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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 >
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 >
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 >
Noted writers, scholars, artists, public officials, and community members will discuss solutions to economic and conservation challenges faced by communities in Maine, New England, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit web.colby.edu/communitycultureconservation/
Noted writers, scholars, artists, public officials, and community members will discuss solutions to economic and conservation challenges faced by communities in Maine, New England, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit web.colby.edu/communitycultureconservation/
Noted writers, scholars, artists, public officials, and community members will discuss solutions to economic and conservation challenges faced by communities in Maine, New England, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit web.colby.edu/communitycultureconservation/
In conjunction with the annual arts and humanities theme, Human/Nature, create and investigate your own living biome, a microhabitat, made from a 2-liter bottle.
Organized in conjunction with the Human/Nature humanities theme, this event will feature a screening of Christian Marclay’s Telephones (1995) and Bollywood Goes to Gstaad (2013). Steve Wurtzler, associate professor of cinema studies, will introduce Marclay’s... more >
Organized in conjunction with the 2014-2015 humanities theme of Migration, this event will feature a screening of Bollywood Goes to Gstaad (2013), a video by Christian Marclay composed of Bollywood scenes filmed in the Swiss Alps.... more >
Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the... more >
