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Join the student curators of the installation Zao in Context as they discuss and interpret artworks that contextualize the exhibition No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki.
Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art Ankeney Weitz, co-curator of No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki, will discuss the calligraphic impulse in the artist’s paintings.
Join us for the opening celebration of the Senior Art Show. This annual show brings together art created by Colby seniors who have completed extensive work in their chosen media.
University of Southern Maine Professor of Art History and chair of the art department Kim Grant will discuss strategies used by Surrealist writers and artists in the 1920s to undermine accepted reality and foment revolution. Tea... more >
Afro-Cuban artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons invites you to a collaborative performance with musicians, visual art, and a poetry reading. Organized by the Art Department with the support of the Colby College Museum of Art, Center... more >
Enjoy a celebration of the Museum’s new exhibitions, Anna Jermolaewa: Leninopad (Leninfall), Graphic Matters: George Bellows and World War I, and No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki. 4:30–6 pm Gallery tours and art making for all ages 6:30–8:30 pm Live... more >
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and her students in Art 471/French 381, Picasso’s Suite Vollard and Its Contexts, will discuss the artist’s work and their experiences interacting with the prints.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Mariola Alvarez, and artist Peter Soriano discuss Soriano’s Permanent Maintenance wall drawings. Cosponsored by the Art Department and the Museum.
Associate Professor at the Maine College of Art and printmaker Elizabeth A. Jabar creates hybrid works on paper that explore ideas of ethnicity and heritage.
