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Through a temporary sound installation within the exhibition, All in One: Selections from the Alex Katz Foundation, Colby students are transforming the gallery experience with sonic narratives. The audio compositions create an immersive environment for a multisensory engagement with art. This program is presented as a part of Assistant Professor José Martinez’s music course …

Join us for a night at the museum, curated by the Colby Museum Student Board. Design tote bags inspired by Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, watch student dance and theater performances in the galleries, participate in a scavenger hunt, and enjoy music and refreshments, including alcoholic beverages for ages 21+ (two tickets per person).

Each Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Siera Hyte, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, will facilitate the conversation, focusing on Sparkle Knot III by Lynda Benglis, located in All in One: Selections from the Alex Katz Foundation …

Practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by artworks in the Alex Katz: Theater and Dance exhibition, now on view at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Our Let Art Inspire: Yoga in the Galleries sessions begin with a deeper look at an artwork, followed by yoga and meditation led by Kathleen Leisure Haberstock …

Polaris (Music by Donald York)
Scudorama (Music by Clarence Jackson)
Sunset (Music by Edward Elgar)
Diggity (Music by Donald York)
World-renowned painter Alex Katz first collaborated with Paul Taylor in 1960 and designed sets and costumes for sixteen Taylor dances. The four amazing works on this program provided this incomparable artist with a canvas …

Join us for a workshop that brings together photography, meditation, and movement in two unique environments—the museum’s galleries and outdoor campus trails. The workshop will be led by Elizabeth Greenberg, photographer/educator, and Susan Osberg, meditation/movement practitioner. We will begin with gentle movement activities in Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, followed by …

… work of art on view in the galleries at the Colby Museum. This week, Levi Prombaum, Colby Museum Katz Consulting Curator, will facilitate the program, focusing on Alex Katz’s 2022 “Dance” series located in the Alex Katz: Theater and Dance exhibition (Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz).
Art Break is …

… the Colby Jazz Collective, featuring Colby music department faculty playing a collection of well-known tunes from the standard Jazz repertoire. Visit the Museum’s special exhibitions—Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, All in One: Selections from the Katz Foundation Collection, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, and Sarah Cain: hand in hand. Enjoy food and …

… ideas about what he wants from his life in a country where traditionalism reigns in the world of dance, and in society as whole. This film series is inspired by the exhibition, Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, on view now at the Colby College Museum of Art.
This screening is free and open to all.