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Arnold Chang is a world-renowned artist, art historian, appraiser, and connoisseur who has taught and written extensively about Chinese painting. He served as Director of the Chinese Paintings Department at Sotheby’s and was a specialist... more >
Artist and educator Luis Camnitzer, whose conceptual artwork, The Museum Is a School, occupies the façade of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, will combine a personal reflection on revolution with a prescription for renewal without complacency... more >
Artist Leonardo Drew will present the Museum’s annual Prentice Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Number 104, 2005, currently on view in the Museum’s Gordon Gallery.
Guatemalan performance artist and poet Regina José Galindo is bringing her deeply moving and transformative artwork to Colby. She has gained international fame for dramatic works highlighting dictatorship, torture, and the sexual abuse of women.... more >
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.
Through her art and architecture, Maya Lin explores landscape as a reflection of time, history, and memory. In this lecture organized in conjunction with Colby College’s 2015–16 humanities theme, Human/Nature, Lin will speak about her work and What... more >
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.
Based on historical and personal photographs, Jen Casad’s meticulous graphite drawings capture the working culture of Maine’s fishing industry, a life she knows well through her own work as a clam digger. Organized in conjunction... more >
Jackie Brown’s primary focus is sculpture installation. She works to create immersive environments that invite the viewer into imagined biological systems, where it’s often ambiguous whether the forms are benign or toxic. An important undercurrent... more >
Photographer, Emmet Gowin will speak about his recent work in Ecuador, Panama, and Bolivia. The Studio Artist Lecture series is organized by Colby’s Art Department.
