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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 …

Art Break: Han Dynasty Horse and Rider

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, Phoebe Zipper, the museum’s Linde Family Foundation Educator for College Audiences, will facilitate a conversation focusing on Han Dynasty Horse and Rider.
Art Break programs are grounded in the …

Frame by Frame Martha Diamond

For the modernist painter Martha Diamond and the Russian director Alexander Sukorov, time is a mirage that unfolds on an extravagant scale. Join us for a free screening of Russian Ark (2002, 1h 39m), a gauzy journey through Russian history, shot entirely within the State Hermitage Museum in a single take. The film will be …

Art Break: The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp by Eastman Johnson -- Cancelled

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, Jillian Impastato, the Mirken Coordinator of Campus Collaborations, will facilitate a conversation focusing on The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp by Eastman Johnson in the exhibition Eastman Johnson and …

Square + Triangle: Home in the Colby Museum’s Collection

The phrase “square + triangle” describes an iconic image of a home: four walls and a gable roof. It is easy to draw, and references a common visual language. But what complexities does this simple representation obscure?

Artists have visualized a broad range of feelings and associations with the idea of home. They reveal that home …

Discussion Project with the Colby Museum: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Join us for a discussion of the graphic novel, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel in the Colby Museum’s exhibition Alive & Kicking: Fantastic Installations by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, and Gladys Nilsson. The text and exhibition both center themes of aging, intergenerational connections, high/low culture, and storytelling. As with all Maine Humanities …

Music in the Museum: Élan Wind Quintet, “The Light is the Same”

Colby music associates and guests will present a program celebrating diversity in the modern music landscape through underrepresented living composers. Featuring works by Reena Esmail, Jennifer Higdon, Valerie Coleman and Leonardo Cárdenas. This performance is funded in part by the Hazel Hoyt Witherell Concert Fund.

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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