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Projects, Programs, and Partnerships

Chefs in Residence

Man setting table.

Ghetto Gastro

Four individuals seated on a stage.

Painted Symposium

Six seated individuals on stage beneath a powerpoint presentation for panel discussion to a seated audience

Elm City Small Press Fest

What Is Missing?

Research Symposium: Art by African Americans

Teaching with Primary Sources: Innovative Approaches to Archives

Two seated individuals speaking over materials.

Occupy Colby

Phong Bui gesturing to painting in front of a group of museum visitors.

Black Artists Retreat

Eight artists standing together in front of a brick wall looking directly at the camera.

Maine Makers’ Map

Theaster Gates on Land

Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies

Wabanaki Artist Convening

The Lunder Institute has engaged in a partnership with and led by Wabanaki community members, generously funded by the Terra Foundation. In spring 2023, previous Lunder Institute fellow Sarah Sockbeson (Penobscot) independently organized a convening of Wabanaki artists to generate a list of goals that attending artists felt were needed to better support their practices and community capacity for art making. In 2024, the Lunder Institute hosted a second, two-part convening to provide a space for Sockbeson and these Wabanaki artists to continue discussing shared needs and hopes. The Lunder Institute was able to expand on Sockbeson’s previous gathering, including more voices and additional dialogue to develop frameworks within the institution that can effectively impact the Colby Museum’s commitments to fellowships for Indigenous artists through the Lunder Institute. The convening also provided time and space to develop and plan a 2026 Colby Museum exhibition, co-curated by Sockbeson, that includes work by Wabanaki artists from the group.