Saturday, July 13, 2024
Since the museum’s founding in 1959, the Colby College Museum of Art’s philanthropic community, its academic and artistic partners, and its local and regional neighbors have contributed to making the museum what it is today. As a leading academic museum a tone of the country’s preeminent liberal arts …
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Summer Luncheon 2024
2025 Miles and Katherine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: william cordova
… international residencies, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, The American Academy in Berlin, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His awards include Creative Capital Award (2024), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021), Art Matters Award (2020), Knight Arts Foundation Award (2022), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2011). He is co-founder of the Bass …
In Memoriam: Dorothy Lichtenstein (1939–2024)
Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, strikes a pose near the self-portrait painted by her late husband Roy Lichtenstein, Self-Portrait at an Easel, c. 1951–1952. Photo by J Caldwell.
It is with great sadness that the Colby College Museum of Art and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University …
2024 Summer Luncheon
… of friends like you.
Colby College Museum of Art proudly announces that Adam D. Weinberg D.F.A. ’07 and Sarah Workneh will be honored with the 2024 Jetté Award for Leadership in the Arts and Terry Winters with the 2024 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence.
Please learn more and get information about gifts, tickets …
Community Day 2024
Join the Colby College Museum of Art on campus for a day of free art workshops, music, food, and interactive gallery experiences for people of all ages.
Create your own works of art with Lunder Institute for American Art resident fellows at the Art Tent, play with the Children’s Discovery Museum and Colby students …
2023 Summer Luncheon
On July 8, 2023, as part of the Colby Museum’s annual Summer Luncheon, Jacqueline Terrassa, the museum’s Carolyn Muzzy director, sat down with artists Virgil Ortiz, Daniel Minter, and Paula Wilson to discuss their practice. Watch here.
Read about the festivities in Colby News.
See our awardees and participant bios.
Support or RSVP …
Summer Luncheon 2025
… the event and tickets
Christina DeYoung, Associate Director of Museum Development
207-509-1630 (mobile)
[email protected]
For sponsorship inquiries
Rae Giard, Director of Museum Development
207-509-5844 (mobile)
[email protected]
Corporate Sponsor for the 2025 Museum Summer Luncheon
Information about the awards and previous recipients can be found here.
2024 Museum …
Joy to the Ville 2023
Join us for the annual Joy to the Ville festivities at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, where we’ve teamed up with Waterville Creates, the Waterville Public Library, Maine Children’s Home, and the Children’s Discovery Museum to celebrate the enchanting spirit of the season. In addition to the following activities, you’ll …
Elm City Small Press Fest 2023
Join us for the third annual Elm City Small Press Fest! Elm City Small Press Fest is a community event that focuses on independent publishing in the Maine region. This event highlights contemporary print and publishing culture while activating conversations around creative labor and commerce as viable artistic practices. The goal of the Fest is …
2023 Faculty Biennial Exhibition Panel Discussion and Opening
… Rahn, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Maine at Augusta and Director of UMA’s Charles Danforth Gallery. A joint reception with the Faculty + Staff Mumble will follow in the museum lobby from 5–7 p.m.
The 2023 Faculty Biennial will be on view from November 9 to December 10, 2023.
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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