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Lunder Institute Fellow artist E. Saffronia Downing working with clay

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Lunder Institute fellow welcoming three visitors into their studio
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Artist Lynn Daphne Rudolph performing at The Broad
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Summer Think Tank

Performance artist on her knees in a gallery in front of an audience casts her gaze upward and spreads her arms out behind her
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Summer Think Tank participants convening, seated in a circle
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Past Projects, Programs, Partnerships

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Throughout its history, the Lunder Institute has organized a variety of special projects, events, and initiatives in partnership with other institutions and key collaborators.

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Reimagining American Art on the Global Stage

A medium close-up photograph of Erica Wall, director of the Lunder Institute for American Art, speaking behind a wooden podium with a microphone. She is smiling broadly and looking slightly to the right, illuminated by warm stage lighting against a softly blurred background.
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2026–27 FELLOWSHIPS AT COLBY MUSEUM’S LUNDER INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART

A graphic featuring square headshots of five fellows arranged in two rows against a light beige background. Top row: Matthew Villar Miranda, Jerome Reyes and Ruby Sky Stiler. Bottom row: Alana Dao and meg willing, both labeled "A CLEARING," alongside Gwyneth Shanks.
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Whistler and Colby—Together in London

An oil painting showing the side profile of a woman with long, thick auburn hair facing left. She wears a textured, loose-fitting cream or light-grey dress with vertical folds on the bodice. Her hands are loosely clasped at her waist. She stands against a backdrop featuring a dark wooden balcony or ledge in the lower left, a green landscape with trees in the middle ground, and a cloudy pale blue and grey sky above. The painting has a soft tonalist style with visible brushwork.
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With Deep Colby Connections, a Whistler Retrospective is a ‘Luscious, Seductive Blockbuster’

An oil painting on canvas rendered in a muted, atmospheric palette of greys, soft blues, and ochres. It depicts a misty river landscape under a hazy, overcast sky. In the upper right, a small dark steamboat plies the water, emitting a plume of pale smoke. The background shows a dark, silhouetted shoreline with industrial chimneys rising on the left. In the foreground, a path or bank is populated by simplified, silhouetted figures—including a couple standing near bare, slender trees on the right and a small group near the left.
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