katz

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    Line drawing of man reading a newspaper while sitting in a packed subway car.
  • MATAO [in process] by Gi Matan Guma’

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    Gi Matan Guma' performers holding up white cloth to form a roof over a performer seated in a chair.
  • Art Break: New Suns by Claire Pentecost

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  • First Friday! Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival + Maine Lit Fest

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    Children and adults gathered around a table with books and art-making supplies.
  • Lunder Institute @ Colby College Museum of Art

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    A panel of four speakers seated on stage during a public talk titled "American art in a global world." The speakers face a seated audience in a grand room with sage-green walls, white-trimmed arched windows, and a large display screen showing the presentation title on the right.
  • Drop-in Drawing: Quick Things Passing with Luke Johnson

    Exhibition Details
    Sketch on sheet of paper with visible perforation marks along the left edge. On the left, a man wearing a fedora and a suit jacket leans forward, focusing on a newspaper held in his hands. To his right, the partial figures of other commuters are suggested, including the torso of a person in a double-breasted coat and a hand gripping a vertical subway pole in the background.