Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Jillian Impastato, Mirken Coordinator of Campus and Community Collaboration, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Janus by Ken Tisa, located in the Lower Jetté Gallery.
Art Break programs are grounded in the …
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Art Break: Janus by Ken Tisa
Remixed Wearables Workshop: Printing on Fabric with Paula Wilson
Join Lunder Institute for American Art Ossorio Fellow Paula Wilson for a free workshop on remixing, reusing, and upcycling clothing and other fabrics. Wilson will teach attendees how to create stamps for printing on fabric, followed by a guided printmaking session on t-shirts, banners, and more.
All printmaking materials all provided, including t-shirts …
Robert Mirabal and Rare Tribal Mob
Robert Mirabal is an internationally respected Pueblo musician and Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. An award-winning musician and leading proponent of world music, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Join us for this special concert to experience Mirabal’s music with a full …
Art Break: Meeting by Alex Katz
Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby Museum’s gallery spaces. This week, Andrew Witte, Mirken Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Meeting by Alex Katz, located in the Parker Poe Charitable Trust Gallery.
Art Break programs are grounded …
First Friday, Downtown Waterville Opening Celebration for Bill Morrison: Cycles and Loops
Join the Colby College Museum of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, 93 Main Street, for an exhibition opening celebration for Bill Morrison: Cycles and Loops. The evening includes remarks, exhibition introductions, activities, and refreshments. This program is part of the monthly First Friday offerings across downtown Waterville.
5:30 and 6:30 …
Frame by Frame: Paris is Burning
Join us for a free screening of Paris is Burning (1990, 1h 18m), a stunning documentary that chronicles the New York drag scene in the 1980s. Following the screening, hear from Aquarius Funkk, a Maine-raised performance artist who has been active in the drag/ballroom scene in Maine, across the country, and abroad. This …
Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts and Village Symposium
Join the Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art for a two-day symposium organized in conjunction with the Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village exhibition, on view through July 28, 2024.
Exhibition collaborators, artists, curators, and scholars will gather for a series of panel discussions on Native American art …
Let Freedom Read: An All Ages Storytime in Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978-1994
Join the Colby College Museum of Art for an all ages storytime marking the first day of the American Library Association’s Let Freedom Read: Banned Books Week, October 1-7, 2023.
This program will take place in the Come Closer: Selections from the Collection, 1978-1994 exhibition, which presents artworks from the Colby Museum …
Common Ground Country Fair: Reflecting on Maine’s Fiber Industry: Art-Making + Dialogue
Join the Colby College Museum of Art for an interactive dialogue and hands-on art-making workshop at the 2023 Common Ground Country Fair. This 80-minute workshop will use works of art to explore personal and historical connections to the fiber industry in Maine. We will focus on a historical work, The Spinners by …
Common Ground Country Fair: Reflecting on Maine’s Fiber Industry: Art-Making + Dialogue
Join the Colby College Museum of Art for an interactive dialogue and hands-on art-making workshop at the 2023 Common Ground Country Fair. This 80-minute workshop will use works of art to explore personal and historical connections to the fiber industry in Maine. We will focus on a historical work, The Spinners by …
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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