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Art Break: Rounding Rosie's Ring: Dance, You Fools, Dance by Gladys Nilsson

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Lisa Wheeler, the Education Manager at Waterville Creates, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Rounding Rosie’s Ring: Dance, You Fools, Dance by Gladys Nilsson in the exhibition Alive & Kicking …


Art Break: T.E. Siegen by Richard Serra

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Elisa Germán, Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies, will facilitate a conversation focusing on T.E. Siegen by Richard Serra in the exhibition Surface Tension: Etchings from …


Art Break: Untitled by Donald Judd

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Tyler French, Associate Director of Artistic Planning and Community Engagement in Colby Arts Office, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Untitled by Donald Judd.
Art Break programs are grounded in …


Art Break: Thanks by Benny Andrews

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Augusta Weiss, the Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Thanks by Benny Andrews.
Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking, an …


Art Break: Animales Domésticos by Catalina Schliebener-Muñoz

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Serena Sanborn, the Manager of Outreach + Community Partnerships at Waterville Creates, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Animales Domésticos by Catalina Schliebener-Muñoz in the exhibition Alive & Kicking: Fantastic Installations …


Art Break: Cityscape with Blue Shadow by Martha Diamond

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Maggie Libby, the Curator of Digital Discovery at the Colby Library, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Cityscape with Blue Shadow by Martha Diamond in the exhibition Martha Diamond: Deep …


Art & American Stories

Join special guest speakers, Colby faculty, curators, and community members for a series of brief gallery talks exploring themes and topics in Some American Stories, a new presentation of art from the collection. On view across the museum’s Lunder Wing, this installation examines American art and its histories from a variety of perspectives. Celebrate …


Into the Windlyn: Post Pardon, The Opera in the Museum

To develop Post Pardon: The Opera, choreographer Laurel Jenkins has invited Maine-based dancers Katherine Ferrier, Annie Kloppenberg, and Liz Mulkey to create “wind scores” in response to the exhibition Into the Wind: American Weathervanes at the Colby College Museum of Art. Cellist Robin Lane and poet-librettist Arisa White will accompany the two thirty …


Art Queeries

What do lasagna pans, the Children’s song “Ring-around-the-Rosie,” and the Disney film Aristocats have in common? How can we use images of aging and stories of coming-of-age to think about queerness?
Join us for a night of exploring queerness in art at the Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz …


Art Break: Sky by Martha Diamond

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s galleries. This week, Kiko Aebi, Katz Curator, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Sky by Martha Diamond in the exhibition Martha Diamond: Deep Time.
Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of …


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
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