Alex Méndez, the Colby Museum’s Linde Family Foundation Coordinator of Academic Access, shares interpretive content that she developed for Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection. Curator Beth Finch

You’re Speaking My Language: Jacob Lawrence’s The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
During the Fall 2021 semester, students in Cultural Encounters: Engaging with Literature and Media (FR128) and The Rise and Fall of Versailles (FR232), created museum labels with a focus on

Questions and Answers: Interview with Julia Arredondo
Yan Xuan, the Colby Museum’s Curatorial Intern for the 2021–2022 academic year, interviews artist Julia Arredondo, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. Xuan’s questions led Arredondo to respond with

Questions and Answers: Interview with E. Saffronia Downing
Yan Xuan, the Colby Museum’s Curatorial Intern for the 2021–2022 academic year, interviews artist E. Saffronia Downing, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. 1. Clay appears in

Artist Statements: otherwise, or temporary moves towards utopia
At the conclusion of the 2021 fall semester, the students in Gwyneth Shanks’s course, Performing the Museum, staged a performance exhibition entitled otherwise, or temporary moves towards utopia at the Colby

Recoloring Wrong and Right
Two paintings by Bob Thompson, both entitled The Struggle, are catalysts for Terri Nwanma ’22’s examination of prison abolition. Nwanma interrogates this concept through poetry and essayistic writing. A sip

Julia Arredondo’s ‘QTVC Live!’
Julia Arredondo, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow, shares two episodes of QTVC Live!, a DIY shopping channel that showcases underrepresented makers. Frustrated with arts institutions for continuously skirting

In the Galleries: Student Research on Bob Thompson
During the spring 2021 semester, students in Abbe Schriber’s course, African American Art, created podcasts, zines, and a website to showcase their research into Bob Thompson’s art practice. Prior

Questions and Answers: Interview with Killer Bee
Sophia Reyes, the Colby Museum’s Summer 2021 Howard A. and Gisele B. Miller Curatorial Intern, interviews musician Jose Barrionuevo, aka Killer Bee, Lunder Institute for American Art Summer ’21 Resident

Mapping Whistler’s Shopfronts: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Urban Growth in the Victorian Era
Helen Bennett ’22, Lunder Consortium for Whistler Studies summer 2021 intern, shares her research in support of “Some Old Curiosity Shops: Whistler, Commerce, and the Art of Urban Change,” slated