Praised by The Washington Post as playing with “marvelous virtuosity,” Alturas Duo is recognized as one of the most engaging ensembles performing chamber music today. This concert will feature new music written especially for the Duo by Leo Brouwer, Javier Farias, and Ronald Pearl as well as folk music learned in the oral tradition in …
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Music in the Museum: Alturas Duo Songs and Memory: Folk and Classical music from the Andes
You're Speaking my Language: Spanish
Join other Spanish speakers for lunch and conversation in the Colby Museum exhibition Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Explore the wide-ranging imagery produced by Chicanx political movements, enjoy a Mexican lunch, and connect with other language learners. All levels welcome!
This event is co-sponsored by the Colby College …
First Friday! Youth Art Month!
Paul J. Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St: COME CELEBRATE YOUTH ART MONTH!
4:00–7:00 p.m. Opening Reception for Youth Art Month (grades K–5)
Enjoy food, juice boxes, swag bags for youth artists, and more!
Ticonic Gallery is delighted to partner with the Colby Arts Office at Greene Block + Studios (located …
Quill Dyeing Workshop with Jessa Rae Growing Thunder
Join us for a quill dyeing workshop with Jessa Rae Growing Thunder, a third-generation beadwork and quillwork artist from the Fort Peck Assiniboine/Sioux tribes and 2024 Ossorio Fellow with Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art.
In this workshop, participants will learn about indigenous science and will use and …
Art& Radical Histories: A Conversation with Claudia Zapata
Join us in conversation with Claudia Zapata, Associate Curator of Latino Art at the Blanton Museum, and curator of Radical Histories: Chicanx Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, opening on February 6, 2025 at the Colby College Museum of Art. Zapata will speak with Julianne Gilland, Deputy Director for Planning and Operations and curatorial …
Into the Wind: American Weathervanes with Larry Kassman
Join weathervanes historian and collector Larry Kassman in conversation with Lunder Curator for American Art Sarah Humphreville as they discuss the artistic processes and historical significance of the weathervanes on view in Into the Wind: American Weathervanes. Larry Kassman, Colby ’69, has been collecting and studying weathervanes for over 45 years.
This conversation will take …
You're Speaking my Language: Chinese
Celebrate Lunar New Year at the museum by making lanterns and practicing Chinese! Local artist Evelyn Wong of Fireball Bookbindery will facilitate an artmaking workshop in English, with Mandarin instructions provided. Enjoy refreshments, connect with other language learners, and welcome the New Year with art. Open to Chinese speakers of all levels.
Co-sponsored by …
Art Break: Retrato de lo eterno (Portrait of the Eternal; Woman Combing Her Hair)
by Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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, the Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Retrato de lo eterno (Portrait of the Eternal; Woman Combing Her Hair …
Art Break: I Am Somebody: Together We Are Strong (by unidentified artist)
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, Virginia Lopez-Anido, the Coordinator of Community and Visitor Engagement, will facilitate a conversation focusing on I Am Somebody: Together We Are Strong.
Art Break programs are grounded in the …
Art Queeries
The word “reflection” can refer to the mirror images we see on shiny surfaces or to the process of thinking back on the past. How can we think about queerness with both of these definitions in mind?
Free and open to all, join us for a night of reflecting on queerness in art at the …
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